# The Ghost Walks > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Ghost_Walks > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Ghost_Walks.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Walks > Source revision: 1339468565 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1934 film by Frank R. Strayer This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "The Ghost Walks" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The Ghost Walks Directed by Frank R. Strayer Written by Charles Belden Produced by Maury M. Cohen Starring John Miljan June Collyer Cinematography M.A. Anderson Edited by Roland D. Reed Production company Invincible Pictures Corp. Distributed by Chesterfield Pictures Release date December 1, 1934 (1934-12-01) Running time 69 minutes Country United States Language English ***The Ghost Walks*** is a 1934 American [comedy](/source/Comedy_film) [mystery film](/source/Mystery_film)[1] directed by [Frank R. Strayer](/source/Frank_R._Strayer) starring [John Miljan](/source/John_Miljan) and [June Collyer](/source/June_Collyer). ## Plot On a stormy night, a theatrical producer, his secretary, and playwright Prescott Ames are stranded when their car skids off the road and gets stuck. The three take refuge in the nearby home of Dr. Kent, a friend of Ames's. One of Kent's patients, who is staying at the house, is acting strangely, and the others in the house tell the newcomers that she is behaving this way because it is the anniversary of her husband's murder. At dinner, the group begins exchanging accusations about the murder, when suddenly the lights go out, and soon afterwards comes the first in a series of mysterious and fearful events. The producer thinks all the strange occurrences are part of a ploy to get him to produce a play for Ames: One of the other characters exclaims, "These fools think we are putting on a play for their benefit!" The dinner-party was a scene from Ames's play, but when a madman sneaks into the house and tries to graft different body parts on the theatrical producer and his secretary, they realize it isn't a play. ## Cast - [John Miljan](/source/John_Miljan) as Prescott Ames - [June Collyer](/source/June_Collyer) as Gloria Shaw - [Richard Carle](/source/Richard_Carle) as Herman Wood - [Henry Kolker](/source/Henry_Kolker) as Dr. Kent - [Johnny Arthur](/source/Johnny_Arthur) as Homer Erskine - [Spencer Charters](/source/Spencer_Charters) as a Guard - [Donald Kirke](/source/Donald_Kirke) as Terry Shaw aka Terry Gray - [Eve Southern](/source/Eve_Southern) as Beatrice - [Douglas Gerrard](/source/Douglas_Gerrard) as Carroway (billed as Douglas Gerard) - [Wilson Benge](/source/Wilson_Benge) as Jarvis - [Jack Shutta](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jack_Shutta&action=edit&redlink=1) as Head Guard - [Harry Strang](/source/Harry_Strang) as Guard ## Reception Wanda Hale of the *[New York Daily News](/source/New_York_Daily_News)* gave the film two out of four stars, highlighting "several funny scenes, with Johnny Arthur and Richard Carle as the comics. Then, too, there is the suave John Miljan and the lovely June Collyer and Eve Southern to add romance to the horrors."[2] In 1997, author Michael R. Pitts complimented the plot element of the dress rehearsal in the film's first act, and wrote: "While the remainder of the film does not quite live up to these early scenes, it is a well-modulated melodrama which never seems to take itself too seriously."[3] ## See also - [List of ghost films](/source/List_of_ghost_films) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Loew's Offerings"](https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant/151003144/). *[Hartford Courant](/source/Hartford_Courant)*. Hartford, Connecticut. January 20, 1935. p. 2E. Retrieved July 9, 2024 – via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Hale, Wanda (March 30, 1935). ["Criterion Presents Thrills and Chills"](https://www-newspapers.com/article/daily-news/151002745/). *[New York Daily News](/source/New_York_Daily_News)*. New York, New York. p. 29. Retrieved July 9, 2024 – via [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Pitts, Michael R. (1997). [*Poverty Row Studios, 1929-1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each*](https://books.google.com/books?id=F8OSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA102) (2005 reprint ed.). [McFarland & Company](/source/McFarland_%26_Company). p. 102. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0786423194](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0786423194). ## External links - [*The Ghost Walks*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025169/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [*The Ghost Walks*](https://web.archive.org/web/1/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/76230/enwp) at the [TCM Movie Database](/source/Turner_Classic_Movies#TCMdb) (archived) - [*The Ghost Walks*](https://archive.org/details/the_ghost_walks) is available for free viewing and download at the [Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) v t e Films directed by Frank R. Strayer 1920s An Enemy of Men (1925) The Fate of a Flirt (1925) The Lure of the Wild (1925) Steppin' Out (1925) Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1926) When the Wife's Away (1926) Pleasure Before Business (1927) The Bachelor's Baby (1927) Now We're in the Air (1927) Rough House Rosie (1927) Just Married (1928) Moran of the Marines (1928) Partners in Crime (1928) Acquitted (1929) The Fall of Eve (1929) 1930s Borrowed Wives (1930) Let's Go Places (1930) Anybody's Blonde (1931) Caught Cheating (1931) Dragnet Patrol (1931) Soul of the Slums (1931) Murder at Midnight (1931) The Monster Walks (1932) Dynamite Denny (1932) Manhattan Tower (1932) The Crusader (1932) Tangled Destinies (1932) Gorilla Ship (1932) Love in High Gear (1932) Behind Stone Walls (1932) Forbidden Melody (1933) El rey de los gitanos (1933) The Vampire Bat (1933) In the Money (1933) By Appointment Only (1933) Dance Girl Dance (1933) Las fronteras del amor (1934) La cruz y la espada (1934) Fugitive Road (1934) In Love with Life (1934) The Ghost Walks (1934) Cross Streets (1934) Fifteen Wives (1934) Port of Lost Dreams (1934) One in a Million (1934) Twin Husbands (1934) Condemned to Live (1935) Public Opinion (1935) Death from a Distance (1935) Symphony of Living (1935) Society Fever (1935) Sea Spoilers (1936) Hitch Hike to Heaven (1936) Laughing at Trouble (1936) Murder at Glen Athol (1936) The Jones Family in Big Business (1937) Off to the Races (1937) Borrowing Trouble (1937) Hot Water (1937) Blondie! (1938) Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939) Blondie Meets the Boss (1939) Blondie Takes a Vacation (1939) 1940s Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940) Blondie on a Budget (1940) Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) Blondie Goes Latin (1941) Blondie in Society (1941) Go West, Young Lady (1941) Blondie for Victory (1942) Blondie Goes to College (1942) Blondie's Blessed Event (1942) Daring Young Man (1942) Footlight Glamour (1943) It's a Great Life (1943) Mama Loves Papa (1945) Senorita from the West (1945) I Ring Doorbells (1946) Messenger of Peace (1947) Reaching from Heaven (1948) The Sickle or the Cross (1949) The Pilgrimage Play (1949) 1950s Venture of Faith (1951) This 1930s horror film-related article is a stub. 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