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	* [https://archive.org/download/ScreenGuildTheater/Sgt_44-08-21_ep208_The_Ghost_Goes_West.mp3 ''The Ghost Goes West''] on [[Screen Guild Theater]]: 21 August 1944		* [https://archive.org/download/ScreenGuildTheater/Sgt_44-08-21_ep208_The_Ghost_Goes_West.mp3 ''The Ghost Goes West''] on [[Screen Guild Theater]]: 21 August 1944

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{{Short description|1935 British film by René Clair}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2012}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Ghost Goes West
| image = The Ghost Goes West FilmPoster.jpeg
| caption =
| director = [[René Clair]]
| producer = [[Alexander Korda]]
| based_on = {{based on|the 1932 short story "Sir Tristram Goes West"|Eric Keown}}
| screenplay = [[Robert E. Sherwood]] (adaptation) [[Geoffrey Kerr]] (scenario)
| narrator =
| starring = [[Robert Donat]] [[Jean Parker]] [[Eugene Pallette]]
| music = [[Mischa Spoliansky]]
| cinematography = [[Harold Rosson]]
| editing = [[Henry Cornelius]] Harold Earle-Fishbacher
| studio = [[London Film Productions]]
| distributor = [[United Artists]]
| released = {{Film date|1935|12|17|UK|df=yes}}
| runtime = 80 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}

'''''The Ghost Goes West''''' is a 1935 British [[romantic comedy]]/[[fantasy film|fantasy]] film directed by [[René Clair]] and starring [[Robert Donat]], [[Jean Parker]], and [[Eugene Pallette]].<ref name="BFIsearch">{{Cite web |title=The Ghost Goes West |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150029504 |access-date=22 March 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}</ref> It was Clair's first English-language film. The story concerns an Old World ghost dealing with American materialism.

==Plot==
In 18th-century Scotland, Clan Glourie's enemy is Clan McLaggan, which is hated even more than the English. The McLaggan, the head of his clan, and his five sons go to fight the English. They pause at Glourie Castle to mock The Glourie and his clan as cowards. The outraged Glourie insists that one Glourie can thrash fifty McLaggans. The Glourie is too old and sick to fight, but he sends his only son Murdoch to the battle, even though Murdoch would rather spend his time kissing the lassies. At the Scottish encampment, Murdoch is outnumbered by the McLaggans and hides behind a barrel of gunpowder. An errant Scottish cannonball kills him, but in the afterlife he is stranded in [[Limbo]] due to his cowardice. His now-deceased father tells him he is doomed to haunt Glourie Castle until he can get a McLaggan to kneel and admit that one Glourie can thrash fifty McLaggans.

In the 20th century, Peggy Martin, the daughter of a rich American businessman, persuades her father to purchase Glourie Castle from Donald Glourie, who is besieged by his creditors. Donald agrees to sell for the £2,388 he owes, but is then outraged that Martin plans to dismantle his ancestral home and reassemble it in [[Florida]]; however, he is attracted to Peggy. Peggy meets the ghost of Murdoch on the castle battlements, but thinks he is Donald as they look exactly alike. Martin hires Donald to supervise the reconstruction in Florida, and along with the castle goes its ghost.

On the sea voyage to America, Donald has second thoughts, and he and Martin agree to cancel their deal. Martin's business rival, Ed Bigelow, sees a wonderful opportunity to publicize his products, and offers Donald $100,000 for the castle. Alarmed, Martin repurchases it for $150,000. Murdoch makes a spectral appearance before many witnesses, igniting a media frenzy, but Bigelow remains openly sceptical about the ghost. Murdoch's dalliances with other women, however, derail Donald's attempts at romance with Peggy, who still believes Murdoch is Donald.

In Florida, Martin hosts a lavish party to celebrate the castle's reassembly, but Murdoch refuses to make an appearance. Bigelow insults the Glouries during a radio broadcast, revealing he is a McLaggan on his mother's side. Murdoch chases him down and forces him to admit that one Glourie can thrash fifty McLaggans, and Murdoch is finally released to join his ancestors. Peggy, having realised her mistake, reconciles with Donald.

