Ghosts on the Loose

Ghosts on the Loose
Directed by	William Beaudine
Produced by	Jack Dietz (producer) Sam Katzman (producer) Barney A. Sarecky (associate producer)
Written by	Kenneth Higgins (original screenplay)
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Mack Stengler
Editing by	Carl Pierson
Studio	Monogram Pictures
Release date(s)	1943 (1943)
Running time	67 minutes (DVD) 65 minutes (copyright length)
Country	United States
Language	English

Ghosts on the Loose is a 1943 American film and the fourteenth film in the East Side Kids series, directed by William Beaudine.

The film was released in the United Kingdom as Ghosts in the Night.

Cast

The East Side Kids:

• Leo Gorcey as Mugs
• Huntz Hall as Glimpy
• Bobby Jordan as Danny
• Ernest Morrison as Scruno
• Billy Benedict as Benny (a.k.a. Skinny)
• Stanley Clements as Stash
• Bobby Stone as Dave (a.k.a. Rocky)
• Bill Bates as Sleepy (a.k.a. Dave)

Additional Cast:

• Bela Lugosi as Emil
• Ava Gardner as Betty
• Rick Vallin as Jack
• Minerva Urecal as Hilda
• Wheeler Oakman as Tony
• Peter Seal as Bruno
• Frank Moran as Monk
• Jack Mulhall as Lieutenant

Production

• Later on in the film, when The East Side Kids, Rick Vallin, and Ava Gardner are waiting for the cops, Muggs says, "They should be here any minute". Glimpy responds by saying, "Who?", to which Muggs says, "Oh, he's on first". This is an obvious reference to the vaudeville routine Who's on First, made famous during this period by Abbott and Costello.

• Bill Bates' only East Side Kids film.

• Last official East Side Kids film for Bobby Jordan (Danny), "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison (Scruno), and Stanley Clements (Stash). Jordan would later make a guest appearance as himself in the East Side Kids film Bowery Champs, and would eventually rejoin the group for the first eight films in the series The Bowery Boys. Morrison would return briefly as 'Scruno' in Follow the Leader (his scenes were actually unused footage from a previous East Side Kids film). Clements would not work with the boys again until 1956, when he was brought in to replace Leo Gorcey as the leader of The Bowery Boys.

Soundtrack

• Bill Bates and sung by The East Side Kids - "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" (Music by R. Melish, lyrics (poem "To Celia" by Ben Jonson)
• Bill Bates - "Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride)" from Lohengrin (Written by Richard Wagner)
• Bill Bates - "The Wedding March" from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61" (Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy)

External links

• Ghosts on the Loose at the Internet Movie Database
• Ghosts on the Loose is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]