The Ghoul

Infobox Film
name = The Ghoul


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director = T. Hayes Hunter
producer = Michael Balcon
writer = Frank King (play)
Rupert Downing
Leonard Hines
Roland Pertwee
John Hastings Turner
starring = Boris Karloff
Cedric Hardwicke
Ernest Thesiger
Ralph Richardson
music = Louis Levy
Leighton Lucas
cinematography = Günther Krampf
art direction = Alfred Junge
editing = Ian Dalrymple
Ralph Kemplen
distributor = Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
released = 1933
runtime = 77 min
country = UK
language = English
budget =
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amg_id = 1:19699
imdb_id = 0024055

"The Ghoul" is a 1933 British Horror film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger and Ralph Richardson, whose debut film this was. The plot centres around a Professor (Karloff) who is to be buried with an Egyptian jewel in order to attain eternal life. When the jewel is stolen by his servant, the professor rises from the dead to reclaim it.

The film, based on the play and novel by Dr. Frank King and Leonard J. Hines, was once considered to be a lost film since the original nitrate negative had succumbed to decomposition and no prints of the film were known to exist. However, an incomplete and partly decomposed Czech release print was discovered which was the only available print for several decades. Then, finally, an excellent quality print was discovered in the archives of the British Film Institute. It has since been made available on DVD.

Cast

* Boris Karloff as Prof. Morlant
* Cedric Hardwicke as Broughton
* Ernest Thesiger as Laing
* Dorothy Hyson as Betty Harlon
* Anthony Bushell as Ralph Morlant
* Kathleen Harrison as Kaney
* Harold Huth as Aga Ben Dragore
* D.A. Clarke-Smith as Mahmoud
* Ralph Richardson as Nigel Hartley
* Jack Raine as Davis, the chauffeur (uncredited)
* George Relph as Doctor (uncredited)

ee also

* Boris Karloff filmography

External links

*imdb title|id=0024055|title=The Ghoul
*amg title|1:19699|The Ghoul
* [http://www.horror-wood.com/karghoul.htm Karloff in "The Ghoul"]