Bob Hope is at his wise-cracking best in the 1940 comedy-horror film “The Ghost Breakers.” It is the story of a Manhattan working girl who inherits a mansion in Cuba that is supposedly haunted. Director George Marshall (“The Goldwyn Follies” 1938) and screenwriter Walter DeLeon assembled this smooth, fast-moving picture based on the 1909 play “The Ghost Breaker.”
Paulette Goddard plays the new owner of the mansion, helped out by Bob Hope and Richard Carlson. Co-stars include Anthony Quinn, Willie Best, Paul Lukas, Pedro De Cordoba, Virginia Brissac, Noble Johnson, Paul Fix, Tom Dugan, Lloyd Corrigan, and Robert Ryan in an uncredited cameo role. Great cinematography by Charles Lang. “The Ghost Breakers” was a box office success for Paramount Pictures, and served as an inspiration for the “Ghostbusters” movie series that started in 1984.
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
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Bob Hope is at his wise-cracking best in the 1940 comedy-horror film “The Ghost Breakers.” It is the story of a Manhattan working girl who inherits a mansion in Cuba that is supposedly haunted. Director George Marshall (“The Goldwyn Follies” 1938) and screenwriter Walter DeLeon assembled this smooth, fast-moving picture based on the 1909 play “The Ghost Breaker.”
Paulette Goddard plays the new owner of the mansion, helped out by Bob Hope and Richard Carlson. Co-stars include Anthony Quinn, Willie Best, Paul Lukas, Pedro De Cordoba, Virginia Brissac, Noble Johnson, Paul Fix, Tom Dugan, Lloyd Corrigan, and Robert Ryan in an uncredited cameo role. Great cinematography by Charles Lang. “The Ghost Breakers” was a box office success for Paramount Pictures, and served as an inspiration for the “Ghostbusters” movie series that started in 1984.