The Ghost Breaker
(1922) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels / 5130 feet
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Cast: Wallace Reid [Warren Jarvis, a ghost breaker], Lila Lee [Maria Theresa, a Spanish heiress], Walter Hiers [Rusty Snow, a colored servant]. Arthur Carewe [Duke D’Alva, the leader of ghosts], J. Farrell MacDonald [Sam Marcum, the Kentucky feudist], Frances Raymond [Aunt Mary Jarvis], Snitz Edwards [Maurice]
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by Walter De Leon, from the adaptation by Jack Cunningham of the play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. Cinematography by William Marshall. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 13 September 1922 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP18236]. Premiered circa 10 September 1922 in New York, New York. Released 15 October 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was previously filmed as The Ghost Breaker (1914).
Comedy.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Castles - Ghosts - Spain
Listing updated: 6 August 2024.
References: Sherwood-Best p. 167; Sweeney-Coming p. 49 : Website-AFI.
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