Summary
Moonshine stills cool behind them, two fugitives—one laconic, one Black and brimful of side-eye—burst out of Appalachia only to be hijacked by a flapper heiress whose pearls gleam like subpoenas. She lures them to a crumbling Castilian fortress where moonlight drips through iron grilles, turning corridors into accusatory ribs. Inside, shadows double-cross themselves: a suit of armor clanks sans knight, a harpsichord sighs without fingers, and the scent of tuberose hangs thick as perjury. The hauntings, orchestrated by a debt-drowned Duke, are capitalist allegories wearing ectoplasmic drag—each ghost a ledger inked in fear. Our hero, half-huckster, half-virgin, negotiates trapdoors, secret Jesuit vaults, and his own cowardice while the manservant’s rolling eyes puncture every pretense of white chivalry. When the castle’s heart finally disgorges a chest of Aztec doubloons, greed pirouettes into slapstick: spangled flappers chase flaming shawls across the parapets, the Duke’s moustache wilts like week-old lettuce, and the real phantom turns out to be the American conscience, rattling chains forged from Manifest Destiny and unpaid wages.
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A young man and his manservant, escaping from a backwoods family feud, are persuaded by a beautiful young heiress to help her rid her newly-gained Spanish castle of ghosts. The ghostly sightings, however, are the handiwork of the Duke d'Alba, who hopes to seize the castle's hidden treasure and use it to win the hand of the heiress.
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