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The Ghost Breaker
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel

Cast: H.B. Warner [Warren Jarvis], Rita Stanwood [Princess Maria Theresa], Theodore Roberts [Prince of Aragon], Betty Johnson [Carmen], Jode Mullally [Don Luis], Horace B. Carpenter [Carlos, Duke D’Alva], Jeanne McPherson (Jeanie Macpherson) [Juanita, Carmen’s rival], Mabel Van Buren [Delores], Billy Elmer [Robledo], Dick La Strange [Maximo, the ghost], Fred Montegue [Gaspart, the ghost], Lucien Littlefield [Judge Jarvis], J.W. Burton [Rusty], J.W. Johnson [Markam]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / From the play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 20 November 1914 by Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated [LU3795]. Released 7 December 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was subsequently filmed as The Ghost Breaker (1922).

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 6 August 2024.

References: Everson-American p. 189 : Website-AFI.