USA, 1935
20m
35mm film, black and white
mono (Western Electric Sound System), English
An American short borderline horror film directed by Charles Parrott and Harold Law.
Plot Summary
Charley is hired to “haunt” a house that a real estate agent needs to scare the owners into leaving. It turns out the tenants are a girl he’s just fallen for and her father and things become even more complicated when a mad inventor, recently escaped from psychiatric hospital, turns up.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Charles Parrott, Harold Law
Copyright MCMXXXV [1935] in U.S.A. by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation
Hal Roach presents. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture
Photography: Francis Corby
Film Editor: William Ziegler
Sound: William Randall
Cast
Charley Chase
Joyce Compton
Edwin Maxwell
Clarence Wilson
Alternative Titles
Public Ghost No. 1 – alternative title
References
Books
- The Palgrave Encyclopedia of American Horror Film Shorts 1915-1976 by Gary D. Rhodes and David J. Hogan p.385
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.385
