The Canterville Ghost
It puts you in the best of spirits!
In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles?
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Charles Laughton
Sir Simon de Canterville
Charles Laughton
The Ghost
Robert Young
Cuffy Williams
Margaret O'Brien
Lady Jessica de Canterville
William Gargan
Sergeant Benson
Reginald Owen
Lord Canterville
Rags Ragland
Big Harry
Una O'Connor
Mrs. Umney
Donald Stuart
Sir Valentine Williams
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Polverdine
Frank Faylen
Lieutenant John Kane
George Bassman
Composer
👤
Robert H. Planck
Cinematographer
