The Smiling Ghost

The Smiling Ghost is a 1941 film about an heiress who seems to be cursed as each of her intended grooms meets with a horrible end.
 * Directed by Lewis Seiler. Written by Kenneth Gamet, based on a story by Stuart Palmer.

Lil Barstow

 * Listen, it's more than an accident when a cobra strikes a man on the 18th floor of a Boston hotel.

Other

 * Grandmother Bentley: You need a different barber, young man. That haircut looks like an inside job.

Dialogue

 * Elinor Bentley: What kind of a kiss do you prefer?
 * Alexander "Lucky" Downing: You mean there's more than one kind?
 * Elinor Bentley: I thought you were a college man.
 * Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Oh, I guess I was too busy studying chemical experiments to learn more than just plain old every day kissing.
 * '''Elinor Bentley: Suppose we try that?
 * Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Well, all right. [Kisses her lightly on the cheek] Goodnight.
 * Elinor Bentley: You must have been a whiz at chemistry.


 * Clarence: [Carrying bags up the stairs] What do a valet do?
 * Norton: [Also carrying bags up the stairs] You mean you don't know?
 * Clarence: No, sir.
 * Norton: Then that makes two of us don't know.


 * Clarence: Boss, if you hear something whizzing by you, it'll be me.
 * Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Why, Clarence, don't tell me you're afraid.
 * Clarence: I ain't afraid, but my feets ain't gonna stand around and see my body abused.


 * Clarence: That Mr. Bentley must have been seeing things.
 * Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Well that's what whiskey does to a person Clarence. Now let that be a lesson to you.
 * Clarence: You're right boss. From now on I'll drink nothing but straight gin.


 * Clarence: Well, boss, we're locked in.
 * Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Try turning the doorknob.


 * Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Clarence, you turn around and stop acting like a coward.
 * Clarence: What makes you think I'm acting?


 * Clarence: Mr. Lucky, you best be getting ready. The Justice of the... stuff is here. How you feeling?
 * Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Like a guy who's about to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel...


 * Norton: Ain't a thing for you to worry about, pal. I'm loaded to the hilt.
 * Alexander "Lucky" Downing: Oh, what's this gonna be - a wedding or a Wild West show?

Cast

 * Wayne Morris — Alexander "Lucky" Downing
 * Alexis Smith — Elinor Bentley
 * Alan Hale — Norton
 * Brenda Marshall — Lil Barstow
 * Lee Patrick — Rose Fairchild
 * David Bruce — Paul Myron
 * Helen Westley — Grandmother Bentley
 * Willie Best — Clarence
 * Charles Halton — Great-Uncle Ames Bentley
 * Richard Ainley — Cousin Tennant Bentley
 * Roland Drew — Uncle Hilton Fairchild
 * George Meader — Mr. Dinwiddie
 * Clem Bevans — Sexton