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Haunted Spooks (1920) Directed by Hal Roach, Alfred J. Goulding
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Haunted Spooks Promotional advertisement Directed by Alfred J. Goulding Hal Roach Written by H. M. Walker Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Mildred Davis Wallace Howe Ernest Morrison Blue Washington Release date March 14, 1920 Running time 25 minutes Country United States Language Silent (English intertitles ) Haunted Spooks is a 1920 American silent Southern Gothic comedy horror film , produced and co-directed by Hal Roach , [ 1 ] starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis . The short film has a comedic version of a typical haunted house tale, and a dispute over a family's inheritance. A young woman is the heiress to a mansion and a plantation , but only if she is married. She quickly enters an arranged marriage with a stranger, and they travel to the mansion. Her uncle fakes ghostly apparitions, in order to scare them away and lay claim to the inheritance. At the end of the film, the husband and wife remember to enquire about their respective names. Plot The action in Haunted Spooks centres around Harold's romantic problems. It is set in the South ("[go] down the Mississippi and turn to the right"). The opening sequence has an uncle reading a telegram regarding a will. It…
Directors & creators
Hal Roach, Alfred J. Goulding
Subjects
Harold Lloyd