The Canterville Ghost (1944)

19441h 32mdir. Jules Dassin, Norman Z. McLeodUnited Statescomedy filmfantasy film

With Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, William Gargan, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor, Frank Faylen, Mike Mazurki

Directed by Jules Dassin, Norman Z. McLeod

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The Canterville Ghost is a 1944 fantasy/comedy film directed by Jules Dassin, loosely based on the 1887 short story of the same title by Oscar Wilde. It starred Charles Laughton as a ghost doomed to haunt an English castle, and Robert Young as his distant American relative called upon to perform an act of bravery to redeem him.

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