Ghosts on the Loose (1943)

Leo Gorcey: Mugs McGinnis

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Quotes 

• Mugs : [to the quartet]  And don't forget your crescendos and dim-u-endos. And I don't want no altercations in the lyrics.

• Mugs : I'm gonna send you to an optimist and have your eyes examined.

• Mugs : [reading the card on the wreath of flowers the boys brought in]  "In loving memory to Louie the Lug from the gang. We didn't mean to shoot you, Louie, honest." Where did you get that?

  Stash : W-w-w on a street.

  Scruno : Yeah, o-on a truck.

  Benny : It fell off.

  Mugs : You know that's sacrelirious?

  Scruno : No kiddin'?

  Mugs : Take it back! You guys think I've no conscience. Can you imagine a thing like...? Hey, wait a minute. Come here. I don't suppose it would be any more sacrelirious if we brought it back AFTER the weddin'. Put it in the parlor.

• Jack : [dejected, sitting on a coach next to Betty, in a quarantined room, surrounded by the East Side Kids]  What a honeymoon.

  Mugs : [to Glimpy]  Y'always gotta do everything the hard way. Everybody else gets plain, ordinary, common measles. So, you gotta go out and dig up German measles.

  [Glimpy's face is covered in Swastikas] 

  Glimpy : Who are you pickin' on me for? Did I know dem guys were Nazis?

• Mugs : You two fellas start to put up the wallpaper over dere, and Rocky and Danny you put up the coitains and drapes - and get 'em nice and cylindrical.

• Mugs : There's a lot o' intimidatin' evidence in that house.

• Mugs : You really think the place looks pretty nice, huh?

  Jack : Oh, it's fine, Mugs.

  Glimpy : Yeah. It could look better with some of them pictures on the wall, those, uh, paintings, those moralls.

  Mugs : Not moralls, morales!

  Jack : Look, uh, you guys mean, uh, murals?

  Mugs : Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. He threw me off, you know. He's dumb sometimes.

• Mugs : Come back here! Ain't you got no ingénue-ity?

• [the boys are scared of a disembodied voice in a dark house bent on repeating what they say] 

  Mugs : What's a matter wid you? Dat's just an echo.

  Bruno : [a voice]  Just an echo.

  Mugs : See dat? What I tell ya? Dere's nuttin' to be scared of.

  Emil : [a second voice]  That's what YOU think.

• Mugs : Now, hit that last note.

  [Stash smacks the score] 

  Mugs : What're you doin'?

  Stash : You told me to hit it.

  [Mugs rears back his fist to punch him] 

  Stash : You'll go to jail. I'm a minor.

  Danny : Get him a pick and send him home.

  Mugs : I'll give ya a pick in the head.

• Mugs : Well, can you picture dat? I must be havin' optical delusions.

  Lieutenant : What's the matter?

  Mugs : Well, there was a printin' press here ten minutes ago.

  Lieutenant : Ah, just got up and walked away, eh?

  Glimpy : Well, if ink can run, I guess a printing press can walk.

• Mugs : Wow, this is really nice! Lamps, drapes, books, everything. I wonder why he bought that old house next door instead of this one?

  Glimpy : I guess there wasn't enough room in the yard for a Victory Garden.

• Mugs : Why don't you use some diplomacy?

  Glimpy : I got my diploma. I graduated from school.

  Mugs : What did you graduate? Kindergarten?

  Glimpy : Oh, I skipped Kindergarten. I was too old.

• Mugs : What's goin' on around here? You goin' goofy too? Don't answer that! Just go over and lie down next to Scruno.

• Mugs : Who's alive?

  Scruno : Him. Him. Up there!

  Mugs : In the first place, it's not a him, it's a her.

  Scruno : Please believe me, her was a him a minute ago.

• Mugs : The best idea you can get is not to *get* any more ideas!

• Mugs : Well, they ought to be here any minute.

  Glimpy : Who?

  Mugs : Oh, he's on first.

• Mugs : [to Jack]  We was decoratin' that house.

  Glimpy : Yeah, we thought it was yours.

  Mugs : We found a printin' press with a lot of Nazi propaganda.

  Glimpy : Yeah, we thought it was yours.

  Mugs : So, we moved it over here.

  Glimpy : Yeah, then we found out that was yours.

  Mugs : So, we moved it back again.

  Jack : Nazi propaganda?

  Mugs : Sure!

  Jack : So, that's why they didn't want us to come out here. Why didn't you call the police?

  Glimpy : We thought it was yours!

  Jack : Is there a phone next door?

  Mugs : Yeah, but that ain't yours.

• Mugs : Remind me when we get back to town to give you the Iron Cross for bravery - right over the skull.

• Mugs : Rocky, M.F. - that's for you.

  Dave (Rocky) : M.F.? What does that mean?

  Mugs : Well, I don't know. Look, it says M.F. here. What do I know from those Latin abbreviations.

• Mugs : Stop actin' like a a couple-a hysterical dames.

• Mugs : One o'clock.

  Scruno : And all *ain't* well. No how!