The Ghoul (film)

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The Ghoul

Directed by	T. Hayes Hunter
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	Frank King (play), Rupert Downing, Leonard Hines, Roland Pertwee, John Hastings Turner
Starring	Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger
Music by	Louis Levy, Leighton Lucas
Cinematography	Günther Krampf
Editing by	Ian Dalrymple, Ralph Kemplen
Distributed by	Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Release date(s)	1933
Running time	77 min
Country	UK
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Ghoul is a 1933 British horror film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke and Ernest Thesiger. The plot centres around a Professor (Karloff) who is to be buried with an Egyptian jewel in order to attain eternal life. When the jewel is stolen by his servant, the professor rises from the dead to reclaim it.

The film, based on the play and novel by Dr. Frank King and Leonard J. Hines, was once considered to be a lost film since the original nitrate negative had succumbed to decomposition and no prints of the film were known to exist. However, an incomplete and partly decomposed Czech release print was discovered which was the only available print for several decades. Then, finally, an excellent quality print was discovered in the archives of the British Film Institute. It has since been made available on DVD.