Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Michael_Elliott Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944) *** (out of 4) Gildersleeve (Harold Peary) is in the middle of a heated election but soon gets caught up with a mad scientist, a mean gorilla and an invisible woman. Here's yet another horror comedy that takes place in a spooky house with a killer gorilla running around. This has been the plot for countless movies but I found this film to be one of the best of the genre with non-stop laughs and some pretty good special effects. I'd call this film better than any of Universal's "Invisible" films of the 40s and it also ranks as one of the better horror comedies of the era. The supporting cast is full of terrific comic actors who really add a lot of laughs to the film. Marion Martin, Richard LeGrand, Emory Parnell and Frank Reicher all do nice work in support of Peary. Black actor Nick Stewart gets a terrific role here and gets to show off his comic talent, which is very rare for a black actor in a Hollywood film from this period.

Neil Doyle Unfortunately, the above quoted line is the best line in the film and comes early on when the plot involves two ghosts of Gildersleeve's ancestors rising from the grave and deciding to help him become police commissioner. Mad scientists with a potion that makes a girl (MARION MARTIN) invisible and an ape on the loose are the ingredients that add to the plot's ill advised mixture of laughs and fright.RICHAD LeGRAND gets to say his famous line a little too often ("Well, I wouldn't say that"), and the scatterbrained cast includes AMELITA WARD, MARIE BLAKE and FREDDIE MERCER, all badly needing better material.The ectoplasm is indeed strained to the utmost and the result is a flat comedy in search of a good script. What might potentially have seemed like fun material for Gildersleeve is turned into a forgettable sophomoric mess.Not recommended, even for fans of the Gildersleeve radio comedy series.

75groucho I wanted to like it, I really did. As an old-time radio buff, I have a soft spot for movies like this one, and The Great Gildersleeve is one of my favorite characters. But there's no saving this turkey. It's a dreadful outing; the plot is a ridiculous farrago about the ghosts of Gildy's ancestors rising from the grave to help him thwart the machinations of a mad scientist with an invisibility potion. The movie starts out with a lame premise and flubs along to keep it afloat, making for very tedious viewing. A certain amount of contrivance is to be expected for any sitcom extended to feature length, but this movie takes it too far to be successful. All that needs to be said about 'Gildersleeve's Ghost' to get the idea of what viewers are in for is that much attempted hilarity is derived from confusion between a gorilla on the loose and various characters disguised in a gorilla costume. Final analysis: Almost unwatchable.

80334080 This a good example of the type of potboiler movie made to fill out the bottom half of a double feature program. Double features were very common in the 1930's and 40's and the second half were very cheaply produced and usually mediocre at best. The Guildersleeve series rarely rose to that level. "Guildersleeve's Ghost" is an attempt to create a comedy/mystery movie which is a hard job- it can easily become ridiculous and boring instead of funny and that is what has happened here. If you want to see better examples of the type try some of the Abbot and Costello series where they meet scary characters such as the Invisible Man,Frankenstein, the Mummy or Jekyll and Hyde. I think the best example of comedy/mystery is the 1939 haunted house Bob Hope movie "Cat and the Canary". But don't waste your time with "Guildersleeve's Ghost". The only amusing part of this movie is Hal Peary's laugh and Mr Peavey's classic line "Well I wouldn't say that"-not enough to support an hour long film !!