The Ghost Comes Home

Mar 8, 1940

1h 19m

★ 5.0

Overview

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Vernon 'Vern' Adams

Frank Morgan

Cora Adams

Billie Burke

Billie Adams

Ann Rutherford

Lanny Shea

John Shelton

Hemingway

Reginald Owen

Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.

Donald Meek

Spigley 'Spig', a Band Member

Don Castle

Roscoe

Nat Pendleton

Ernest

Frank Albertson

Tony

Harold Huber

Ambrose Bundy

Hobart Cavanaugh

Myra

Ann Morriss

After the death of uncle Olivier, his estate, a small chateau in Provence and the small town's only undertaker firm in its cellar, befall equally and jointly to his local stepson André Vidal, who runs the business since Olivier semi-retired ill, and German cousin, business consultant Charlotte. She arrives from Frankfort to sell the estate at the skyrocketing prices for such idyllic hospitality industry sites. André is shocked, determined to preserve the town's social fabric by preserving Olivier's heritage, and disappointed she doesn't even recognize him as childhood best playmate. It turns out the backward taxes are a ticking bomb, which she sneakily intends to ignite, only André's charms and the lavender-scented bucolic way of life appeal ever more even to businesslike Charlotte.

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