The Boogie Man Will Get You

Jeff Donnell's Winnie slips and calls Peter Lorre "Professor Lorre", not Lorenz, and it remains in the film.

A young divorcée (Jeff Donnell) tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.Apparently this film was an attempt to cash in on the success of "Arsenic and Old Lace", and if that is true, it shows.

Lew Landers directs Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre as two daffy doctors. Boris plays Professor Billings, whose scientific experiments have left the cellar filled with the bodies of traveling salesmen, Peter Lorre plays both a quack doctor and the sheriff, determined to find out what's going on.

(Miss) Jeff Donnell (yes, that's how she's billed) plays a woman who loves the charm of anything antique and buys a rundown old inn to renovate, much to the dismay of her ex-husband, Larry Parks. These two are fine in their roles as the squabbling exes, but honestly those parts are secondary to the real stars of the picture, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.

Well--as big a fan as I am of Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre--this was one of their few features that I had never seen, until getting Karloff's "Icons of Horror Collection." Anything featuring Karloff and Lorre together has promise, so this was the first feature I viewed & I can say despite the mixed reviews here, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Peter Lorre (Dr. Arthur Lorencz) and Boris Karloff (Prof.

The Boogie Man Will Get You was the last of Karloff's "Mad Doctor" series for Columbia Pictures. Played strictly for laughs (although to be honest there are very few of them) Karloff teams up with Peter Lorre to create an electrical Superman capable of winning World War II.

Mainly viewable for fine work by Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre (in charming, comedic-style roles) and an outstanding performance by the talented miss Jeff Donnell. I wish Donnell's work could become more widely known, she was outstanding in a number of obscure and little-seen films like this one.

Horror King Boris Karloff seems to be having a good time here spoofing his own mad doctor image in this light-hearted black comedy which was probably inspired by ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. As a kindly (but naive) old inventor, the wacky Karloff wants to "aid the war effort" by creating his own homegrown superman.

My husband and I watched this while in a vacation rental with four other relatives - we did not have streaming available, and it was either this or some early Stooges shorts. Should have gone with the Stooges!!!