The evening's entertainment returned us to East Side Kid territory with Spooks Run Wild (1941). We seem to have, unintentionally, watched these East Side Kids epics in order of their production. This film includes the Kids' legendary first meeting with Bela Lugosi, making it a Poverty Row Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), although, since that Universal production came seven years after this Monogram Pictures one, the big studio must have stolen the idea from the minor... Once again, Ernest "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison stole the show as far as I am concerned, yet he was relegated to an even smaller role in the group's hierarchy than he was in the previous film. Huntz Hall was clearly being groomed as an equal to Leo Gorcey. But it's Morrison that was the funniest. You can even see Lugosi struggling to keep from cracking up when Morrison does an especially funny "scared" bit and runs off. One wonders what was going on, that this guy-- the funniest of the gang-- was being pushed off to the background. Racism would be the obvious answer, though one would hope the answer isn't that obvious... You can view it online for free at the Internet Archive.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Spent the morning Boobpedia session (which usually runs about 20-30 minutes) finding more screenshots for the Boin Box series. I finished adding Amazon numbers to the series data during my afternoon BP session (usually 30-45 minutes) and started adding new info on entries to the Big Boobs, Bomber Boobs series.
The evening's entertainment returned us to East Side Kid territory with Spooks Run Wild (1941). We seem to have, unintentionally, watched these East Side Kids epics in order of their production. This film includes the Kids' legendary first meeting with Bela Lugosi, making it a Poverty Row Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), although, since that Universal production came seven years after this Monogram Pictures one, the big studio must have stolen the idea from the minor... Once again, Ernest "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison stole the show as far as I am concerned, yet he was relegated to an even smaller role in the group's hierarchy than he was in the previous film. Huntz Hall was clearly being groomed as an equal to Leo Gorcey. But it's Morrison that was the funniest. You can even see Lugosi struggling to keep from cracking up when Morrison does an especially funny "scared" bit and runs off. One wonders what was going on, that this guy-- the funniest of the gang-- was being pushed off to the background. Racism would be the obvious answer, though one would hope the answer isn't that obvious... You can view it online for free at the Internet Archive.
The evening's entertainment returned us to East Side Kid territory with Spooks Run Wild (1941). We seem to have, unintentionally, watched these East Side Kids epics in order of their production. This film includes the Kids' legendary first meeting with Bela Lugosi, making it a Poverty Row Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), although, since that Universal production came seven years after this Monogram Pictures one, the big studio must have stolen the idea from the minor... Once again, Ernest "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison stole the show as far as I am concerned, yet he was relegated to an even smaller role in the group's hierarchy than he was in the previous film. Huntz Hall was clearly being groomed as an equal to Leo Gorcey. But it's Morrison that was the funniest. You can even see Lugosi struggling to keep from cracking up when Morrison does an especially funny "scared" bit and runs off. One wonders what was going on, that this guy-- the funniest of the gang-- was being pushed off to the background. Racism would be the obvious answer, though one would hope the answer isn't that obvious... You can view it online for free at the Internet Archive.
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