The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Synopsis: Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard's comic timing is excellent, and the works on which they are teamed together contain some of the funniest moments filmed by either actor. Hope plays Larry Lawrence, a... Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard's comic timing is excellent, and the works on which they are teamed together contain some of the funniest moments filmed by either actor. Hope plays Larry Lawrence, a New York City detective who becomes involved in a gangster-related hotel shoot-out. Believing he has killed a man, Lawrence hides in a trunk owned by Mary Carter (Goddard). When Lawrence gets out of the trunk, he finds himself on a steamboat, as Carter is en route to a castle which she has recently inherited on a small island off the coast of Cuba. While aboard the ship, Carter and Lawrence are aprised of rumors that the castle is haunted, but they remains steadfast in their will to visit it. Once there, many perilous and hilarious adventures await. THE GHOST BREAKERS is widely heralded as the best of Hope and Goddard's combined efforts. [More]

Starring: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas

Starring: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Anthony Quinn, Willie Best, Lloyd Corrigan, Noble Johnson, Pedro De Cordoba, Virginia Brissac, Tom Dugan, Paul Fix, Emmett Vogan

Director: George Marshall

Director: George Marshall
Screenwriter: Walter DeLeon
Producer: Arthur Hornblow
Composer: Ernst Toch

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