ApprovedThe Ghost Goes West

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Play Time: 95 mins
Romance, Comedy, Fantasy
The Ghost Goes West

Overview:
Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until he avenges a 200-year-old insult from a rival clan. To clear his mounting debts, Donald sells the dilapidated pile to an American businessman, Mr Martin, who has the castle complete with the Glourie ghost transported and rebuilt in Florida. While old-world gentility rubs up comically against 20th-century materialism, Martin's daughter takes a liking to both Donald and Murdoch, convinced they are one and the same man...

Status: Released (1935-12-17)
Awards:1 win & 1 nomination
Screen:Eric Keown, Robert E. Sherwood, Geoffrey Kerr
Productions: London Films Productions
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Spoken Languages: English
The Ghost Goes West
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Robert Donat (the younger "Glourie") is on good form in this enjoyably daft ghostly caper that sees the son of the chief of a cowardly Scottish clan condemned to haunt his castle until their sworn enemy the "McLaggen" takes an oath declaring that one "Glourie" is worth fifty of them. ....

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