Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Steineded How sad is this?

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

MartinHafer "The Ghost Goes West" is a cute movie which is an interesting hybrid. It's directed by the famous French director René Clair, stars the British actor Robert Donat and many of the actors are Americans! It sounds odd...but it all works very well.The film begins two hundred years ago. Murdock Glourie (Donat) is the son of a noble Scottish lord but he ends up embarrassing himself and losing the family honor when he's supposed to be out acting manly and fighting a war. He ends up getting killed by mistake and his father curses him to roam the family castle until he regains their honor.Years pass. The family fortune is gone and the castle is a wreck. Donald Glourie (also played by Donat) has a mountain of debts and he and his creditors see no escaping it...until some goofy Americans with more money than common sense see the place and decide to buy it! Oddly, while Donald tries to keep the family out of the castle after midnight (when the ghost appears each night), the daughter (Jean Parker) sees the ghost and thinks it's Donald...and she thinks this version of 'Donald' is pretty sexy! Regardless, the goofy father (Eugene Palette) decides to move the castle, stone by stone, to Florida....and he invites over a bunch of rich swells to see the castle AND the ghost. What's next? See the film.This is a cute film with a nice comedic touch and a touch of romance. While it's all very slight, it's handled well by Clair and the film is a delightful outing. Well worth seeing.

Robert J. Maxwell The Laird of Glourie Castle dies in battle in 1747 and is doomed to haunt the castle at midnight until he restores the clan's honor by humiliating a member of the rival clan, the MacClaggans. Centuries pass; the ghost (Donat) shows up on time, bored; the castle falls into desuetude; the current penniless owner (also Donat) manages to sell the castle to an American millionaire (Pallet) and his pretty daughter (Parker), who import it brick by brick to Florida to promote his brand of "fine foods." Both Donat the owner and Donat the ghost go with the castle but the Americans don't find out about it until too late. The living Donat falls for the daughter and vice versa, but the ghostly Donat has an eye for pretty girls too. There follows confusion, mixed identities, and a final laying of the ghost. That is, the ghost goes away for good.It's a relaxing, enjoyable, light-hearted fable about ghosts and romance and the social world of 1936. I'd have enjoyed it as no more than that when I was a kid. Now that I am an adult, and a bit more, I take up that glass and see things through it darkly again.Well, not really "darkly." Just that there now seems to be an ill-hidden message behind the whiz-bang pageantry. I don't know how America ever came to acquire a reputation for wealth during the dog days of the Great Depression. Life for most in the USA was as bitter as it was for anyone, anywhere else. The myth of American opulence may have been started by the movies. People watched Fred and Ginger waltz around in wedding-cake settings wearing evening dress and ballroom gowns. And here is a vulgar American millionaire -- Eugene Pallet, whose voice sounds like Grendel growling from the back of his cave. He's a likable enough figure but stupid and tasteless. A full suit of medieval armor that comes with the castle is turned into a radio. It's like one of those table lamps in the shape of Venus de Milo with a clock embedded in her belly.In George Orwell's frightening essays in "Down and Out in Paris and London," he meets some American tourists who are loud and full of self display while Orwell himself joins the ranks of those who are literally starving to death. He's quite open about his hatred.None of that detracts from the fey quality of this romantic comedy/ ghost story. It's a lot of fun. The performances are up to par. I wish the castle had had more atmosphere than it does. Clair's set designer was to bring far more atmosphere to the lodgings on the island in "And Then There Were None." The adults will find this diverting and the kids may get a kick out of the ghost and the mixed identity theme.

Ron Oliver When a haunted Scottish castle is dismantled and removed to Florida THE GHOST GOES WEST, too.Made under the auspices of producer Sir Alexander Korda, acclaimed director René Clair & distinguished author Robert E. Sherwood, here is a fine little film--very popular in its day--for thoughtful intellects, about things which go bump in the night. Or, rather, one thing in particular: a kilted phantom doomed to stalk his ancestral castle until his family's honour is avenged--irregardless of the actual physical location of his old stones, or whatever romantic complications may ensue.Handsome Robert Donat brings just the right amount of sophisticated humor to the dual roles of the ghost and his 20th century descendant. The lovely Jean Parker is splendid as an American rich girl very happy to take the Highlands real estate if Mr. Donat comes along with it. Playing her father, Eugene Palette exhibits both bluster & bemusement as the merchant grocer determined on buying old Glourie Castle, ghost and all.Morton Selten & Hay Petrie have amusing short roles as clan lairds who are fierce antagonists. The marvelous Elsa Lanchester appears far too briefly at the film's conclusion as a paranormal enthusiast.Acknowledgment should go to Vincent Korda for his atmospheric sets. And just what is the difference betwixt a thistle in the heather & a kiss in the dark?

smithy-8 "The Ghost Goes West" is Robert Donat's only and best romantic comedy. Mr. Donat only made nineteen movies - they were dramas or light dramas. This movie is hysterical. It helps to have Eugene Pallette play the father of the girl (Jean Parker) that Donat's character loves. Mr. Donat plays two roles - Murdock Glourie (the ghost) and Donald Glourie (the current proprietor of the Scottish castle).This was Eugene Pallette's first great speaking role. The other great roles he played were in: "My Man Godfrey", "Robin Hood", "Zorro", "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", "The Lady Eve", and "Heaven Can Wait."It is fun to watch the unknown cast - most of them did not continue working in the 1940's and so on. Only Donat, Parker, and Pallette were lucky to continue working. Ms. Parker is still alive and living comfortably at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, CA.