The Ghost Goes West

The Ghost Goes West
Directed by René Clair
Produced by Alexander Korda
Written by Story: Eric Keown
Screenplay: René Clair
Geoffrey Kerr
Robert E. Sherwood
Lajos Biro[1]
Starring Robert Donat
Jean Parker
Eugene Pallette
Music by Mischa Spoliansky
Cinematography Harold Rosson
Edited by Henry Cornelius
Harold Earle-Fishbacher
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release dates
17 December 1935 (UK)
Running time
95 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Ghost Goes West (1935) is a British romantic comedy/fantasy film starring Robert Donat, Jean Parker, and Eugene Pallette, and directed by René Clair, his first English-language film. The film contrasts an Old World ghost dealing with American vulgarity.

This rather cosmopolitan production combines an Hungarian-born British producer, a French director, and an American writer in a British film. This movie was the biggest grossing movie in 1936 in Great Britain.

Plot

Peggy Martin (Parker), the daughter of a rich American businessman (Eugene Pallette), persuades him to purchase a Scottish castle from Donald Glourie (Robert Donat), dismantle it and move it to Florida. Along with the castle goes its ghost.

Murdoch Glourie (also played by Donat) haunts the castle after dying a coward’s death in the 18th century. To find rest, he must get a descendant of the enemy Clan MacClaggan to admit that one Glourie is worth fifty MacClaggans.

Main cast

Miscellany

Reception

The film was voted the best British movie of 1936.[2]

It was the 13th most popular movie at the British box office in 1935-36.

See also

References

  1. The Ghost Goes West at Turner Classic Movies
  2. "BEST FILM PERFORMANCE LAST YEAR.". Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) (Launceston, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 9 July 1937. p. 8 Edition: LATE NEWS EDITION and DAILY. Retrieved 4 March 2013.

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