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The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers (1940)

June. 21,1940

| Horror Comedy Mystery

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

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Cast

Bob Hope as Larry Lawrence

[2003] Christmas in Hollywood [1994] That Little Monster [1994] Liberation [1969] How to Commit Marriage [1968] The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell [1966] Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

Paulette Goddard as Mary Carter

[1988] The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind [1953] Vice Squad [1950] The Torch [1948] On Our Merry Way [1947] Unconquered [1946] The Diary of a Chambermaid

Richard Carlson as Geoff Montgomery

[1969] The Valley of Gwangi [1968] The Power [1966] Kid Rodelo [1960] Tormented [1958] Mackenzie's Raiders [1958] The Unchained Goddess

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Reviews

ChanBot

1940/06/21

i must have seen a different film!!

Executscan

1940/06/22

Expected more

Kaydan Christian

1940/06/23

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Philippa

1940/06/24

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.