{"id":37876,"date":"2024-12-05T07:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37876"},"modified":"2024-12-05T07:53:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T12:53:01","slug":"the-phantom-carriage-1921-screenplay-directed-by-and-starring-victor-sjostrom-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37876","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Phantom Carriage&#8221; (1921) screenplay, directed by and starring Victor Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z120524zview_phantomcarriage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Phantom Carriage <\/i>(1921)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Victor Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Victor Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m;<\/strong> based on K\u00f6rkarlen by <strong>Selma Lagerl\u00f6f<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Victor Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m, Hilda Borgstr\u00f6m, Tore Svennberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Do the Dead Come Back? Can Your Soul Leave Your Body &#8211; And Return Again? Is Spiritualism a Reality?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three drunkards are in a graveyard on New Year&#8217;s Eve.\u00a0 One of the boozers, David, explains the legend that the last sinner to die each year is doomed.\u00a0 This unfortunate must spend the next year driving Death&#8217;s carriage to collect the souls of the dead.\u00a0 As the clock nears midnight David gets hit on the head with a bottle.\u00a0 He falls to the ground.\u00a0 It appears that David&#8217;s soul is seen leaving his body.<\/p>\n<p>A carriage approaches&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Charlie Chaplin said <em>The Phantom Carriage<\/em> was the best film ever made.<\/p>\n<p>The special effects for this 1921 film were done mainly through double (or more) film exposures.\u00a0 Filming took place from May to July 1920.\u00a0 Post-production work took five months!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i>The Phantom Carriage <\/i>(1921)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.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\/z120524zview_phantomcarriage2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phantom Carriage (1921) Director: \u00a0Victor Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m Screenplay: Victor Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m; based on K\u00f6rkarlen by Selma Lagerl\u00f6f Stars: Victor Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m, Hilda<\/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":[52,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","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\/37876","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=37876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37891,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37876\/revisions\/37891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}