Rating: NR
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 03/05/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 85 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Paramount followed up its successful
Bob Hope/
Paulette Goddard co-starrer
The Cat and the Canary (1939) by warming up another venerable "old dark house" stage play,
Paul Dickey and
Charles Goddard's
The Ghost Breaker, pluralizing the title to accommodate both stars. This time
Hope plays radio personality
Lawrence L. Lawrence (the middle initial stands for
Lawrence: "My folks had no imagination") who has to flee New York to avoid being mistakenly arrested for murder. He and his manservant
Alex (
Willie Best) book passage on a Cuba-bound liner, where they meet lovely heiress
Mary Carter (
Paulette Goddard). She is heading to Cuba to take charge of her ancestral mansion, despite warnings from several sinister characters that to enter this "haunted" house will mean certain death. Appointing himself
Mary's protector,
Lawrence investigates the mansion on his own, thereby crossing the path of a zombie (
Noble Johnson) and an apparently genuine ghost. He also meets the twin brother of the man he's accused of killing (
Anthony Quinn), who seems the most likely suspect when
Mary nearly comes to harm.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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A Haunted House Filled With Laughter and Chills.
Following their success with The Cat and the Canary, Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard team-up again for another hauntingly scary "dark house" thriller based on the play by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. Hope is a radio commentator, who hides in a beautiful heiress' (Goddard) wardrobe trunk in order to elude New York City police, who are tracking him for a murder he didn't commit. Arriving in Cuba, the fugitive commentator accompanies the girl as she takes possession of a haunted castle. There's plenty of laughs and chills to go around. Also starring Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Anthony Quinn, Willie Best, Paul Fix, Pedro de Cordoba, Virginia Brissac, Noble Johnson, Lloyd Corrigan, Tom Dugan, and Jack Norton.
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