The Smiling Ghost
1941 film by Lewis Seiler
The Smiling Ghost is a 1941 film about an heiress who seems to be cursed as each of her intended grooms meets with a horrible end.
- Directed by Lewis Seiler. Written by Kenneth Gamet, based on a story by Stuart Palmer.
Lil Barstow
edit- Listen, it's more than an accident when a cobra strikes a man on the 18th floor of a Boston hotel.
Other
edit- Grandmother Bentley: You need a different barber, young man. That haircut looks like an inside job.
Dialogue
edit- Elinor Bentley: What kind of a kiss do you prefer?
- Alexander "Lucky" Downing: You mean there's more than one kind?
- Elinor Bentley: I thought you were a college man.
- Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Oh, I guess I was too busy studying chemical experiments to learn more than just plain old every day kissing.
- Elinor Bentley: Suppose we try that?
- Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Well, all right. [Kisses her lightly on the cheek] Goodnight.
- Elinor Bentley: You must have been a whiz at chemistry.
- Clarence: [Carrying bags up the stairs] What do a valet do?
- Norton: [Also carrying bags up the stairs] You mean you don't know?
- Clarence: No, sir.
- Norton: Then that makes two of us don't know.
- Clarence: Boss, if you hear something whizzing by you, it'll be me.
- Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Why, Clarence, don't tell me you're afraid.
- Clarence: I ain't afraid, but my feets ain't gonna stand around and see my body abused.
- Clarence: That Mr. Bentley must have been seeing things.
- Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Well that's what whiskey does to a person Clarence. Now let that be a lesson to you.
- Clarence: You're right boss. From now on I'll drink nothing but straight gin.
- Clarence: Well, boss, we're locked in.
- Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Try turning the doorknob.
- Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Clarence, you turn around and stop acting like a coward.
- Clarence: What makes you think I'm acting?
- Clarence: Mr. Lucky, you best be getting ready. The Justice of the... stuff is here. How you feeling?
- Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Like a guy who's about to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel...
- Norton: Ain't a thing for you to worry about, pal. I'm loaded to the hilt.
- Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Oh, what's this gonna be - a wedding or a Wild West show?
Cast
edit- Wayne Morris — Alexander "Lucky" Downing
- Alexis Smith — Elinor Bentley
- Alan Hale — Norton
- Brenda Marshall — Lil Barstow
- Lee Patrick — Rose Fairchild
- David Bruce — Paul Myron
- Helen Westley — Grandmother Bentley
- Willie Best — Clarence
- Charles Halton — Great-Uncle Ames Bentley
- Richard Ainley — Cousin Tennant Bentley
- Roland Drew — Uncle Hilton Fairchild
- George Meader — Mr. Dinwiddie
- Clem Bevans — Sexton
External links
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- The Smiling Ghost quotes at the Internet Movie Database