The Smiling Ghost

The Smiling Ghost is a film directed by Lewis Seiler in the horror comedy genre popular in the 1940s.

What Downing doesnt know is that Elinors three former fiancs have met horrible ends. The first, Johnny Eggleston, mysteriously drowned. The second, Paul Myron David Bruce, was paralyzed when his car rolled over and has been confined to an iron lung ever since. The third, Alan Winters, died by snakebite while on the 18th floor of a Boston hotel.Given the fate of her former beaus, there are those who believe Elinor is the victim of the Smiling Ghost, and she has been dubbed the Kiss of Death Girl by the local newspapers. Lil Barstow Brenda Marshall, a reporter who has followed the case closely, has been in touch with Myron, who persuades her to talk Downing out of the engagement before he too becomes a victim of the ghost. Lil attempts to intercept Lucky at the train station where he and his nervous valet, Clarence Willie Best, are to meet Elinor. Before Lil can warn Downing, however, Elinor smashes her camera and hustles Lucky and Clarence off to Bentley mansion. Downing is delighted to find Elinor so attractive and affectionate but has no idea what awaits him at the mansion. There he meets his prospective inlaws a diabolical greatuncle Ames Bentley Charles Halton, who shows Lucky his collection of shrunken heads and mentions that hes only missing a good Negroid specimen cousin Tennant Bentley Richard Ainley, who has a drinking problem and Uncle Hilton Fairchild Roland Drew and his wife Rose Lee Patrick, who will lose part of their fortune should Elinor marry. ........

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