Spooks Run Wild
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| Directed by | Phil Rosen |
| Produced by | Sam Katzman |
| Written by | Carl Foreman Charles R. Marion |
| Starring | Bela Lugosi Leo Gorcey Huntz Hall |
| Music by | Johnny Lange Lew Porter |
| Cinematography | Marcel Le Picard |
| Editing by | Robert Golden |
| Distributed by | Monogram Pictures Corporation |
| Release date(s) | October 24, 1941 (USA) |
| Running time | 65 mins. |
| Preceded by | Bowery Blitzkrieg |
| Followed by | Mr. Wise Guy |
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Spooks Run Wild is a 1941 film and the seventh film in the East Side Kids series, starring Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Bobby Jordan. Released in 1941, it was directed by Phil Rosen, in his first and only outing in the series, and produced by Sam Katzman (under the company name Banner Pictures). It is based on an original script by Carl Foreman and Charles R. Marion.
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Since the series inception in 1940, the East Side Kids films had been, for the most part, a well balanced mix between comedy, drama, and social relevance. Following Huntz Hall's introduction into the series with 1941's Bowery Blitzkrieg, which made famous the Gorcey/Hall banter, producer Sam Katzman decided that the seventh film in the series would not only be a change of pace, but, would also be one of the biggest East Side Kids extravaganzas yet.
With that in mind, Katzman enlisted the screen writing team of Carl Foreman and Charles R. Marion to pen the screenplay, which would feature Monogram's two most popular draws for the first time together on screen: Bela Lugosi and the East Side Kids.
At the last minute, with Bowery Blitzkrieg director Wallace Fox already attached to Columbia's The Lone Star Vigilantes, Katzman hired Russian-born director Phil Rosen, who had just finished filming Monogram's "The Deadly Game" to helm the production.
Ghosts in the Night began filming in Early August 1941, around the same time as Bowery Blitzkrieg was making its way into theatres. By the time filming wrapped only a week and half later, the film's working title was changed to Spooks Run Wild and hit theaters on October 24, 1941, just in time for Halloween.
