{"id":36599,"date":"2024-09-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36599"},"modified":"2024-09-01T18:45:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T22:45:36","slug":"the-living-ghost-1942-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36599","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Living Ghost&#8221; (1942) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z090324zview_livingghost.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"745\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>The Living Ghost<\/b><\/i><\/em> (1942)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>William Beaudine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Joseph Hoffman;<\/strong> \u00a0<strong>Howard Dimsdale<\/strong> (original story)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>James Dunn, Joan Woodbury<\/strong><strong>, Paul McVey, J. Farrell MacDonald<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>SPOOK CHASER&#8230; A reckless sleuth follows the trail of a white ZOMBIE!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When wealthy banker Walter Craig disappears, his best friend, Ed Moline (McVey) hires retired PI, Nick Trayne (Dunn) to find him.\u00a0 Trayne has his hands full.\u00a0 Everyone is suspect and that includes Craig&#8217;s ex-wife Helen, his daughter Tina and her fiance Arthur, his sister Delia, her husband George, Craig&#8217;s friend Tony, Craig&#8217;s secretary and even Cedric the butler<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Walter Craig turns up in a zombie-like state, the case changes from a missing person to a who dunnit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What could have been a fun old dark house murder mystery\/comedy ends up being a lackluster affair.\u00a0 The title indicates a ghost but we end up with more of a zombie.\u00a0 Not that a ghost would have livened things up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>The Living Ghost<\/b><\/i> (1942)<\/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\/z090324zview_livingghost2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Living Ghost (1942) Director: William Beaudine Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman; \u00a0Howard Dimsdale (original story) Stars: James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, Paul<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,53,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599","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=36599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36600,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599\/revisions\/36600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}