The Ghost Breaker (1914)

Directed by

Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille

Genre

drama film, horror film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman inherits a haunted castle in Spain. A man from America helps her uncover the secrets of the ghost that haunts it.

dramaticmysteriousold-fashionedplayfulcreepylight-hearteddatedtheatrical

What happens

The Ghost Breaker is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel and based on the 1909 Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players–Lasky banner. The Ghost Breaker was possibly the first film in a long line of haunted-house horror films with the same story. A 1922 remake of the same name starred Wallace Reid and Lila Lee. The original film was also remade as The Ghost Breakers (1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and as Scared Stiff (1953) with Martin and Lewis. The film is now considered lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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