The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)

Director
Lew Landers

Main cast
Boris Karloff; Peter Lorre; Maxie Rosenbloom; Jeff Donnell; Larry Parks

Genres
Comedy, Horror

Description
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.


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