Haunted Spooks (1920)

Directed by

Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach

Genre

comedy horror, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

25 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman must be married to inherit a mansion and plantation. She quickly marries a stranger and they travel to the estate, where her uncle fakes ghostly apparitions to scare them off and claim the inheritance for himself.

playfullightheartedslapstickwhimsicalspooky without being scaryfast-pacedcomedicold-fashioned

What happens

Haunted Spooks is a 1920 American silent comedy horror film, produced and co-directed by Hal Roach, starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis. The short film has a comedic version of a typical haunted house tale, and a dispute over a family's inheritance. A young woman is the heiress to a mansion and a plantation, but only if she is married. She quickly enters an arranged marriage with a stranger, and they travel to the mansion. Her uncle fakes ghostly apparitions, in order to scare them away and lay claim to the inheritance. At the end of the film, the husband and wife remember to enquire about their respective names. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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