{"id":36560,"date":"2024-08-28T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36560"},"modified":"2024-08-24T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T02:40:00","slug":"the-ghost-and-the-guest-1943-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36560","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Ghost and the Guest&#8221; (1943) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z082824zview_ghostguest.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"665\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ghost and the Guest (1943)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>William Nigh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Morey Amsterdam<\/strong>; original story by <strong>Milt Gross<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>James Dunn, Florence Rice<\/strong><strong>, Anthony Caruso<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Sam McDaniel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Webster Frye (Dunn) and his bride, Jackie (Rice) plan to honeymoon in the old remote house her father bought her.\u00a0 When Webster and Jackie arrive they are surprised to find Ben Bowron.\u00a0 Bowron says that the famous jewel thief Honeyboy left him the house in his will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before you know it Honeyboy&#8217;s coffin is brought to the house.\u00a0 Then a bunch of criminals show up for Honeyboy&#8217;s burial service.\u00a0 They are followed by some cops and a lawyer.\u00a0 If this sounds like a great mix for a fun romp, it is.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the movie doesn&#8217;t live up to the potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Morey Amsterdam of <em>The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em> fame wrote the screenplay.\u00a0 You&#8217;d think it would be funnier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>The Ghost and the Guest (1943)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.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\/2024\/z082824zview_ghostguest2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghost and the Guest (1943) Director: William Nigh Screenplay:\u00a0 Morey Amsterdam; original story by Milt Gross Stars: James Dunn,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36560","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=36560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36561,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36560\/revisions\/36561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}