A couple of facts you might like to know about The Ghostbreakers.
You did enjoy it, didn't you? I think it's rather delightful.
Love that black and white camera work of Charles Lang,
all the business involving that melody in the organ,
and also Paulette dressing like the lady in the painting.
All of these little things all come together to make The Ghostbreakers
a rather special entertainment, even though it may not be the funniest movie ever made.
In its day, it was enormously successful, and I'm not surprised to know that.
Now, if you were really alert, did you notice the two ambulance men
very early in The Ghostbreakers? One of them was Douglas Kennedy.
The other one was Robert Ryan in one of his first movie appearances.
The scene on the wharf with Bob Hope and the business with the finger poking through the hole,
which I thought was terribly funny.
Two people. The man, Martin, his name was, who bumped into Paulette Goddard on the wharf,
is Lloyd Corrigan. Lloyd Corrigan was the man who directed the first feature-length
Technicolor musical, The Dancing Pirate, at RKO.
Would that we had that to show you on TV.
It was the most beautiful film in gorgeous Technicolor.
And the drunk in that wharf scene, of course, was Jack Norton, a teetotaler in real life.
He specialised in playing drunkards in...
Well, I don't know how many movies, but I wouldn't be surprised
if it wasn't at least 100 and possibly 200,
but that was his specialty for many years in Hollywood.
Anthony Quinn played two parts.
I didn't want to spoil the fun by mentioning that before the film began.
And, of course, Richard Carlson was also in the cast.
In one of the attention-getting parts, he played as Hollywood was giving him
better and better parts around about this period.
So there you are, the Ghostbreakers.
The third of four film versions.
The first one was made in 1915 with H.B. Warner,
the second with Wallace Reed in 1922,
the third in 1940 with Bob Havenpullard Goddard,
and then it was remade in the 50s as Scared Stiff with Martin & Lewis
and Elizabeth Scott and Carmen Miranda.
I think this version has to be my favourite.
Next Saturday night will be my great pleasure to present for your entertainment
two super movies.
Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder with Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Ray Milan,
playing the most incredible villain, and John Williams.
Dial M for Murder will be followed by one of the legendary thrillers
of the late 1940s, Kiss of Death.
You really wouldn't want to miss either of those, would you?
Next Saturday night on the Galdons of Hollywood,
and I look forward to your company. Good night.