THE GHOST BREAKERS (1940)

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Comedy, Horror
• Plot: Ghosts and gags collide in this witches brew of laughs, with Bob Hope as a Manhattan radio commentator who finds himself marooned on an island of the walking dead!Larry Lawrence (Hope), sought in connection with a murder he did not commit, eludes New York police by hiding in a steamer trunk. Soon the trunk (and Larry) are aboard a ship bound for Cuba, where the trunk s owner, pretty Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard), is sailing to take possession of a recent inheritance: a haunted castle. Sensing that Mary is in danger, Larry and his valet Alex (Willie Best) precede her to the island, which is inhabited by a ghost, a zombie and perhaps even a flesh-and-blood fiend. There s romance, comedy and chills as Hope and Goddard contend with earthly and un-earthly foes and try to keep from ending up as ghosts themselves!; ; Format: DVD MOVIE
• Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Willie Best, Pedro de Cordoba, Virginia Brissac, Noble Johnson, Anthony Quinn, Tom Dugan, Paul Fix, Lloyd Corrigan, James Blaine, David Durand, Jack Edwards, Robert Elliott, James Flavin, Jack Hatfield, Grace Hayle, Douglas Kennedy, Francisco Marán, Dolores Moran, Paul Newlan, Jack Norton, Robert Ryan, Larry Steers, Kay Stewart, Leonard Sues, Brick Sullivan, Blanca Vischer, Emmett Vogan, Max Wagner, George Marshall, Paul Dickey, Charles W. Goddard
• Director: George Marshall
• Runtime: 1:25
• Company: Universal Studios
• Media Format: Movie