Underplayed Gems

The Ghost Breaker (1922)

The Ghost Breaker poster
Directed by
Alfred Edward Green
Genre
comedy horror, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
57 min
Rated
NR
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A man must clear a ghost from a haunted house and deal with spooky happenings. It is a silent comedy horror film based on an old play.

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What happens

The Ghost Breaker is a 1922 American silent horror comedy film about haunted houses and ghosts. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Alfred E. Green and starred Wallace Reid in one of his last screen roles. The story, based on the 1909 play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, had been released on film in 1914 (bearing the same name), directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. Two of the actors in this film, Snitz Edwards and Arthur Edmund Carewe, later appeared together in the 1925 Lon Chaney silent classic The Phantom of the Opera. Two uncredited "ghosts" in the cast, Mervyn LeRoy and Richard Arlen, later went on to successful film careers. The Ghost Breaker would be remade in the sound era as The Ghost Breakers (1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and later as Scared Stiff (1953) starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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