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| 3 | ''The Ghost Breakers'' is a 1940 comedy horror film directed by George Marshall and starring Creator/BobHope and Creator/PauletteGoddard. It's the third [[TheFilmOfThePlay film adaptation]] of the 1909 stage farce ''The Ghost Breaker''. |
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| 5 | Larry Lawrence (Hope) is a Walter Winchell-type radio broadcaster in New York, who goes on the run after supposedly murdering the crime boss (Creator/AnthonyQuinn) he's been exposing on the air. He gets mixed up with Mary Carter (Goddard), an heiress who has just inherited a plantation in Cuba with a supposedly haunted mansion. Traveling there together, they find themselves confronted by zombies, a ghost, and the twin brother (Quinn) of the dead gangster. |
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| 7 | The story would be remade yet again in 1953 as ''Film/ScaredStiff''. |
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| 10 | !!Tropes used in this film: |
| 11 | * MistakenForMurderer: Larry flees New York after mistakenly believing he's shot Ramon Mederos to death. |
| 12 | * RepetitiveName: Larry's full name is Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence. As he explains to Mary, "My folks had no imagination." |
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