Three Live Ghosts (1922 film)
Three Live Ghosts | |
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Directed by | George Fitzmaurice |
Written by |
Ouida Bergère Frederic S. Isham Max Marcin Margaret Turnbull |
Starring | Norman Kerry |
Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
Distributed by | Famous Players-Lasky British Producers |
Release dates |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent |
Three Live Ghosts is a 1922 British comedy film directed by George Fitzmaurice. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is based on a 1920 Broadway play, Three Live Ghosts, by Frederic Isham. Actor Cyril Chadwick is the only performer from the play to appear in the film.[1][2] A copy of the film, thought to be lost, was found in a Russian archive and shown publicly in 2015.[3] This version had however been radically re-edted by Soviet censors in the 1920s, making the film a searing critique of post-war Britain, including its relations with Ireland, which achieved Dominion status in the year the film was first shown.[4]
Cast
- Norman Kerry as Billy Foster
- Anna Q. Nilsson as Ivis
- Edmund Goulding as Jimmy Gubbins
- John Miltern as Peter Lame
- Cyril Chadwick as Spoofy
- Clare Greet as Mrs. Gubbins (as Claire Greet)
- Dorothy Fane as The Duchess
- Annette Benson as Mrs. Woofers
- Wyndham Guise as Briggs (as Windham Guise)
See also
References
- ↑ Three Live Ghosts as produced on Broadway at the Greenwich Village Theatre, September 29, 1920 to May 1921, 250 performances; IBDb.com
- ↑ "Progressive Silent Film List: Three Live Ghosts". Silent Era. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
- ↑ "Lost Hitchcock film to be shown publicly for the first time in nearly 100 years". De Montfort University. September 9, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
- ↑ Missing believed garbled: Hitchcock’s first steps in film
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