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Ghosts (1915 film)

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Release date
  
June 1915

Country
  
USA

Produced by
  
D. W. Griffith

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Written by
  
Russell E. Smith

Running time
  
49 minutes

Initial release
  
1915

Distributed by
  
Mutual Film Company

Directed by
  
George Nichols John Emerson

Based on
  
play Ghosts(sw: Gengangere) by Henrik Ibsen

Directors
  
John Emerson, George Nichols

Similar
  
Ghost, Macbeth, Reaching for the Moon, His Picture in the Papers, The Ghost

Ghosts is a 1915 silent film drama based on the famous play Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen. It was directed by George Nichols and John Emerson. D. W. Griffith produced the film and Erich von Stroheim served in several capacities as technical advisor, wardrobe assistant and costume designer. George Siegmann was an assistant director. The film had an alternate or working title The Wreck.

The play Gengangere was first performed in America in 1894.

A copy is preserved in the Library of Congress collection. And copies are also held at George Eastman Museum and UCLA Film & Television Archive

Cast

  • Henry B. Walthall - Captain Arling/Oswald
  • Mary Alden - Helen Arling
  • Loretta Blake - Regina

    • unbilled

  • Juanita Archer - Johanna
  • Monte Blue - Bohemian in Paris
  • John Emerson -
  • Al W. Filson - Family Doctor
  • Karl Formes - Henrik Ibsen
  • Chandler House - Oswald as a Boy
  • Thomas Jefferson - Johanna's Unseeing Husband

    • References

    Ghosts (1915 film) Wikipedia
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