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Writers:
Herman Cohen (writer)
Aben Kandel (writer)
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Tagline:
HEAD-HUNTING TEENAGERS LOST IN THE HAUNTED CASTLE!
Plot:
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their bit to help him find it. | add synopsis
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Cast

  (in credits order)
Richard Lyon ... Bill
Liliane Sottane ... Ingrid Joervets
David Rose ... Ronnie
Jack Allen ... The Live Earl of Ambrose
Clive Revill ... The Ghost of the Fourth Earl of Ambrose
Alexander Archdale ... The Ghost of Sir Randolph
John Stacy ... Parker
Carl Bernard ... Sgt. Grayson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mary Barclay ... Lady Ambrose
Trevor Barnett ... Strongman
Donald Bisset ... Guide
Josephine Blake ... Kooch Dancer Ghost
Patrick Connor ... Constable
Norah Hammond
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Directed by
Peter Graham Scott 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Herman Cohen  writer
Aben Kandel  writer (as Kenneth Langtry)

Produced by
Herman Cohen .... producer
 
Original Music by
Gerard Schurmann 
 
Cinematography by
John Wiles 
 
Film Editing by
Bernard Gribble 
 
Production Design by
C. Wilfred Arnold 
 
Makeup Department
Gordon Bond .... hair stylist
Jack Craig .... makeup artist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bill Shore .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Ronald Abbott .... sound
Derek Holding .... sound effects editor
Sidney Rider .... sound
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Maude Churchill .... wardrobe supervisor
 
Music Department
Muir Mathieson .... musical director
 

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USA:62 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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7 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
Silly, Harmless Fun, 24 January 2006
6/10
Author: R Becker

If you remember seeing this film on local TV -- as I do -- then you know it's a short, cheap, shot-in-England black-and-white comedy with a few random ghosts thrown in. But it's still fun! Not only does the film feature the first credited film appearances of Josephine Blake (who would later be a British musical star) and Clive Revill (a great British character actor), but it's got a guy named David Rose who is about as close to a 1950s teen comedy Regis Philbin as you'll ever find. I don't know where they dug up guys like this one (and Bobby Van, and all the other horror/SF/fantasy "comedy relief" guys), but they're a cliché -- uh, staple of the time that you just have to look back and chuckle about. If you find the pacing slow (it is) and the plot thin (it is) and the comedy weak (it is), at least you know it's not very long...

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