Ghosts
AKA The Curse and The Wreck in the USA
(1915) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by George Nichols

Cast: Henry B. Walthall [Captain Arling], Mary Alden, Loretta Blake, Nigel de Brulier, Juanita Archer, Thomas Jefferson, Erich von Stroheim [white-haired executive]

Majestic Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Mutual Masterpicture]. / Produced by D.W. Griffith. Scenario by Russell E. Smith, from the play Genganere (Ghosts) by Henrik Ibsen. / Released June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was reedited (with new intertitles) and rereleased in 1919 as The Curse on State Rights basis by Exhibitor’s Film Exchange (which had previously announced the film to be released under the title The Wreck).

Drama: Social.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1547.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Authors: Henrik Ibsen - Medical: Disease: Venereal

Listing updated: 30 November 2004.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1547; Everson-American p. 369; Limbacher-Feature p. 92; Tarbox-Lost pp. 227, 229, 247.