The Ghost Breaker (1914 film)

The Ghost Breaker
Scene from the film.
Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille Oscar C. Apfel
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille Jesse L. Lasky
Written by	Cecil B. DeMille Oscar C. Apfel Paul Dickey Charles W. Goddard James Montgomery
Based on	The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard
Starring	H. B. Warner
Distributed by	Famous Players-Lasky Paramount Pictures
Release dates	December 7, 1914 (1914-12-07)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

The Ghost Breaker was a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel and based on the Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players-Lasky banner.^[1]

The Ghost Breaker was possibly the first film in a long line of haunted-house horror films with the same story. A 1922 remake of the same name starred Wallace Reid and Lila Lee. The original film was also remade as The Ghost Breakers (1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and as Scared Stiff (1953) with Martin and Lewis.^[2] The film is now considered lost.^[3]

Cast

H. B. Warner as Warren Jarvis
Rita Stanwood as Princess Maria Theresa
Theodore Roberts as Prince of Aragon
Betty Johnson as Carmen
Jode Mullally as Don Luis
Horace B. Carpenter as Carlos, Duke D'Alva
Jeanne McPherson as Juanita, Carmen's rival
Mabel Van Buren as Delores
William Elmer as Robledo
Richard L'Estrange as Maximo, the ghost (as Dick La Strange)
Fred Montague as Gaspart, the ghost
Lucien Littlefield as Judge Jarvis
John Burton as Rusty (as J.W. Burton)
Jack W. Johnston as Markam (as J.W. Johnson)

Release

The film was released in Wellington, New Zealand, on December 19, 1915, where it followed a week-long run of Fanchon the Cricket.^[4]

References

↑ The Ghost Breaker at silentera.com
↑ Kabatchnik, Amnon (2011). Blood On the Stage, 1950-1975: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery and Detection. Scarecrow Press. p. 306. ISBN 0-810-87784-8.
↑ Soister, John T. (2012). American Silent Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films, 1913-1929. McFarland. p. 219. ISBN 0-786-48790-9.
↑ Amusements. Wairarapa Daily Times. Volume LXX. Issue 14474. 7 January 1916. p 3. Retrieved 13 June 2016

External links

The Ghost Breaker at the Internet Movie Database
The Ghost Breaker at AllMovie

Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Silent	The Squaw Man (1914) Brewster's Millions (1914) The Master Mind (1914) The Only Son (1914) The Man on the Box (1914) The Call of the North (1914) The Virginian (1914) What's His Name (1914) The Man from Home (1914) Rose of the Rancho (1914) The Ghost Breaker (1914) The Girl of the Golden West (1915) After Five (1915) The Warrens of Virginia (1915) The Unafraid (1915) The Captive (1915) The Wild Goose Chase (1915) The Arab (1915) Chimmie Fadden (1915) Kindling (1915) Carmen (1915) Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915) The Cheat (1915) Temptation (1915) The Golden Chance (1915) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916) The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) Maria Rosa (1916) The Dream Girl (1916) Joan the Woman (1916) Lost and Won (1917) A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) The Little American (1917) The Woman God Forgot (1917) Nan of Music Mountain (1917) The Devil-Stone (1917) The Whispering Chorus (1918) Old Wives for New (1918) We Can't Have Everything (1918) Till I Come Back to You (1918) The Squaw Man (1918) Don't Change Your Husband (1919) For Better, for Worse (1919) Male and Female (1919) Why Change Your Wife? (1920) Something to Think About (1920) Forbidden Fruit (1921) The Affairs of Anatol (1921) Fool's Paradise (1921) Saturday Night (1922) Manslaughter (1922) Adam's Rib (1923) The Ten Commandments (1923) Triumph (1924) Feet of Clay (1924) The Golden Bed (1925) The Road to Yesterday (1925) The Volga Boatman (1926) The King of Kings (1927) Walking Back (1928) The Godless Girl (1929)

Sound	Dynamite (1929) Madam Satan (1930) The Squaw Man (1931) The Sign of the Cross (1932) This Day and Age (1933) Four Frightened People (1934) Cleopatra (1934) The Crusades (1935) The Plainsman (1936) The Buccaneer (1938) Union Pacific (1939) North West Mounted Police (1940) Reap the Wild Wind (1942) The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) Unconquered (1947) California's Golden Beginning (1948) Samson and Delilah (1949) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) The Ten Commandments (1956) The Buccaneer (1958)

Paul Dickey and Charles Goddard's The Ghost Breaker (1914)

Films	The Ghost Breaker (1914) The Ghost Breaker (1922) The Ghost Breakers (1940) Scared Stiff (1953)

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