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The Boogie Man Will Get You Overview:

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: 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?
Dr. Lorenz: [Referring to Bill Leyden] ... if the army didn't need him, I would have commmitted him to the squirrel pen at Idlewild Sanitarium, so help me!
Prof. Nathaniel Billings: Amelia, this riffraff, as you call him, is really the salt of the earth. All he needs is to be iodized.
Prof. Nathaniel Billings: [Enthusiastically] I have very good news for you, Doctor!
Dr. Lorenz: Really?
Prof. Nathaniel Billings: Now, guess what!
Dr. Lorenz: [Annoyed] I don't know!
Prof. Nathaniel Billings: [With continued enthusiasm] Go ahead - guess
Dr. Lorenz: [Angrily] D-Do I look like a quiz kid?
Dr. Lorenz: If he is a choreographer, then I am Pavlova.
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The Boogie Man Will Get You Facts
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.
Shooting lasted July 7-21 1942, released October 22. This completed Boris Karloff's six-picture contract with Columbia.
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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