The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) | |
| Director(s) | Lew Landers |
| Producer(s) | Colbert Clark |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Horror |
| Top Topics | |
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The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942) was a Comedy - Horror Film directed by Lew Landers and produced by Colbert Clark.
SYNOPSIS
Winnie Slade and Bill Leyden purchase a creepy old New England hotel from the crazed Professor Nathaniel Billings. The hotel is already peopled by eccentrics, with the basement converted into a laboratory for Billings's experiments. When Winnie and Bill discover corpses littering their new purchase, they call in local sheriff Dr. Lorenz to investigate.
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Dr. Lorenz:
And if you ever need anything, like medical attention, or fire insurance, or a marriage performed, or a loan, perhaps? I should be delighted to oblige.
Winnie Slade: Doesn't anybody else do anything in Jinxville?
Dr. Lorenz: Oh, they... they vote once a year.
Dr. Lorenz: If he is a choreographer, then I am Pavlova.
Dr. Lorenz: Do you imagine I could take advantage, exploit, capitalize on a great scientific discovery? Cheat millions of people all the world over? Profane my profession? Suppose I make a few dollars, don't you think I wouldn't put it right back into science?
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Winnie Slade: Doesn't anybody else do anything in Jinxville?
Dr. Lorenz: Oh, they... they vote once a year.
Dr. Lorenz: If he is a choreographer, then I am Pavlova.
Dr. Lorenz: Do you imagine I could take advantage, exploit, capitalize on a great scientific discovery? Cheat millions of people all the world over? Profane my profession? Suppose I make a few dollars, don't you think I wouldn't put it right back into science?
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This is the second of four film teamings of Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre, all of them comedies. Others were You'll Find Out, The Raven and The Comedy of Terrors.
The plot of this film has strong similarities to Arsenic and Old Lace, in which both Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre were previously associated - Karloff appeared in the theatrical original (and at least three television adaptations) while Lorre co-starred in the film version.
Part of the SON OF SHOCK package of 21 titles released to television in 1958, which followed the original SHOCK THEATER release of 52 features one year earlier. This was also one of the 12 Columbia titles, the other 61 all being Universals.
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The plot of this film has strong similarities to Arsenic and Old Lace, in which both Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre were previously associated - Karloff appeared in the theatrical original (and at least three television adaptations) while Lorre co-starred in the film version.
Part of the SON OF SHOCK package of 21 titles released to television in 1958, which followed the original SHOCK THEATER release of 52 features one year earlier. This was also one of the 12 Columbia titles, the other 61 all being Universals.
read more facts about The Boogie Man Will Get You...
