The Ghost goes West

Starring: Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette
Directed by: René Clair
Review: Dave Burbidge
Release date: Jan 2008

Peggy Martin (Parker), is the daughter of a rich American (Eugene), and persuades him to purchase a Scottish castle from Donald Glourie (Donat), and move it to brick by brick to Florida. Along with the castle goes the ghost of Murdoch Glourie (Donat) who died a cowardin the 18th century. He can only find his rest when a memeber of Clan MacClaggan admits that one Glourie is worth fifty MacClaggans.

This is a romantic comedy from 1936 that is still sprkling some seven decades later. There is plenty of space for cultural misunderstandings and some old fashioned xenophobia. Naturally there is a villain in America who will get his comeuppance and also some transatlantic wooing as well.