This is a movie that could be so much better. It is obvious that this one was done on a very thin shoestring budget. Might be because it was during the war but then it also has to do with an unknown independent company in the big studio era.
The cast is pretty much the folks who are characters actors in bigger films. The company was too small to get stars. In fact, the script writer is more famous than the cast. Morey Amsterdam would write about 6 movie films in his career, none of which would be as well known as his role writing for the Alan Brady show on TV's Dick Van Dyke. He gets much better punch lines than the ones he writes here.
It is a pleasant short hour "B" picture which was certainly used to try to take peoples minds off the war newsreels in the theater. We have an old run down house that belongs to a crook who has the nerve to have himself delivered to the new owners - supposedly dead, but very much alive and willing to haun his way through.
The entertainment is enjoyable, though the copy I saw has an awful lot of very dark scenes that are difficult to see. At least this one stays into the haunts and a house with unlimited passages and a hidden treasure too boot. The police are on hand and the ghosts have more company than they want.
The cast is pretty much the folks who are characters actors in bigger films. The company was too small to get stars. In fact, the script writer is more famous than the cast. Morey Amsterdam would write about 6 movie films in his career, none of which would be as well known as his role writing for the Alan Brady show on TV's Dick Van Dyke. He gets much better punch lines than the ones he writes here.
It is a pleasant short hour "B" picture which was certainly used to try to take peoples minds off the war newsreels in the theater. We have an old run down house that belongs to a crook who has the nerve to have himself delivered to the new owners - supposedly dead, but very much alive and willing to haun his way through.
The entertainment is enjoyable, though the copy I saw has an awful lot of very dark scenes that are difficult to see. At least this one stays into the haunts and a house with unlimited passages and a hidden treasure too boot. The police are on hand and the ghosts have more company than they want.