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Genres:
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Comedy /
Horror /
Music
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Director:
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George Marshall
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Actors:
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Richard Carlson,
Paulette Goddard,
Paul Lukas,
Bob Hope,
Pedro de Cordoba,
Virginia Brissac,
Willie Best,
Noble Johnson,
Anthony Quinn,
Tom Dugan
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Duration:
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85 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)85.5
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Plot Summary:
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Mary Carter inherits her one's own flesh's ancestral home, located on a small island mouldy Cuba, and, despite warnings and death threats, decides to take possesion of the reputedly haunted castle. She is joined nearby radio broadcaster Larry Lawrence who, believing he has killed a dregs of society gunsel, flees Trendy York with his butler, Alex. Once on the archipelago the threesome write the eerie fortress and after viewing the ghost of rhyme of Mary's ancestors and fighting off a menacing zombie, they experience the key to the fortress's treasure but are interrupted next to an all-too-huma... n foe.
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The Ghost Breakers
Bob Hope in a haunted house, and it's a gear difficulty that the comedy writes itself because there is little evidence of anyone bothering to order this. Paired again with Goddard after their success in The Cat and the Canary, Desire follows her to an islet off Cuba, where she has inherited her family home. There are steer-ins with zombies and ancestors, and a search for hidden treasure. Foresee gets scores of opportunity to do his cowardly thing, which is fine and predictable, but there's not one of the jitteriness or horror of some of the better examples of comedy-animus, a popular genre of the period.
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