Three college age kids decide to spend the night in a gloomy old country British castle and end up in a comic mystery where they help the other worldly residents in their desire to move onto the next world. It's an amusing but inconsequential little B movie bought by American International for release in the United States, but has a charm that cannot be denied. The three intruders (Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose) act with tongue in cheek, making it obvious that they were having a ball making this, and each of the ghosts gets their own personality. In a sense, it reminded me of "The Canterville Ghost" and brought back ghostly memories of the opening sequence of a Betty Grable musical, "That Lady in Ermine", where a bundle of undead nobility sing about the desire to protect the castle they've been haunting from a foreign invader.
If I had been one of the college age kids acting in this film, it would be a difficult task in keeping myself from laughing at the antics of the hilarious character actors playing the castle phantoms. The headless ghost itself isn't credited, even for their voice, but they get a delicious sense of humor of the fate, while the first phantom seen (Clive Revill) is a noble soul throughout. Even the worst of the lot, a ghost whose desire to stay put where he is, isn't all scary, so this is a film that kids can enjoy, that is if they can get past some British cultural references and the black and white photography. In a sense, this could be compared to a Laurel and Hardy film or the Abbott and Costello film, "Hold That Ghost", where everybody is having fun, and the screenwriter's tongue distinctly inserted in cheek. There's even a "kooch dancer" ghost, giving a performance that must have even had the headless ghost's head spinning.
If I had been one of the college age kids acting in this film, it would be a difficult task in keeping myself from laughing at the antics of the hilarious character actors playing the castle phantoms. The headless ghost itself isn't credited, even for their voice, but they get a delicious sense of humor of the fate, while the first phantom seen (Clive Revill) is a noble soul throughout. Even the worst of the lot, a ghost whose desire to stay put where he is, isn't all scary, so this is a film that kids can enjoy, that is if they can get past some British cultural references and the black and white photography. In a sense, this could be compared to a Laurel and Hardy film or the Abbott and Costello film, "Hold That Ghost", where everybody is having fun, and the screenwriter's tongue distinctly inserted in cheek. There's even a "kooch dancer" ghost, giving a performance that must have even had the headless ghost's head spinning.