{"id":32245,"date":"2023-03-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32245"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:05:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:05:19","slug":"the-ghost-breakers-1940-starring-bob-hope-paulette-goddard-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32245","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Ghost Breakers&#8221; (1940) starring Bob Hope &#038; Paulette Goddard \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z031823zview_ghostbreakers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"757\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Ghost Breakers<\/strong><\/em> (1940)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>George Marshall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Writer:\u00a0 <strong>Walter DeLeon <\/strong>based on the play <em>The Ghost Breaker<\/em> by<strong> Paul Dickey <\/strong>and<strong> Charles W. Goddard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Willie Best, Pedro de Cordoba, Virginia Brissac, Noble Johnson, Anthony Quinn, Tom Dugan, Paul Fix, Lloyd Corrigan \u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Robert Elliott<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> The two stars of &#8220;The Cat and the Canary&#8221; find love and laughter in a haunted house!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a voyage to Cuba Mary Carter (Goddard) and Larry Lawrence (Hope) develop a flirtatious relationship.\u00a0 Mary is going to Cuba to claim an inheritance. Larry ended up on the ship by accident.\u00a0 When Mary is told about ghosts and zombies on the land and mansion she&#8217;s inherited, Larry decides to stick around.\u00a0 The mansion is just as creepy as she&#8217;d been told.\u00a0 It&#8217;s full of secret passageways, walls with hidden panels, and a painting that looks just like Mary. When what appear to be ghosts and zombies show up, it may be time to sell!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Due to the success of <em>The Cat and The Canary<\/em>, the studio wanted to quickly re-team Hope and Goddard. <em>The Ghost Breakers<\/em> fit the bill. Although they play different characters, the plots of both films are very similar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the third time the play <em>The Ghost Breakers<\/em> was made into a film.\u00a0 The first two versions were silent.\u00a0 It was remade for a fourth time as<em> Scared Stiff<\/em> in 1953 with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Ghost Breakers (1940) <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z031823zview_ghostbreakers2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"482\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghost Breakers (1940) Director:\u00a0 George Marshall Writer:\u00a0 Walter DeLeon based on the play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,63,54,74,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32246,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32245\/revisions\/32246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}