Three Live Ghosts is a 1936 American comedy film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone and starring Richard Arlen, Claud Allister and Cecilia Parker.
The film was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a remake of the 1929 film of the same title, itself based on a 1920 play by Frederic S. Isham inspired by his own 1918 novel.
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Plot
Three soldiers of the British Army, including an American, are reported killed in action during the First World War. In fact they are being held as prisoners of war by the Germans. After the war they return to London, where they find they are considered officially dead. The stepmother of one has spent all the money she has received in compensation, another is an eccentric aristocratic-type who has lost his memory while the third is an American who has a private detective searching him out.
Cast
Richard Arlen as William 'Bill' Jones
Beryl Mercer as Mrs. Gibbins
Claud Allister as Lord 'Spoofy' Brockton
Charles McNaughton as James 'Jimmie' Gubbins
Cecilia Parker as Ann Gordon
Dudley Digges as Inspector Briggs
Nydia Westman as Peggy 'Peg' Woofers
Jonathan Hale as Detective Bolton
Lillian Kemble-Cooper as Lady Brockton
Robert Greig as John Ferguson
Wallis Clark as Detective Harris
Anita Deniston as Tommy Brockton
Joseph North as Parker
Forrester Harvey as Paymaster
Clare Verdera as Brockton's Maid
Sidney Bracey as Book Merchant
Frederik Vogeding as Officer of the Day
Egon Brecher as German Officer
Roland Varno as German Corporal