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Spooks Run Wild
Spooks Run Wild is an American horror comedy 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.
Plot.
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The contemporaneous events of World War II affected the series as well as the cast. In 1943 Béla Lugosi (who was in "Spooks Run Wild") returned as a Nazi saboteur in the incongruously-titled "Ghosts on the Loose" which also featured a young Ava Gardner; a German-Japanese spy ring was thwarted in the blatantly patriotic "Let's Get Tough!" from 1942 (with Gabriel Dell, of all people, as a Nazi spy). At the