{{short description|1932 film}} {{More footnotes needed|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{use mdy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Haunted Gold | image = Haunted Gold FilmPoster.jpeg | caption = Film poster | director = Mack V. Wright | producer = Leon Schlesinger | writer = Adele Buffington | starring = {{plain list| * John Wayne * Sheila Terry * Erville Alderson * Harry Woods * Otto Hoffman * Martha Mattox * Blue Washington }} | music = John Peasano | cinematography = Nicholas Musuraca | editing = William Clemens | studio = Leon Schlesinger Productions | distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures | released = {{film date|1932|12|17}} | runtime = 58 minutes | country = United States | language = English }}
'''''Haunted Gold''''' is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring John Wayne.<ref name="TCM">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tcm.turner.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=968558%7C917&name=Haunted-Gold |title=Haunted Gold |access-date=March 24, 2018 |work=TCM}}</ref> It is a remake of the 1928 film ''The Phantom City'', starring Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan. Filmed in 1932, two years before the implementation of Hollywood's Production Code, the film contains several racial slurs involving the black character "Clarence Brown" (played by Blue Washington).
==Plot== John Mason and Janet Carter receive an anonymous letter telling them to travel to a ghost town that has an abandoned mine. There they befriend each other as they try to find out why they were sent the letters. They soon find themselves targets of Joe Ryan and his gang who are looking for the hidden gold inside the abandoned mine. They are helped by the mysterious Phantom of the mine who has his own plans.
==Cast== * John Wayne as John Mason * Sheila Terry as Janet Carter * Harry Woods as Joe Ryan * Erville Alderson as Tom Benedict * Otto Hoffman as Simon - Benedict's Servant * Martha Mattox as Mrs. Herman * Blue Washington as Clarence Washington Brown * John T. Prince as Bill Carter
==See also== * John Wayne filmography
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0022981}} * {{TCMDb title|1233}} * {{AFI film|4915}}
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