The Ghost Talks (1929 film)

The Ghost Talks
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Directed byLewis Seiler
Written byFrederick Hazlitt Brennan
Harlan Thompson (dialog)
Based onBadges
by Edward Hammond and Max Marcin
StarringHelen Twelvetrees
Carmel Myers
CinematographyGeorge Meehan
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • February 24, 1929 (1929-02-24)
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Ghost Talks is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler based on a Max Marcin and Edward Hammond's Broadway play. Actor Stepin Fetchit played a character named "Christopher Lee" in this early talkie. Because not all theaters had been converted to sound, it was also released as a silent film. Despite the title, there are no ghosts in the film.

According to the New York Times review, this was the second all-talking feature from Fox Films, featuring various plot devices, like a lisping heroine, to show off its Movietone sound system. This film is regarded as lost.