Haunted Spooks (1920)

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (... See full summary »

Directors:

Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach

Writer:

H.M. Walker (titles)

Stars:

Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wallace Howe

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Harold Lloyd	...	The Boy
Mildred Davis	...	The Girl
Wallace Howe	...	The Uncle

Storyline

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.

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Plot Keywords:

inheritance | uncle | suicide | storm | automobile | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Short

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Certificate:

Passed

Details

Country:

USA

Release Date:

14 March 1920 (USA)

Also Known As:

Kummitusjahti

Filming Locations:

Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rolin Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

25 min 25 min (2004 video edition)

Sound Mix:

Silent

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Despite receiving a serious injury to his hand during the making of this film, Harold Lloyd continued to do his own stunts throughout his career.

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Quotes

[last lines]
The Girl: Say, what's our name?

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Connections

Featured in The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episode #1.2 (2011)

User Reviews

Did This Humorous Lloyd Comedy Inspire The Three Stooges?

I found this 25-minute Harold Lloyd short to be better and better as it went on. As with a number of silent film comedy shorts, it starts slow and finishes fantastically. This was great not just in the end from the halfway point on, filled with numerous nonsense. It reminded of many Three Stooges films in which the boys wind up in some hotel or house or castle where guys are trying to scare them off with skeleton outfits, gorillas, etc. Those are always funny, and so is this movie. Maybe it inspired some of that Stooges lunacy in the next decade.

Here, Harold - to get the girl, naturally - has to do something: in this case, visit a haunted mansion, where a few people are waiting to scare him away. Hey, that was better than trying to kill himself, which he unsuccessfully did in some humorous scenes in the first half of the movie.

Overall: good laughs.