The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong..

Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s melodrama and don’t mind watching a movie that feels like it was filmed inside a velvet-lined jewelry box, sure. It’s a strange, dusty little thing. Probably skip it if you need your ghost stories to have, you know, actual stakes or jump scares. Lionel Barrymore ...


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"Is it worth your time? If you have a soft spot for 1930s melodrama and don’t mind watching a movie that feels like it was filmed inside a velvet-lined jewelry box, sure. It’s a strange, dusty little thing. Probably skip it if you need your ghost stories to have, you know, actual stakes or jump scares. Lionel Barrymore is the whole show here. He’s playing a guy who dies, realizes he was a bit of a jerk, and then has to spend the rest of the movie as a invisible specter watching his family deal wi..."
David Belasco, Francis Edward Faragoh
United States

1935 · IMDb 5.3


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