| The Ghost Breaker | |
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| Directed by | Alfred E. Green |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky |
| Written by | Paul Dickey (play The Ghost Breaker) Charles W. Goddard (play The Ghost Breaker) Jack Cunningham (adaptation) Walter De Leon (scenario) |
| Starring | Wallace Reid Lila Lee |
| Cinematography | William Marshall |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 10, 1922 (NYC) October 15, 1922 (US) |
| Running time | 5 reels (5,130 feet) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent English intertitles |
The Ghost Breaker (1922) is an American silent film comedy based around haunted houses and ghosts. It was produced Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Alfred E. Green and starred popular Wallace Reid in one of his last screen portrayals. The story, based on the 1909 play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard[1], had been filmed before in 1914 by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel.
The film would be made again in the sound era as The Ghost Breakers (1940) with Bob Hope and as Scared Stiff (1953) starring Jerry Lewis.
The 1922 version is now considered a lost film.[2][3]
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