

The Ghost Breakers
When the Ghost WALKS... They RUN!
After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
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- English
- stowaway
- haunted house
- house
- inheritance
- zombie
- mansion
- heir
- ghost
- radio host
- haunted castle
- steamship
- haunted mansion
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- PremiereDetroit, Michigan7 Jun 1940
- TheatricalNR21 Jun 1940
- PhysicalNRDVD, Universal Studios1 Apr 2003
- PhysicalNRBlu-ray, Kino Lorber15 Sept 2020
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The Ghost Breakers was released on 21 June 1940.
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John Chard
6/14/2020
You still there zomb? The Ghost Breakers is a sort of sequel to Paramount's 1939 hit "The Cat and the Canary", also starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. Directed by George Marshall (who would direct the Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis 1958 remake, "Scared Stiff", as well) it's adapted by Walter DeLeon from the play "The Ghost Breaker" by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. The premise is simple, after mistakenly thinki…
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