The Ghost (1963 film)
The Ghost Italian title Lo Spettro is a 1963 Italian horror film directed by Riccardo Freda, using the pseudonym Robert Hampton. The film stars Barbara Steele and Peter Baldwin. Other titles for the film include The Spectre and Lo Spettro del Dr. Hichcock.
During the distribution of Hichcocks estate, Catherine and Livingstone receive very little. Learning that the key to the doctors safe was buried with him, they secretly open his grave to retrieve it. The safe is empty. Margaret and Livingstone hear Hichcocks voice calling to them, and experience poltergeist phenomena. Margaret eventually learns from these encounters that Hichcocks fortune is buried beneath his coffin. She returns to the grave but only an empty box is found beneath the casket. Catherine, apparently possessed, tells Margaret that Livingstone has taken the jewels for himself. Margaret lures her lover into a cellar and murders him.Margaret is drawn to Hichcocks room by the ringing of his carillon, where she contemplates suicide by poison. Hichcock appears, alive and well. He kills his accomplice, Catherine, leaves evidence to incriminate Margaret, and sends anonymous notice to the authorities. Believing that Margaret has poured herself a glass of gin, Hichcock drinks it and makes a toast. He immediately realizes he has poisoned himself. He begs Margaret for the antidote, but she destroys the vial. The police arrive and arrest Margaret for Catherines murder. Hichcock seals himself inside a secret passage to die unseen. ........
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