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The Ghost Breaker is a 1922 American silent horror comedy film about haunted houses and ghosts. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Alfred E. Green and starred Wallace Reid in one of his last screen roles. The story, based on the 1909 play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, had been released on film in 1914 (bearing the same name), directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel.
The 1922 version is now considered lost. Two of the actors in this film, Snitz Edwards and Arthur Edmund Carewe, later appeared together in the 1925 Lon Chaney silent classic The Phantom of the Opera. Two uncredited "ghosts" in the cast, Mervyn LeRoy and Richard Arlen, later went on to successful film careers.
The Ghost Breaker would be remade in the sound era as The Ghost Breakers (1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and later as Scared Stiff (1953) starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.




Plot


Warren Jarvis and his manservant Rusty Snow help a beautiful young heiress named Maria Theresa to rid her father's mansion of ghosts. The spooks turn out to be fakes however, fabricated by the Duke D'Alba to scare the young lady away, thus allowing him to steal her father's hidden gold.
No prints survive of the film. It was possibly a comedy classic especially being helmed by Alfred E. Green and took advantage of the increasing vogue and interest in haunted house melodramas.




Cast


Wallace Reid as Warren (Walter) Jarvis, ghost breaker
Lila Lee as Maria Theresa, a Spanish heiress
Walter Hiers (in blackface) as Rusty Snow, a Negro servant
Arthur Edmund Carewe as Duke D'Alba, leader of the ghosts
J. Farrell MacDonald as Sam Marcum, a Kentucky feudist
Frances Raymond as Aunt Mary Jarvis
Snitz Edwards as Maurice
Richard Arlen as A Ghost (uncredited)
Mervyn LeRoy as A Ghost (uncredited)
George O'Brien as A Ghost (uncredited)




See also


List of lost films
Wallace Reid filmography
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!




References






External links


Media related to The Ghost Breaker (1922 film) at Wikimedia Commons

The Ghost Breaker at IMDb
The Ghost Breaker at AllMovie
The Ghost Breaker at silentera.com
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Surviving Wallace Reid image from lost film "The Ghost Breaker"(Wayback Machine)
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