The Ghost Comes Home

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

↑"The Ghost Comes Home (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on February 21, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
↑"The Ghost Comes Home". TV Guide. Archived from the original on December 4, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2014.

External links

The Ghost Comes Home at IMDb
The Ghost Comes Home at the TCM Movie Database (archived)
The Ghost Comes Home at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

[1] "The Ghost Comes Home (1940) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on February 21, 2012. Retrieved November 28, 2014.

[2] "The Ghost Comes Home". TV Guide. Archived from the original on December 4, 2014. Retrieved November 28, 2014.

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