The Spook Speaks
The Spook Speaks | |
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Directed by | Jules White |
Produced by | Jules White |
Written by |
Clyde Bruckman Edwart Adamson |
Starring |
Buster Keaton Dorothy Appleby Elsie Ames Lynton Brendt Bruce Bennett Don Beddoe |
Cinematography | Henry Freulich |
Edited by | Mel Thorsen |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Spook Speaks (1940) is the sixth short subject starring Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures.
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.[1]
Cast
- Buster Keaton as the caretaker
- Elsie Ames as his wife
- Lynton Brendt as Professor Mordini
- Dorothy Appleby as the newlywed wife
- Don Beddoe as the newlywed husband
- Bruce Bennett as the former assistant
- Orson the penguin
See also
External links
- The Spook Speaks at the Internet Movie Database
- The Spook Speaks at the International Buster Keaton Society
References
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