| Three Live Ghosts | |
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| Directed by | George Fitzmaurice |
| Written by | Ouida Bergère Margaret Turnbull |
| Based on | Three Live Ghosts 1920 play by Frederic S. Isham Max Marcin |
| Produced by | Adolph Zukor |
| Starring | Norman Kerry |
| Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
| Distributed by | Famous Players–Lasky British Producers |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Three Live Ghosts is a 1922 British comedy film directed by George Fitzmaurice. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is based on a 1920 Broadway play, Three Live Ghosts, by Frederic S. Isham and Max Marcin. Actor Cyril Chadwick is the only performer from the play to appear in the film.[1][2] A copy of the film, thought to be lost, was found in a Russian archive and shown publicly in 2015.[3] This version had however been radically re-edited by Soviet censors in the 1920s, making the film a searing critique of post-war Britain, including its relations with Ireland, which achieved Dominion status in the year the film was first shown.[4]
- ^ Three Live Ghosts as produced on Broadway at the Greenwich Village Theatre, September 29, 1920 to May 1921, 250 performances; IBDb.com
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Three Live Ghosts". Silent Era. Retrieved 17 August 2009.
- ^ "Lost Hitchcock film to be shown publicly for the first time in nearly 100 years". De Montfort University. 9 September 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
- ^ Missing believed garbled: Hitchcock’s first steps in film