In Ghost Crazy, carnival performers Shemp Howard & Billy Gilbert team with wacky chauffeur Maxie Rosenbloom try to save an heiress from murder
Ghost Crazy (1944) aka. Crazy Knights, starring Shemp Howard, Billy Gilbert
Product Description
Join Shemp Howard and Billy Gilbert as carnival performers who team with wacky chauffeur Maxie Rosenbloom in a haunted mansion, where they try to save an heiress from a murder plot. Along the way, our hilarious heroes must deal with plenty of spooky thrills–including problems caused by a gorilla on the loose.
The film is also known as Crazy Knights. Produced by Sam Katzman and Jack Dietz. Directed by William Beaudine. Cinematography by Marcel Le Picard.
Comedy highlights
- The “haunted painting” routine with Billy and Shemp is quite funny.
- A lot of verbal humor, primarily by Shemp, Billy,Maxie.
- Billy’s “boomerang hat” routine.
Cast of characters
- Billy Gilbert (The Great Dictator; His Girl Friday) … Billy
- Shemp Howard (Soup to Nuts; The Invisible Woman) … Shemp
- Maxie Rosenbloom (Punch Drunks) … Maxie
- Tim Ryan (Reveille with Beverly) … Grogan
- Jayne Hazard (Daredevils of the Clouds) … Joan Gardner
- Tay Dunn (Danny Boy) … Ralph Williams
- Minerva Urecal (The Ape Man; The Corpse Vanishes) … Mrs. Benson
- John Hamilton (The Maltese Falcon; The Adventures of Superman) … Mr. Gardner
- Bernard Sell … Dave Hammon
- Betty Sinclair … Girl
- Buster Brodie … Baldy
- Art Miles … Barney the Gorilla
- Dan White … Electrician
- I. Stanford Jolley … Crook (uncredited)
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Trivia
- A quickie shot at the Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles from August 7-12 1944.
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