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El caballero de ultratumba

Título original: The Ghost Comes Home
  • 1940
  • Approved
  • 1h 19min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
5.9/10
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TU CALIFICACIÓN
Billie Burke, Frank Morgan, and John Shelton in El caballero de ultratumba (1940)
ComediaDramaRomance

Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA missing man returns and learns his wife collected on his life insurance.A missing man returns and learns his wife collected on his life insurance.A missing man returns and learns his wife collected on his life insurance.

  • Dirección
    • Wilhelm Thiele
  • Guionistas
    • Richard Maibaum
    • Harry Ruskin
    • Georg Kaiser
  • Elenco
    • Frank Morgan
    • Billie Burke
    • Ann Rutherford
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    5.9/10
    289
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Wilhelm Thiele
    • Guionistas
      • Richard Maibaum
      • Harry Ruskin
      • Georg Kaiser
    • Elenco
      • Frank Morgan
      • Billie Burke
      • Ann Rutherford
    • 15Opiniones de los usuarios
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    Frank Morgan
    Frank Morgan
    • Vern Adams
    Billie Burke
    Billie Burke
    • Cora Adams
    Ann Rutherford
    Ann Rutherford
    • Billie Adams
    John Shelton
    John Shelton
    • Lanny Shea
    Reginald Owen
    Reginald Owen
    • Hemingway
    Donald Meek
    Donald Meek
    • Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.
    Nat Pendleton
    Nat Pendleton
    • Roscoe
    Frank Albertson
    Frank Albertson
    • Ernest
    Harold Huber
    Harold Huber
    • Tony
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    Hobart Cavanaugh
    • Ambrose Bundy
    Ann Morriss
    Ann Morriss
    • Myra
    Don Castle
    Don Castle
    • 'Spig'
    Tom Rutherford
    Tom Rutherford
    • Mortimer Hopkins, Jr.
    Renie Riano
    Renie Riano
    • Sarah Osborn
    Richard Carle
    Richard Carle
    • John Reed Thomas
    King Baggot
    King Baggot
    • Townsman at Banquet
    • (sin créditos)
    William A. Boardway
    William A. Boardway
    • Townsman at Banquet
    • (sin créditos)
    Buck
    Buck
    • Dog in Pet Shop
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    • Dirección
      • Wilhelm Thiele
    • Guionistas
      • Richard Maibaum
      • Harry Ruskin
      • Georg Kaiser
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    Opiniones de usuarios15

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    7PaulCurt

    Amusing Frank Morgan vehicle

    This fairly standard piece of situation comedy would be most appealing to fans of Frank Morgan, who is charming in his role. There is a curious appeal in seeing The Wizard of Oz married to Glinda the Good Witch, but unfortunately Billie Burke is in only a few scenes.

    The script has some funny lines, and I'd be intrigued to find out how much of the dialogue was contributed by screenwriter Richard Maibaum, who wrote a lot of the James Bond movies.

    Geez, this comment sounds much more lukewarm than I actually feel about the movie. Morgan is delightful and I enjoyed the time I spent watching the film...to about the same degree that I'd enjoy three good TV sitcoms.
    6atlasmb

    A Rather Weak Comedy

    Frank Morgan reunites with Billie Burke---not long after "The Wizard of Oz"---to play a married couple in this attempt at screwball comedy that falls short due to a script that lurches from scene to scene.

    The story revolves around a misunderstanding. Everyone thinks Vern Adams (Morgan) died in a sea tragedy. His unexpected return launches a series of deceptions that create a hectic pace but few genuine laughs.

    The colorful cast is worth seeing, however. Especially Ann Rutherford, between Andy Hardy films, who plays the Adams' daughter. Unfortunately, she is underused despite her strong contribution to the film's only romantic storyline.
    6AlsExGal

    Probably made as a star vehicle for John Shelton...

    ... and if you've never heard of him then you know how well that went. Well, not everybody could be Van Johnson!

    MGM certainly put a pretty good effort into this one, putting their better character actors and actresses in leading roles here, and in 1940 MGM had some of the best supporting actors around. It is all about a hapless pet shop owner, Vern Adams, who actually buys more animals than he sells who has an opportunity to sail to Australia and help an old friend divvy up half a million dollars for the town he is from. Before he leaves, he is talked into buying ten thousand dollars in travel insurance from one of his boarders.

    Well, Vern is as bad a traveler as he is a businessman, and he winds up in jail in New York City for two months through a series of unfortunate events and never gets to travel to Australia. In the meantime the rich friend dies without making provisions for the town, but worse, the ship Vern was going to sail on sinks with no survivors. Vern's family naturally thinks he died and cashes in the life insurance policy, which certainly improves their lives - this was like two hundred thousand dollars back in 1940. But then "the ghost comes home" and the family realizes the insurance company will want their money back and they've already spent it. How does this work out? Watch and find out.

