The Living Ghost (1942)

Wonderful Movie

Awesome Movie

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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.

***SPOILERS*** It's after banker Walter Craig, Gus Glassmire, disappeared from his house his family through his private secretary Billie Hilton, Joan Woodbury, sought out retired ace detective Nick Trayne, James Dunn, to track him down. It wasn't long that at the Craig Mansion Craig showed up in a what looked like a zobified state with no memory at all. What had happened which was explained to Trayne by neurologist Dr. Bruhling, Lawrence Grant, is that someone had through the use of powerful drugs frozen a portion of Craig's brain leaving him totally helpless to think for himself! The person who in fact did that was doing the thinking for him which had Mr. Craig attempt to murder, with little success, those he was directed to murder by the person controlling his brain. As it later turned out Craig was unable to do any of the killing attributed to him. It was in fact those who put him in that vegetated state of mind who did the killings and had him, a totally brainless and helpless person, blamed for it!It was Trayne and Billie Hilton who found out that a Dr. Carson was responsible for Craig's condition but as it later turned out Dr. Carson was just an alias for the person who was really carrying out these killings. And it was now up to them to find expose and have arrested the person responsible for the murder of George Phillips, J. Arthur Young, the only person who can identify him. The late Mr. Phillips almost by accident came upon his soon to be murderer and was murdered by him for finding him out.***SPOILERS*** With only the killer's voice being able to expose him Trayne plans to trick, if you can call it that, him to speak into a 1940's vintage disk recorder and have the person whom he talked to on the phone, to rent this dilapidated house to use as his private sanitarium, who's the only one who can identify him. Feeling he has to murder Trayne to save himself this all backfires on the killer in Trayne having already figured out who he is. He, the killer, should have tried to murder the person who rented him the sanitarium not Trayne who was the only person who could identify his voice! Or in his, the killers, obviously confused state of mind never for once thought of doing it!

Day 7 The Living Ghost (1942) This movie also know as Lend Me Your Ear (1942), it sound Like something I would really enjoy.I saw this late last nigh, it was not long movie at all, this movie was more of Mystery then horror movie. The whole movie was about find out who the killer and attack was, there no really creepy or intense moment in this movie. I did like it, when one people who have been attacked, start to act like Zombie at times , really enjoyed those scenes. With any really scary or creepy, you think I will not like but, I did as love those Mystery stories, if any show dose, who done it! , I would watch it even If I have never seen show before or been a few years since the last time I seen the show. Back to the movie, I had no idea who the killer was, I was little surprised who the killer, I didn't expect it. The were some very funny moment in this movie that will make laugh a few times, which are intended, it fitted it really well with rest of the movie. 6 out of 10

When a wealthy man is kidnapped, former private investigator James Dunn steps in to investigate. But he is no ordinary P.I. He is first seen in a swami get-up apparently reading into people's minds and giving them answers to their problems. Huh? He accompanies the kidnapped man's secretary (Joan Woodbury) to the mansion where he meets the man's creepy family which includes the eccentric Aunt Delia (a wasted Minerva Urecal in a very showy cameo) who is into the occult. All of a sudden, the kidnapped millionaire reappears in a trance-like state and all sorts of strange occurrences begin to happen. This leads Woodbury and Dunn to an abandoned house where they find another zombie like human, and to an obvious inclusion that any grade schooler could figure out. Monogram did dozens of these kinds of films in the 30's and 40's, and only the actors and character names changed. Some of them are a bit more entertaining than the others thanks to humorous scripts, but this one is silly and dull. It should be mentioned that the kidnapped man's name is Walter Craig, the name of the husband in George Kelly's play and 1936 movie "Craig's Wife" and its 1950 remake "Harriet Craig".

An ex-detective is called out of retirement to investigate a recent kidnapping. However, once on the job, one of the suspects becomes a zombie-like being and no one knows exactly how this occurred nor where the missing man is. And, to top it off, murder (or at least attempted murder) is in the air!This is a modest little film produced by poverty row studio, Monogram. B-Detective films like this were a dime a dozen during the 30s and 40s, so there isn't much to distinguish this from the thousands of somewhat similar films. Since it was such an inexpensive film, the film was directed by William Beaudine (a man well known for NEVER shooting re-takes), the actors were all second-tier talent and it starred James Dunn. While not a household name, Dunn had bounced around for years and he did have a lovely role in the great film A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. Here he has a nice, witty personality and plenty of excellent one-liners. In fact, this was the best thing about the film--whereas the mystery itself was purely secondary...at best. Due exclusively to Dunn's easy-going personality, he makes this simple little film quite watchable.