Monday 18 July 2005

Ghosts on the Loose (1943)

I watched this film because it was there and that's 66 minutes gone forever.  After their featured parts in "Dead End" and "Angels with Dirty Faces", a whole series of films were made with the Dead End Kids, here called the East Side Kids -- and goodness only knows why, since all of them were pretty pathetic.  Here they expose a group of Nazi sympathisers led by that well-known Nazi, Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi).  The hook for getting this movie seen by modern audiences is that it features Ava Gardner in an early ingenue role which you wouldn't even have noticed if you weren't told it was she.  And by the way, there are no ghosts.

 

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