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The ghost breakers / [a Paramount Picture] ; screenplay writer, Walter DeLeon ; director, George Marshall.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 809
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Bob Hope, the tribute collection
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Dickey, Paul, 1885-1933--Film adaptations.
- Dickey, Paul.
- Goddard, Charles, 1879-1951--Film.
- Goddard, Charles.
- Goddard, Charles, 1879-1951.
- Murder--Investigation--New York (State)--New York--Drama.
- Murder.
- Haunted castles--Cuba--Drama.
- Haunted castles.
- Murder--Investigation.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Drama.
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).
- Cuba.
- New York (State)--New York.
- New York (State)--New York--Manhattan.
- Genre:
- Comedy films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Drama.
- Fiction films.
- Mystery films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (1 hr., 25 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- Universal City, CA : Universal, [2002]
- Language Note:
- English dialogue, Spanish or French subtitles; Closed-captioned.
- System Details:
- DVD, Dolby digital 2.0 mono. 1.33:1 full frame.
- digital optical mono
- video file DVD video
- Summary:
- Larry Lawrence, a Manhattan radio commentator sought in connection with a murder he did not commit, eludes New York police by hiding in a steamer trunk. Soon the trunk and Larry are aboard a ship bound for Cuba, where the trunk's owner, pretty Mary Carter, is sailing to take possession of a recent inheritance: a haunted castle.
- Mary's inherited her family's huge castle off the coast of Cuba. Together with a radio broadcaster on the run from the mob and his butler, they discover the castle is haunted.
- Participant:
- Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Anthony Quinn, Willie Best.
- Notes:
- Based on the play The ghost breaker / by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
- Originally produced as motion picture in 1940.
- Special features: Entertaining the troops; command performance 1944; Hollywood victory caravan; photography gallery; theatrical trailer; production notes; cast and filmmakers; DVD-ROM features.
- ISBN:
- 078325508X
- 9780783255088
- OCLC:
- 49541420
- Publisher Number:
- 025192121326
- 21213 Universal
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