Three Live Ghosts | |
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Directed by | H. Bruce Humberstone |
Screenplay by | C. Gardner Sullivan |
Based on | Three Live Ghosts 1920 play by Frederic S. Isham Max Marcin |
Produced by | John W. Considine Jr. |
Starring | Richard Arlen Beryl Mercer Claud Allister Cecilia Parker |
Cinematography | James Wong Howe Chester A. Lyons |
Edited by | Tom Held |
Music by | William Axt |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 61 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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The film was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a remake of the 1929 film of the same title, itself based on a 1920 play by Frederic S. Isham inspired by his own 1918 novel. [3]
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