Edited by Mel Thorsen Initial release 20 September 1940 (USA) | Produced by Jules White Director Jules White | |
Written by Clyde BruckmanEdwart Adamson Starring Buster KeatonDorothy ApplebyElsie AmesLynton BrendtBruce BennettDon Beddoe Cast Similar The Taming of the Snood, She's Oil Mine, Mooching Through Georgia, Pest from the West, The E‑Flat Man | ||
The Spook Speaks (1940) is the sixth short subject starring Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures.
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Plot
Buster and wife Elsie Ames are caretakers of a house owned by a spiritualist/magician Professor Mordini (Lynton Brendt). Almost scared out of the house, Mordini convinces them to stay. Mordini leaves on a vacation and warns the couple not to let his former assistant in the house to steal his secrets. While away spooky gags follow along with a penguin on roller skates. A newlywed couple arrive Dorothy Appleby and husband Don Beddoe. Of course the former evil assistant Bruce Bennett arrives and adds to the mayhem.
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The Spook Speaks Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA