Commentaire par planktonrules

It's a shame that when "Legend of a Ghost" came out that the film industry wasn't yet using intertitle cards to explain what was happening in the movie. Many times, early filmmakers worked past this by having super-simple plots or exaggerated acting. However, in the case of this movie, it's disastrous not having them because you'll have no idea what's happening throughout the film! It is an indescribable film and I am not sure I could do it justice by trying.

Director Segundo de Chomón had what seems like a huge budget for the time in this film. He uses many fanciful sets, has tons of actors in a variety of costumes and even created weird floats for the characters to use*. It all screamed 'big budget', that's for sure. And that is the reason why I STILL recommend you see the film as it was very much ahead of its time--just not when it came to the intertitle cards.

*If you look carefully, sometimes you'll get a quick glimpse of the automobile tires under the floats as well as the drivers using a steering wheel!