The Boogie Man Will Get You

The Boogie Man Will Get You
Directed by	Lew Landers
Produced by	Colbert Clark
Written by	Hal Fimberg Robert B. Hunt Edwin Blum Paul Gangelin
Starring	Boris Karloff Peter Lorre
Cinematography	Henry Freulich
Editing by	Richard Fantl
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	22 October 1942
Running time	66 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Boogie Man Will Get You is a 1942 comedy horror film, directed by Lew Landers and starring Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. One of six pictures Karloff made with Columbia. he filmed it in the wake of his success in the stage version of Arsenic and Old Lace.

Plot

Willful Winnie Slade (Jeff Donnell) purchases the home of kindly Prof. Billings (Boris Karloff) with a view to turning it into a hotel, not knowing that the scientist has been working in the basement to create a race of superbeings to help the war effort and intends to use prospective guests in his experiments--unfortunately so, given that his work has seemingly killed a number of test subjects already. Peter Lorre plays the town mayor/sheriff/hair tonic salesman Dr. Lorentz, who becomes involved in the professor's work when he sees the potential for profit, while Larry Parks is Winnie's long-suffering love interest, Bill.

Cast

• Boris Karloff as Prof. Nathaniel Billings
• Peter Lorre as Dr. Lorentz
• "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom as Maxie, the Powder Puff Salesman
• Larry Parks as Bill Layden
• Miss Jeff Donnell as Winnie Slade (as Miss Jeff Donnell)
• Maude Eburne as Amelia Jones
• Don Beddoe as J. Gilbert Brampton
• George McKay as Ebenezer
• Frank Puglia as Silvio Bacigalupi, the Italian Escaped-POW
• Eddie Laughton as Mr. Johnson
• Frank Sully as Police Officer Starrett
• James Morton as Trooper Frank Quincy
• Frank Mitchell as Jo-Jo, the Human Bomb

See also

• List of American films of 1942
• Boris Karloff filmography

External links

• The Boogie Man Will Get You at the Internet Movie Database
• The Boogie Man Will Get You at AllRovi