Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Denis Doyle has stoutly maintained that his famed, ghost-hunting father left no secret message with Joseph Dunninger, Manhattan ghostbuster extraordinary. For years Dunninger has stoutly maintained that he did, is ready to sign an affidavit to that effect...
...stages in his flight, and the terrifying visions that haunt him in the forest. From the proud, gaudily-robed Emperor, he is broken down by his visions and the ever-throbbing drum until, a tattered, nervous wreck, he gives away his position to the natives by firing at a ghost. The story is simply that of the destruction of the Emperor's nerve and arrogance and of his inability to escape from the sins of his past into life of happiness from the riches he has wrung from the natives...
...main implement is the drum which begins to throb at the end of the first act and continues throughout, beating faster and faster as the natives come closer to their prey. To the drum he adds the visions of the fleeing Emperor, and in the murky forest appear the ghost figures of the men that Brutus Jones has killed. At each of these Jones fires a shot out of the precious six that he has until at last he shoots the sixth--a silver bullet he had saved for himself. It is this shot that gives him away...
...ranks of Hollywood hoodlums were culled for such experienced mischief-makers as Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield and Gene Lockhart. Guided by the extravagant hand of Director Michael Curtiz, The Sea Wolf's latest treatment stresses the psychological quirks of Wolf Larsen (Robinson), skipper of the scavenger ship Ghost, a sadistic tyrant who likes to curl up with a volume of Milton's poems when no one is looking. Some notable support is furnished the frowning, fighting actors by Newcomer Alexander Knox as the author stranded aboard the Ghost and by Barry Fitzgerald, as the ship...
...pair of curvaceous blondes. One blonde (Carole Landis) has returned from China to inherit the place. The other (Joan Blondell) strings along as friend and funster, gets a knife in her back before the night is out. Follows the usual Thorne Smith transmogrification in which Joan turns ghost, floats over to Topper's house, lures him, his wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points a thin, hesitating finger at the murderer the film shows: Billie Burke...