Spooks Run Wild (1941)
Leo Gorcey: Muggs
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Quotes
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Muggs McGinnis : [walking through the woods] Come on, let's get out of this shell hole. I wonder if this is a cow trail or the state highway? A nice place for a picnic. If you run out of toothpicks you can use pine needles.
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Danny : Hey, Muggs.
Muggs : What?
Danny : I'm not scared or nothing like that, but... remember what we heard about that... that guy on the radio?
Muggs : So?
Danny : Well, suppose he was prowling around here. Don't you think we ought to stand guard or something?
Muggs : Nah. You just go outside and set a couple of bear traps for him.
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Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : And, uh, what'll you have?
Muggs : You.
Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : You're very fresh.
Muggs : Yeah? Well, I hope your bread is just as fresh. Say, what're you doin' tonight?
Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : Got a date.
Muggs : How about tomorrow night?
Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : I've got a date.
Muggs : How about Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday night?
Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk , Muggs : I've got a date.
Muggs : Well, that kills that week.
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Muggs McGinnis : [Glimpy slams the door as they sneak out; Muggs yells] DIDN'T I TELL YOU TO BE...
[whispers]
Muggs McGinnis : quiet?
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Radio Announcer : We interrupt this program for an important announcement to listeners near Hillside and Colton: All citizens are warned to be on the lookout for The Monster Killer, who is believed to be in this vicinity. This maniac has left a trail of three inhuman murders, and is believed heading upstate. We return you now to your program.
Muggs McGinnis : Monsters? That don't mean nothing to us. We eat 'em every morning for breakfast.
Glimpy : Bring those monsters on. I ain't ascared of them. I'm anemic. I was taken for a ride once.
Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : You were?
Glimpy : Yeah. There I was, miles from Time Square - somewhere in Central Park I think - and them gangsters, they had me backed against a tree, and they got machine guns, see, and they went...
[makes machine gun noises]
Glimpy : And what do you think happened?
Margie - Sweet Shop Clerk : I don't know. What happened?
Muggs McGinnis , Danny : He got killed.
Glimpy : Fantastic, wasn't it?
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Muggs McGinnis : What're you looking for?
Danny : Remember what we heard on the radio about that... that, that ghoul, that guy that sucks all the blood out of ya?
Muggs McGinnis : What would he be doin' out here, suckin' the sap out of the trees?
Glimpy : Hey, does the guy really suck all the blood out of ya?
Danny : Yeah!
Glimpy : Well, I got nothin' to worry about, 'cause the mosquitoes got all mine. Ow!
[slaps neck]
Glimpy : That was a Messerschmitt.
Danny : Hey, what if he really was out here?
Muggs McGinnis : What if you was back home?
Danny : Yeah?
Muggs McGinnis : Your old man 'ould give you a hit in the head like dat.
[smacks Danny in the head]
Danny : I ain't got an old man.
[smacks Muggs back]
Glimpy : The kid's an orphan.
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Glimpy : [after Muggs jumps up from the table] What's the matter?
Muggs : There's a-a-a skeleton in there! He-he was laughing right in my face!
Glimpy : Yeah? What's he so happy about?
[looks in jar]
Glimpy : A skull!
Muggs : [to the others] Go ahead, go ahead, look, look for yourselves, go on! Go on!
[everybody huddles around and sees nothing in the jar]
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Nardo : Good evening. I must apologize for the state of my home. It has been without occupants for many years.
Muggs : Well-well, look, our buddy here's been hoit. We was goin' t'rough the cemetery taking a shortcut to town and somebody took a potshot at him.
Nardo : How unfortunate. He should lie down.
Muggs : Don't ya... think we oughta get a doctor?
Nardo : Perhaps later. Come with me.
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Muggs : Hey, this looks like a place where the plot begins to thicken. Let's take a look and make sure.
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Muggs : Hey, I can see my date with Margie's gonna be as private as an Atlanta Street fish market on Friday.