# Haunted Spooks (1920) Directed by Hal Roach, Alfred J. Goulding

Haunted Spooks Promotional advertisement Directed by Alfred J. Goulding Hal Roach Written by H. M. Walker Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Mildred Davis Wallace Howe Ernest Morrison Blue Washington Release date March 14, 1920 Running time 25 minutes Country United States Language Silent (English intertitles ) Haunted Spooks is a 1920 American silent Southern Gothic comedy horror film , produced and co-directed by Hal Roach , \[ 1 \] starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis . The short film has a comedic version of a typical haunted house tale, and a dispute over a family's inheritance. A young woman is the heiress to a mansion and a plantation , but only if she is married. She quickly enters an arranged marriage with a stranger, and they travel to the mansion. Her uncle fakes ghostly apparitions, in order to scare them away and lay claim to the inheritance. At the end of the film, the husband and wife remember to enquire about their respective names. Plot The action in Haunted Spooks centres around Harold's romantic problems. It is set in the South ("\[go\] down the Mississippi and turn to the right"). The opening sequence has an uncle reading a telegram regarding a will. It tells him that his niece Mildred will inherit the house and plantation, provided she lives there for a year with her husband. He tells his wife that they must scare them out of the house. A lawyer visits the niece to tell her of the will. She tells him she is not married and he says he can resolve…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1920
- By: Hal Roach, Alfred J. Goulding
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/haunted-spooks-1920)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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