Haunted Spooks

Haunted Spooks is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis.

The opening sequence has an uncle reading a telegram regarding a will. It tells him that his niece Mildred will inherit the house and plantation as long as she lives there for a year with her husband. He tells his wife that they must scare them out of the house. A lawyer visits the niece to tell her of the will. She tells him she isnt married and he says he can resolve the problem.We then jump to Harold who is disappointed in love and vying for the attention of the Other Girl in rivalry with her other potential suitor. They compete to be first to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Harold wins but when he returns to the girl she is in the arms of yet a third man, so he gives up. He then tries, with notable lack of success, to commit suicide. Firstly using a gun he finds on a path, which turns out to be a waterpistol then standing in front of a tram, which takes a sudden turn then he ties a rock around his neck and jumps off a low bridge into a lake, but this fails as it is only inches deep he then picks a second bridge, but lands in a boat and finally stands in front of a car, which stops in time, but contains the lawyer from the earlier scene. He takes Harold to Mildred and arranges their marriage. ........

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