ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Most of the science fiction films from the 1940s were melancholy and somber, but this is a wild black comedy in which Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre poke fun at their own traditional screen personas.

At the time the film was made, Karloff had just completed a successful Broadway run of "Arsenic and Old Lace". The producers of "The Boogie Man Will Get You" wanted to take advantage of the public's new awareness of Karloff's ability to do black comedy.

Eccentric scientist Karloff is conducting strange experiments in the basement of an old colonial inn. The goal of the experiments is to develop a process that will turn ordinary men into supermen who can help win World War II. Numerous bodies in suspended animation lie around the lab.

His partner is Peter Lorre, an amazing jack-of-all-trades: doctor, real estate agent, local sheriff, financier. Karloff and Lorre persuade a naive salesman played by Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom -- (Ha! I'll bet you giggled when you read that name. I giggled when I typed it. ) -- to serve as their next subject.

The owners of the inn stumble onto the seemingly dead bodies in the lab, and they call the cops. The cops, in turn, stumble onto Karloff and Lorre while they are being threatened by a "human bomb" in the person of Frank Puglia, a fascist who demands the secret of the superman process so the enemies of democracy can use it.

The cops send the whole mob off to the loony bin!

Directed by Lew Landers.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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I am delighted to report that the link below has provided me with a high quality download of this movie, using SaveFrom.net (the DailyMotion version), and I'm looking forward to watching it during one of All Sci-Fi's Friday Live Chats whenever our Creature Feature Selection Committee decides to schedule it.

This movie looks like a helluva lot of fun!

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_____________Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)