The Ghost Comes Home
1940 American film
- March 8, 1940 (1940-03-08)
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The Ghost Comes Home is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and written by Richard Maibaum and Harry Ruskin. The film stars Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton, Reginald Owen and Donald Meek. The film was released on March 8, 1940, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[1][2]
It was based on a play by Georg Kaiser which had previously been made into the 1935 German film The Valiant Navigator by Hans Deppe.
Plot
Pet store owner Vern Adams is going to catch a ship to help out his friend John Thomas, however he still has time before it ships, so Vern goes to a nightclub and ends up being arrested for 60 days. When he gets out he finds out that the ship sank and that his family is using the insurance money. Now Vern hides out, so his family is not arrested for fraud.
Cast
- Frank Morgan as Vern Adams
- Billie Burke as Cora Adams
- Ann Rutherford as Billie Adams
- John Shelton as Lanny Shea
- Reginald Owen as Hemingway
- Donald Meek as Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.
- Nat Pendleton as Roscoe
- Frank Albertson as Ernest
- Harold Huber as Tony
- Hobart Cavanaugh as Ambrose Bundy
- Ann Morriss as Myra
- Don Castle as 'Spig'
- Tom Rutherford as Mortimer Hopkins, Jr.
- Renie Riano as Sarah Osborn
- Richard Carle as John Reed Thomas
References
External links
- The Ghost Comes Home at IMDb
- The Ghost Comes Home at AllMovie
- The Ghost Comes Home at the TCM Movie Database
- The Ghost Comes Home at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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The films of Wilhelm Thiele
- The Last Waltz King (1922)
- Tales of Old Vienna (1923)
- Franz Lehár (1923)
- Fiat Lux (1923)
- Attorney for the Heart (1927)
- His Late Excellency (1927)
- Orient Express (1927)
- Hurrah! I Live! (1928)
- The Lady with the Mask (1928)
- The Model from Montparnasse (1929)
- Waltz of Love (1930)
- The Three from the Filling Station (1930)
- The Road to Paradise (1930)
- The Private Secretary (1931)
- The Girl and the Boy (1931)
- The Typist (1931)
- Le Bal (1931)
- The Ball (1931)
- Madame Makes Her Exit (1931)
- Amourous Adventure (1932)
- Two Hearts Beat as One (1932)
- Girls to Marry (1932)
- Marry Me (1932)
- Waltz Time (1933)
- Grand Duchess Alexandra (1933)
- Lottery Lover (1935)
- The Jungle Princess (1936)
- London by Night (1937)
- Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937)
- Bridal Suite (1939)
- Bad Little Angel (1939)
- The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
- Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
- Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
- The Madonna's Secret (1946)
- The Du Pont Story (1950)
- The Last Pedestrian (1960)
- Sabine und die 100 Männer (1960)
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