    This has a fairly clever plot and pretty good acting. If you are a fan of the MGM formula and MGM stars - even the smaller ones - it is probably worth your time. Morgan is great as always as the befuddled "ghost" and Billie Burke excels as his dizzy but disappointed wife. Ann Rutherford is the Adams' daughter who fears she may have to marry the son of the town banker if she wants to get dad out of this insurance mess, and John Shelton plays the guy she really loves and the one who saves the day.

    The problem is, Shelton just has no screen presence, nothing to make you remember him because he is oh so good or oh so bad. In the looks department he is dead average. Because he is at the center of the plot, I think he sinks the film by at least a star. You give the same role to every man James Stewart, and this film would have worked, but by 1940 Stewart was too big of a star to be in a B film like this. With Donald Meek in an uncharacteristically sinister role that is truly a delight.
    8loloandpete

    Breezy, jaunty comedy

    Austrian director Wilhelm Thiele is not a notable name in the pantheon of great directors, most of his work was in German language films and he would probably be best known for a brace of Tarzan films in his Hollywood career, not comedy. But he does a very good job of marshalling a first rate cast here in a fun, quickie film version of an adapted stage play. Frank Morgan is the nice, but befuddled and bewildered pater familias at the heart of the story. So valuable was he to MGM, that he was given a lifetime contract! Just the year before, of course, he had memorably played the title role of The Wizard of Oz and interestingly Billie Burke had played Glinda, the good witch, in the same movie, they are reunited in this offering and work well together. Morgan brings his trademark milquetoast character back to good effect here but also is hugely enjoyable when a twist makes him a tongue in cheek, stern authoritarian. His daughter, played by Ann Rutherford is paired with John Shelton to provide the romantic interest and rather than being dull or insipid they spar wonderfully and strike comedic sparks off each other. Rutherford, in particular, is a marvellously spunky ingenue. But this is a cast that bats all the way down and character actors have a field day here; Reginald Owen is great fun as a musician who assumes a disguise, Donald Meek, a delight as a slimy and unscrupulous banker and Nat Pendleton as a lazy lunk and Renie Riano as a tomboyish suitor to him, provide an enjoyably off centre 'romance'. Even Richard Carle in a brief, one scene cameo, makes his Mark as "Old Fishface". Highly recommended to lovers of silver screen comedy.
    8planktonrules

    Next time you disappear, make sure you really ARE dead!

    I think one of the more overlooked actors of his day was Frank Morgan. While he's known today for playing the Wizard in "The Wizard of Oz", he also starred in quite a few charming films for MGM...films that provided him a chance to play a likable fellow. My favorite is "A Stranger in Town"...but this one is awfully good as well.

    Vern Adams is a bit of a henpecked milquetoast...and a bit of a nobody. He's a nice enough guy but no one, including his family, takes him very seriously. Out of the blue, he receives a phone call from Australia! It's an old childhood friend who announces he wants to leave $500,000 to his hometown AND he wants Vern to come to Australia, all expenses paid, to see him and discuss what how the money will be used. Suddenly, folks LOVE Vern and he's a hero in his town.

    Unfortunately, through a series of bad choices, Vern misses his ship and ends up in jail. No one in town knows this...and when he get out of jail he learns this old friend has died AND left nothing in the will about the legacy. He's worried his friends and neighbors will now hate him...but this turns out not to be the case. Why? Because the ship sank and he's been declared dead...and the family has collected on his insurance policy!! So, his family is in trouble for insurance fraud (after all, they've spent all the money) and Vern has no idea what to do next. How does he extricate himself from this mess? See the film.

    As was often the case with Morgan's films, excellent writing and his sweet acting carry the film. Overall, clever, original and well worth seeing.

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    • Trivia
      A great amount of footage of Pookey the Parrot had to be removed because he imitated the "Cut!" command of director Wilhelm Thiele and often screamed it in the middle of a scene.
    • Errores
      The entire premise is wrong. He would have to be missing for 7 years to be proclaimed dead. No insurance company would pay without an investigation and after the death certificate is issued.
    • Conexiones
      Remake of Hurra! Ich lebe! (1928)
    • Bandas sonoras
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      Played by a band seeing Vern off

      Reprised by a band welcoming Vern home

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 1 de agosto de 1940 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Hooray, I'm Alive
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
    • Productora
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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      1 hora 19 minutos
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.37 : 1

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