| The Ghost Breaker | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille Oscar Apfel |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille Jesse L. Lasky |
| Written by | Cecil B. DeMille Oscar Apfel Paul Dickey (play) Charles W. Goddard (play) James Montgomery |
| Starring | H. B. Warner |
| Distributed by | Famous Players-Lasky, Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 7, 1914 |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent English intertitles |
The Ghost Breaker is a 1914 American drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel and based on the Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. It is considered widely to be the first film of a long line based on the genre of haunted house horror. The film was remade as The Ghost Breaker (1922) with Wallace Reid and Lila Lee, as The Ghost Breakers (1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and as Scared Stiff (1953) with Martin and Lewis. Today it is a lost film.[1]