==Cast==
* [[Robert Donat]] as Murdoch Glourie and Donald Glourie
* [[Jean Parker]] as Peggy Martin
* [[Eugene Pallette]] as Mr. Martin
* [[Elsa Lanchester]] as Miss Shepperton
* Ralph Bunker as Ed. Bigelow
* [[Patricia Hilliard (actress)|Patricia Hilliard]] as shepherdess
* [[Everley Gregg]] as Mrs. Martin
* [[Morton Selten]] as The Glourie
* [[Chili Bouchier]] as Cleopatra
* [[Mark Daly (actor)|Mark Daly]] as Murdoch's Groom
* [[Herbert Lomas (actor)|Herbert Lomas]] as Fergus
* [[Elliott Mason]] as Mrs. MacNiff
* [[Hay Petrie]] as The McLaggan
* Quentin McPhearson as Mackaye

== Background ==
The film is an adaptation of Eric Keown's short story "Sir Tristam Goes West", and was written by [[Robert E. Sherwood]] and [[Geoffrey Kerr]], though Clair and [[Lajos Biro]] have been alleged by contemporary sources to have done uncredited writing on the screenplay.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AFI{{!}}Catalog|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/3868|access-date=2021-09-04|website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref>

This was the first of two films Clair made in England following a deal he made with producer [[Alexander Korda]], the other being his 1938 film ''[[Break the News (film)|Break the News]]''.

==Critical response==
Writing for ''[[The Spectator]]'' in 1935, [[Graham Greene]] praised the film. He wrote of how the "camera sense" of René Clair manifested itself in the film's "feeling of mobility, of visual freedom" and highlighted Clair's directorial genius. Greene also praised the acting of Pallette and Donat, describing Pallette's portrayal of an American millionaire as the finest performance of his career, and Donat's acting style as imbued with "invincible naturalness".<ref>{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 27 December 1935|title= The Ghost Goes West|journal= [[The Spectator]]}} (reprinted in: {{cite book|editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell|editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|url= https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/40|pages= [https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/40 40–41]|isbn= 0192812866|url-access= registration}})</ref>

''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' gave a mixed review: "If the continuity of the film appears in places rather thin, the satire occasionally a trifle obvious, and the humour sometimes a little mechanical, there are, nevertheless, some very good moments".<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/media/mfb/1008783/index.html |title=Ghost Goes West, The (1935) |journal=The Monthly Film Bulletin |volume=2 |number=23 |date=December 1935 |pages=194–195 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref>

''The Ghost Goes West'' was the 13th most popular film at the British box office in 1935–36.<ref>''The Film Business in the United States and Britain during the 1930s'' by John Sedgwick and Michael Pokorny, ''The Economic History Review'' New Series, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb., 2005), pp. 97</ref> The film was voted the best British movie of 1936 by readers of ''[[Film Weekly]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52148556 |title=BEST FILM PERFORMANCE LAST YEAR. |newspaper=[[The Examiner (Tasmania)|The Examiner]] |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=9 July 1937 |access-date=4 March 2013 |page=8|edition=LATE NEWS EDITION and DAILY|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Both the original treatment and the cutting continuity of the finished film were published in ''Successful Film Writing as Illustrated by 'The Ghost Goes West''' by Seton Margrave. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1936, ASIN:B002A8VVQW.

==See also==
* [[List of ghost films]]
* [[Ballavpurer Roopkotha]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{AllMovie title| 19641 }}
* {{TCMDb title| 76200 }}
* {{IMDb title| 0026406 }}
* {{AFI film|id=3868|title=The Ghost Goes West}}
* [https://archive.org/download/ScreenGuildTheater/Sgt_44-08-21_ep208_The_Ghost_Goes_West.mp3 ''The Ghost Goes West''] on [[Screen Guild Theater]]: 21 August 1944

{{René Clair}}
{{Alexander Korda}}

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	Both the original treatment and the cutting continuity of the finished film were published in ''Successful Film Writing as Illustrated by 'The Ghost Goes West''' by Seton Margrave. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1936, ASIN:B002A8VVQW.		Both the original treatment and the cutting continuity of the finished film were published in ''Successful Film Writing as Illustrated by 'The Ghost Goes West''' by Seton Margrave. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1936, ASIN:B002A8VVQW.

	~~==See also==~~
	* [[List of ghost films]]
	* [[Ballavpurer Roopkotha]]

	==References==		==References==

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