Haunted Spooks
(1920) American
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Hal Roach and Alf Goulding (Alfred J. Goulding)

Cast: Harold Lloyd [the boy], Mildred Davis [the girl], Wallace Howe [the uncle], Ernie Morrison, Noah Young, William Gillespie, Mark Jones, Gaylord Lloyd

Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated, production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Produced by Hal Roach. Cinematography by Walter Lundin. Intertitles by H.M. Walker. Presented by Hal Roach. / Released 21 March 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Lloyd’s first film after his accident. [?] Braff-Short n. 9112 lists the release date as 31 March 1920.

Comedy.

Synopsis: Harold loses his girl, but becomes a groom after trying to commit suicide. Harold and his new bride must stay in a haunted mansion for one year to own it.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive, in the

film archive, in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive, in the Cinémathèque Québécoise film archive, in Det Danske Filminstitut film archive, and in the Filmoteca Espanola film archive; also in private film collections [8mm reduction positives].

Keywords: African-Americans - Animals: Cats, Pigs - Birds: Chickens, Ducks - Boats - Boy Scouts - Bridges - Canes - Children - Closets - Cotton - Domestics: Butlers, Cooks - Feather dusters - Furniture: Beds - Games: Tennis - Ghosts - Hats: Straw - Inheritances - Kissing - Lightning - Marriages - Ministers - Oars - Parks - Pipes - Ponds - Rain - Rich people - Shadows - Storms - Streetcars - Street scenes - Suicide (Attempted) - Tobacco: Cigarettes - Toys: Squirt guns - Transportation: Automobiles, Trams - Umbrellas - Watches - Weapons: Guns - Weddings - Wills

Listing updated: 11 May 2009.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Bardèche-History p. 213; Braff-Short n. 9112; Brownlow-Parade p. 463; Kerr-Silent p. 116; Reilly-Lloyd p. 4; Skretvedt-LaurelHardy p. 130 : Website-Lloyd.

Home video: DVD.