# Spooks Run Wild

Spooks Run Wild is a 1941 film about a group of boys at a camp who encounter mysterious activities.
    Directed by Phil Rosen. Written by Carl Foreman and Charles R. Marion.

## Dialogue

    Radio Announcer: We interrupt this program for an important announcement to listeners near Hillside and Colton: All citizens are warned to be on the lookout for The Monster Killer, who is believed to be in this vicinity. This maniac has left a trail of three inhuman murders, and is believed heading upstate. We return you now to your program.
    Muggs: Monsters? That don't mean nothing to us. We eat 'em every morning for breakfast.
    Glimpy: Bring those monsters on. I ain't ascared of them. I'm anemic. I was taken for a ride once.
    Margie: You were?
    Glimpy: Yeah. There I was, miles from Time Square - somewhere in Central Park I think - and them gangsters, they had me backed against a tree, and they got machine guns, see, and they went... [makes machine gun noises] And what do you think happened?
    Margie: I don't know. What happened?
    Muggs and Danny: He got killed.
    Glimpy: Fantastic, wasn't it?
    Muggs: What're you looking for?
    Danny: Remember what we heard on the radio about that... that, that ghoul, that guy that sucks all the blood out of ya?
    Muggs: What would he be doin' out here, suckin' the sap out of the trees?
    Glimpy: Hey, does the guy really suck all the blood out of ya?
    Danny: Yeah!
    Glimpy: Well, I got nothin' to worry about, 'cause the mosquitoes got all mine. Ow!
    [slaps neck]
    Glimpy: That was a Messerschmitt.
    Danny: Hey, what if he really was out here?
    Muggs: What if you was back home?
    Danny: Yeah?
    Muggs: Your old man 'ould give you a hit in the head like dat.
    [smacks Danny in the head]
    Danny: I ain't got an old man.
    [smacks Muggs back]
    Glimpy: The kid's an orphan.
    Muggs: I'm going alone.
    Danny: That makes three of us going alone.
    Danny: How can you read in the dark?
    Glimpy: What'd you say?
    Danny: I said how can you read in the dark?
    Glimpy: I went to night school.
    Glimpy: You know, I milked a cow once. A very intricate affair. You see, a cow's got four faucets.
    Danny: What for?
    Glimpy: Well, the first faucet is for buttermilk, the second for bottled milk, and the third is for evaporated milk.
    Danny: What's the fourth one for?
    Glimpy: Come to think of it, this cow only had t'ree.
    Danny: I don't like that guy's al'itude.
    Muggs: Me, neidder. If anybody thinks I'm gonna stay up here and associate with him and all these cows and chickens, they're crazy.
    Danny: Hey, Muggs.
    Muggs: What?
    Danny: I'm not scared or nothing like that, but... remember what we heard about that... that guy on the radio?
    Muggs: So?
    Danny: Well, suppose he was prowling around here. Don't you think we ought to stand guard or something?
    Muggs: Nah. You just go outside and set a couple of bear traps for him.
    [an apparition confronts Nardo]
    Apparition: So, you couldn't stay away, could you? The criminal always returns to the scene of the crime.
    Nardo: Who... who are you?
    Apparition: You don't remember me, but twenty years ago in this very house I was a livin' being. I had flesh on my bones, blood flowed through my veins, but you... you... you scared the health out of me.
    Nardo: I was never in this house until tonight. You have made a mistake!
    Apparition: It is YOU who has made the mistake, my friend. For years you have wantonly taken the lives of millions; so, tonight I am going to take yours.
    [laughs maniacally]

## Cast

* Bela Lugosi — Nardo
* Leo Gorcey — Muggs
* Bobby Jordan — Danny
* Huntz Hall — Glimpy
* Sunshine Sammy Morrison — Scruno
* David Gorcey — Peewee
* Donald Haines — Skinny
* Dave O'Brien — Jeff Dixon
* Dorothy Short — Linda Mason
* Dennis Moore — Dr. Van Grosch
* P.J. Kelly — Lem Harvey
* Angelo Rossitto — Luigi
* Guy Wilkerson — Constable Jim

## External links

* Spooks Run Wild quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Spooks Run Wild at Allmovie