The Ghost Breaker (1922)
September 10, 1922Release Date
The Ghost Breaker (1922)
September 10, 1922Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Wallace Reid
Walter Jarvis, a Ghost Breaker
Lila Lee
Maria Theresa, a Spanish Heiress
Walter Hiers
Rusty Snow
Arthur Edmund Carewe
Duke d'Alba
J. Farrell MacDonald
Sam Marcum
Frances Raymond
Aunt Mary Jarvis
Snitz Edwards
Maurice
George O’Brien
One of the Ghosts (uncredited)
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Release DateSeptember 10, 1922
StatusReleased
Running Time57m
Content RatingNR
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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.