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The Spook Speaks

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The Spook Speaks
Directed byJules White
Written byClyde Bruckman
Ewart Adamson
Produced byJules White
StarringBuster Keaton
Dorothy Appleby
Elsie Ames
Lynton Brent
Bruce Bennett
Don Beddoe
CinematographyHenry Freulich
Edited byMel Thorsen
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • September 20, 1940 (1940-09-20)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Spook Speaks is a 1940 film directed by Jules White. It is the sixth short subject starring Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures.

Plot

Buster and his wife Elsie Ames are temps sent to a house owned by a spiritualist/magician Professor Mordini (Lynton Brent), where they are to act as caretakers. Mordini leaves on a vacation and warns the couple not to let his former assistant in the house to steal his secrets. Spooky gags follow, along with a penguin on roller skates. A newlywed couple arrives (Dorothy Appleby and Don Beddoe), and the wife is fascinated by spiritualism. Mordini's vengeful former assistant Bruce Bennett breaks into the house and finds Mordini's master controls, scaring everyone out of the house at last.

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