The Living Ghost stars James Dunn as Nick Trayne, a retired detective hired to look into the mysterious disappearance of banker Walter Craig. Working with Craig's pert secretary Billie Hilton (Joan Woodbury), Nick is questioning Craig's alarmingly suspicious friends and relatives when the missing banker (Gus Glassmire) suddenly turns up in a strange, zombie-like state. Soon a dead body is discovered, and the trail leads Nick and Billie to a nearby shack where strange experiments have recently been conducted and, in time, to the real culprit.
During the entire case Billie has been both helpful as well as a royal pain-in-the-neck to Nick, and of course the two fall in love. In the final scene after kissing Billie, who is now his future bride, Nick suddenly remembers what a hard time she has given him throughout the case. He then chases her out the front door (where even though the door closes and we do not get to follow them outside) we can clearly hear Nick giving Billie something he had promised her early on in the case: a good old-fashioned spanking!
The Living Ghost is a much overlooked and underrated crime melodrama with horror and comedy touches.
During the entire case Billie has been both helpful as well as a royal pain-in-the-neck to Nick, and of course the two fall in love. In the final scene after kissing Billie, who is now his future bride, Nick suddenly remembers what a hard time she has given him throughout the case. He then chases her out the front door (where even though the door closes and we do not get to follow them outside) we can clearly hear Nick giving Billie something he had promised her early on in the case: a good old-fashioned spanking!
The Living Ghost is a much overlooked and underrated crime melodrama with horror and comedy touches.
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