“GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 278, 21 August 1944, Page 3

“GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE”

They’ve now teamed the Dead End Kids ■ with Dracula. This opens all sorts o£ interestingxjrossibilitles, I think: a mammoth. all-murder, all-solving thriller with the Thin Man, Ellery Queen, Sherlock Holmes, Tartu and the Falcon doing their best to cope with a townful of corpses. Or perhaps Dr. Gillespie, Henry Aldrich, Malsie and Tarzan In a dance .show with music by Cole Porter! In "Ghosts on the Loose” (De Luxe) the Dead End Kids, some of whom have left off being little horrors on the screen t.o become good boys in Uncle Sam’s Army, meet up with Bela Lugosi, who has lately shifted his location to New York, and hand him just as many surprises as he has been handing other people on the screen for several years. /Ln interesting figure in the east is Ava Gardner, wife ( or Ls it. exwife?) of Mickey Rooney. Roy Rogers and Trigger, the horse that seems to have even more horse sense than the famous animal that helped Tom Mix through 100 horse operas, gallop handsomely over the prairies in “Song of Texas,” the second film. (A Texan I knew in Wellington last year told me that he had never seen a cowboy in his life, which goes to show how the movies can influence you.) If you ask me what “Song of the Texas” is about, the best tiling I can do is refer you to half-a-hundred other Westerns, inject a few new songs, and there you have it.