Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ghost Goes West (London Films). Rene Clair's first film in English, made at Alexander Korda's London studio from a screen play by Robert Sherwood, is a satiric fantasy notable for the qualities of grace, charm and imaginative wit that have long distinguished its director's work in French. Produced by a Hungarian, written by an American, directed by a Frenchman, and acted by an English-speaking cast, it has the homogeneity of style, the smooth polish often conspicuously lacking in its Hollywood counterparts. Its most serious fault is an occasional lethargy of pace, which...
...ghost is Murdoch Glourie (Robert Donat), a frivolous young shade whose dour father orders him to haunt Glourie Castle in Scotland as penance for an act of characteristic levity committed during the 18th Century. Packed off to fight the English, young Glourie so far disgraces his station as to be killed while hiding behind a powder keg to avoid being thrashed by members of the rival clan of MacLaggan...
...lives alone in Glourie Castle waiting for someone who, by purchasing it, will free him from his creditors. When the purchasers-a U. S. chain-store proprietor (Eugene Pallette), his nervous wife and their pretty daughter (Jean Parker)-appear, Glourie Castle is moved piecemeal to Florida. The ghost goes with it. His penchant for crudely old-fashioned kissing games tends to complicate young Donald Glourie's more romantic experiments, but in other respects his voyage is an unqualified success. It is climaxed when, at Glourie Castle's Florida opening, the ghost discovers a craven member of the Clan...
...industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke his own precedent to the extent of going to England to work for Producer Alexander Korda. U. S. Author Sherwood wrote the script of The Ghost Goes West, but in other respects it was a characteristic Clair production. Producer Korda, whose advice he might well have welcomed, scrupulously refrained from interference,, saw to it that Clair had a free hand...
With his wife Director Clair, a lean, elegant, sad-eyed man in his 30's, arrived in Manhattan for the first time last week, attended the enthusiastic premiere of The Ghost Goes West, planned a two-week stay before he returns to make two more pictures for London Films...