# Ghosts on the Loose

Ghosts on the Loose (known as Ghosts in the Night in the UK) is a 1943 film about the East Side Kids who try to fix up a haunted house.
    Directed by William Beaudine. Written by Kenneth Higgins.

## Mugs

* I'm gonna send you to an optimist and have your eyes examined.
* You two fellas start to put up the wallpaper over dere, and Rocky and Danny you put up the coitains and drapes - and get 'em nice and cylindrical.
* There's a lot o' intimidatin' evidence in that house.
* The best idea you can get is not to get any more ideas!
* Remind me when we get back to town to give you the Iron Cross for bravery - right over the skull.

## Glimpy

* Hey, Mugs, why can't I sing in dat quartet? I used to sing in a quartet wit' six members. I can sing those fortissimos aloud too.

## Dialogue

    Mugs: [reading the card on the wreath of flowers the boys brought in] "In loving memory to Louie the Lug from the gang. We didn't mean to shoot you, Louie, honest." Where did you get that?
    Stash: W-w-w on a street.
    Scruno: Yeah, o-on a truck.
    Benny: It fell off.
    Mugs: You know that's sacrelirious?
    Scruno: No kiddin'?
    Mugs: Take it back! You guys think I've no conscience. Can you imagine a thing like...? Hey, wait a minute. Come here. I don't suppose it would be any more sacrelirious if we brought it back AFTER the weddin'. Put it in the parlor.
    Jack: [dejected, sitting on a coach next to Betty, in a quarantined room, surrounded by the East Side Kids] What a honeymoon.
    Mugs: [to Glimpy] Y'always gotta do everything the hard way. Everybody else gets plain, ordinary, common measles. So, you gotta go out and dig up German measles.
    [Glimpy's face is covered in Swastikas]
    Glimpy: Who are you pickin' on me for? Did I know dem guys were Nazis?
    Mugs: You really think the place looks pretty nice, huh?
    Jack: Oh, it's fine, Mugs.
    Glimpy: Yeah. It could look better with some of them pictures on the wall, those, uh, paintings, those moralls.
    Mugs: Not moralls, morales!
    Jack: Look, uh, you guys mean, uh, murals?
    Mugs: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. He threw me off, you know. He's dumb sometimes.
    Mugs: What's a matter wid you? Dat's just an echo.
    Bruno: [a voice] Just an echo.
    Mugs: See dat? What I tell ya? Dere's nuttin' to be scared of.
    Emil: [a second voice] That's what YOU think.
    Mugs: Well, can you picture dat? I must be havin' optical delusions.
    Lieutenant: What's the matter?
    Mugs: Well, there was a printin' press here ten minutes ago.
    Lieutenant: Ah, just got up and walked away, eh?
    Glimpy: Well, if ink can run, I guess a printing press can walk.
    Mugs: Wow, this is really nice! Lamps, drapes, books, everything. I wonder why he bought that old house next door instead of this one?
    Glimpy: I guess there wasn't enough room in the yard for a Victory Garden.
    Mugs: Why don't you use some diplomacy?
    Glimpy: I got my diploma. I graduated from school.
    Mugs: What did you graduate? Kindergarten?
    Glimpy: Oh, I skipped Kindergarten. I was too old.
    Mugs: [to Jack] We was decoratin' that house.
    Glimpy: Yeah, we thought it was yours.
    Mugs: We found a printin' press with a lot of Nazi propaganda.
    Glimpy: Yeah, we thought it was yours.
    Mugs: So, we moved it over here.
    Glimpy: Yeah, then we found out that was yours.
    Mugs: So, we moved it back again.
    Jack: Nazi propaganda?
    Mugs: Sure!
    Jack: So, that's why they didn't want us to come out here. Why didn't you call the police?
    Glimpy: We thought it was yours!
    Jack: Is there a phone next door?
    Mugs: Yeah, but that ain't yours.

## Taglines

* You'll yell with glee when these happy-go-lucky hooligans invade the shivery domain of the Man of a Thousand Horrors! It's Chill-arious!
* The EAST SIDE KIDS vs. the Man of a THOUSAND HORRORS!

## Cast

* Leo Gorcey — Mugs
* Huntz Hall — Glimpy
* Bela Lugosi — Emil
* Ava Gardner — Betty
* Rick Vallin — Jack
* Bobby Jordan — Danny
* Sammy Morrison — Scruno
* Billy Benedict — Benny (a.k.a. Skinny)
* Stanley Clements — Stash
* Minerva Urecal — Hilda
* Wheeler Oakman — Tony

## External links

* Ghosts on the Loose quotes at the Internet Movie Database