Underplayed Gems

The Ghost Goes West (1935)

The Ghost Goes West poster
Directed by
René Clair
Genre
fantasy film, romantic comedy, ghost film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 18m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 38 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

An American businessman buys a Scottish castle and moves it stone by stone to Florida. The castle's ghost comes along and tries to adjust to the modern world and an American heiress.

lightheartedwhimsicalcharmingplayfuldatedmildly satiricalromantic

What happens

The Ghost Goes West is a 1935 British romantic comedy/fantasy film directed by René Clair and starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, and Eugene Pallette. It was Clair's first English-language film. The story concerns an Old World ghost dealing with American materialism. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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