The Ghost Breaker (1922 film)
1922 film by Alfred Edward Green
- September 10, 1922 (1922-09-10) (New York City)
- October 15, 1922 (1922-10-15) (United States)
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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.[1] 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.
The 1922 version is now considered lost.[2][3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
Plot
Warren Jarvis and his manservant Rusty Snow help a beautiful young heiress named Maria Theresa to rid her father's mansion of ghosts. The spooks turn out to be fakes however, fabricated by the Duke D'Alba to scare the young lady away, thus allowing him to steal her father's hidden gold.
Cast
- Wallace Reid as Warren (Walter) Jarvis, ghost breaker
- Lila Lee as Maria Theresa, a Spanish heiress
- Walter Hiers (in blackface) as Rusty Snow, a Negro servant
- Arthur Edmund Carewe as Duke D'Alba, leader of the ghosts
- J. Farrell MacDonald as Sam Marcum, a Kentucky feudist
- Frances Raymond as Aunt Mary Jarvis
- Snitz Edwards as Maurice
- Richard Arlen as A Ghost (uncredited)
- Mervyn LeRoy as A Ghost (uncredited)
- George O'Brien as A Ghost (uncredited)
See also
References
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Ghost Breaker(Wayback)
- ^ Soister, John T. (2012). American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929. McFarland. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-786-48790-5.
- ^ Reid, Wallace (May 5, 1922). "The Ghost Breaker" – via memory.loc.gov.
- ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 250.ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
- ^ Kabatchnik, Amnon (2011). Blood On the Stage, 1950-1975: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery and Detection. Scarecrow Press. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-810-87784-9.
External links
Media related to The Ghost Breaker (1922 film) at Wikimedia Commons
- The Ghost Breaker at IMDb
- The Ghost Breaker at AllMovie
- The Ghost Breaker at silentera.com
- Surviving image card
- Surviving Wallace Reid image from lost film "The Ghost Breaker"(Wayback Machine)
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Films directed by Alfred E. Green
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- Silk Husbands and Calico Wives (1920)
- A Double-Dyed Deceiver (1920)
- Through the Back Door (1921)
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
- The Bachelor Daddy (1922)
- Our Leading Citizen (1922)
- The Ghost Breaker (1922)
- The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922)
- Back Home and Broke (1922)
- The Ne'er-Do-Well (1923)
- Woman-Proof (1923)
- Pied Piper Malone (1924)
- In Hollywood With Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
- Inez from Hollywood (1924)
- The Talker (1925)
- Sally (1925)
- The Man Who Found Himself (1925)
- The Girl from Montmartre (1926)
- Ladies at Play (1926)
- Irene (1926)
- It Must Be Love (1926)
- Ella Cinders (1926)
- Two Girls Wanted (1927)
- Is Zat So? (1927)
- The Auctioneer (1927)
- Come to My House (1927)
- Honor Bound (1928)
- Disraeli (1929)
- Making the Grade (1929)
- The Green Goddess (1930)
- The Man From Blankley's (1930)
- Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
- Old English (1930)
- Men of the Sky (1931)
- The Road to Singapore (1931)
- Smart Money (1931)
- Union Depot (1932)
- It's Tough to Be Famous (1932)
- The Rich Are Always With Us (1932)
- The Dark Horse (1932)
- Silver Dollar (1932)
- Parachute Jumper (1933)
- Grand Slam (1933)
- Baby Face (1933)
- Central Airport (1933)
- I Loved a Woman (1933)
- The Narrow Corner (1933)
- Dark Hazard (1934)
- Side Streets (1934)
- Housewife (1934)
- The Merry Frinks (1934)
- As the Earth Turns (1934)
- A Lost Lady (1934)
- Gentlemen Are Born (1934)
- Sweet Music (1935)
- Here's to Romance (1935)
- The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935)
- The Goose and the Gander (1935)
- Dangerous (1935)
- Colleen (1936)
- They Met in a Taxi (1936)
- The Golden Arrow (1936)
- Two in a Crowd (1936)
- More Than a Secretary (1936)
- The League of Frightened Men (1937)
- Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)
- Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937)
- Let's Get Married (1937)
- Ride a Crooked Mile (1938)
- The Duke of West Point (1938)
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
- King of the Turf (1939)
- 20,000 Men a Year (1939)
- Flowing Gold (1940)
- Shooting High (1940)
- South of Pago Pago (1940)
- East of the River (1940)
- Adventure in Washington (1941)
- Badlands of Dakota (1941)
- The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
- Meet the Stewarts (1942)
- Appointment in Berlin (1943)
- There's Something About a Soldier (1943)
- Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
- Strange Affair (1944)
- A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
- The Jolson Story (1946)
- Tars and Spars (1946)
- The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
- Copacabana (1947)
- Four Faces West (1948)
- The Girl from Manhattan (1948)
- Cover Up (1949)
- Sierra (1949)
- The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
- Two Gals and a Guy (1951)
- Invasion U.S.A. (1952)
- The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
- Paris Model (1953)
- Top Banana (1954)
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