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1940s Ghost Movies

Public list by WPS with 24 movies or TV shows/series

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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad(1949)

NR
| 1h 8min | Horror, Fantasy, Animation, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 235 votes)

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.

Directed by Jack Kinney, Clyde Geronimi, James Algar
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Hamlet(1948)

NR
| 2h 35min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 99 votes)

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

Directed by Laurence Olivier - With Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Jean Simmons, Stanley Holloway, Laurence Olivier, Peter Cushing, ...
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Blithe Spirit(1945)

NR
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.

Directed by David Lean - With Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Carey, Noël Coward, ...
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Dead of Night(1945)

NR
| 1h 43min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 108 votes)

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer - With Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Frederick Valk, Roland Culver, Sally Ann Howes, Googie Withers, ...

The Uninvited(1944)

NR
| 1h 39min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 87 votes)

A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.

Directed by Lewis Allen - With Ray Milland, Gail Russell, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Alan Napier, ...

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir(1947)

NR
| 1h 44min | Fantasy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.8/5 (with 135 votes)

A young British widow rents a seaside cottage and soon becomes haunted by the ghost of its former owner.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - With Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best, Natalie Wood, Isobel Elsom, ...
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The Curse of the Cat People(1944)

1h 10min | Horror, Drama, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 55 votes)

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

Directed by Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch - With Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter, Julia Dean, Elizabeth Russell, ...
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Topper Returns(1941)

1h 28min | Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.

Directed by Roy Del Ruth - With Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Carole Landis, Billie Burke, Dennis O'Keefe, Patsy Kelly, ...
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The Queen of Spades(1949)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
3.3/5 (with 21 votes)

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.

Directed by Thorold Dickinson - With Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell

The Canterville Ghost(1944)

NR
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.

Directed by Jules Dassin, Norman Z. McLeod - With Charles Laughton, Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien, William Gargan, Reginald Owen, Una O'Connor, ...

Who Killed Who?(1943)

8min | Animation, Comedy, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

A murder has occurred at Gruesome Gables, and the dog detective trying to find the killer has to deal with some suspicious suspects and a haunted house.

Directed by Tex Avery

The Ghost Train(1941)

1h 25min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.

Directed by Walter Forde - With Arthur Askey
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Crazy with the Heat(1947)

NR
| 6min | Animation
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Donald and Goofy are driving across the desert, apparently the Sahara. The car breaks down (out of gas), and they start walking. Before long, they are out of water, and are seeing mirages of soda fountains and icebergs. Fortunately, they find a camel.

Directed by Bob Carlson

The Unseen(1945)

NR
| 1h 20min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.0/5 (with 7 votes)

David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.

Directed by Lewis Allen - With Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks, Isobel Elsom, Norman Lloyd, ...

La torre de los siete jorobados(1944)

1h 25min | Comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

In Madrid, Spain, at the end of the 19th century, the young and reckless Basilio seems to be the only person who perceives the spectral presence of Professor Robinsón de Mantua, who begs him to take care of his niece Inés, because she is in grave danger.

Directed by Édgar Neville - With Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín, Julia Lajos, Antonio García-Riquelme Salvador, José Franco, ...

Things Happen at Night(1947)

1h 19min | Comedy, Horror
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.

Directed by Francis Searle

Mahal(1949)

2h 45min | Romance / Love, Horror, Drama
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A young lawyer is involved with a ghostly woman in his new house, where the builder and his fiancée died shortly after it was built.

Directed by Kamal Amrohi - With Ashok Kumar, Madhubala

Gildersleeve's Ghost(1944)

NR
| 1h 3min | Fantasy, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.

Directed by Gordon Douglas - With Harold Peary

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square(1947)

1h 40min | Comedy, Fantasy
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.

Directed by Vernon Sewell - With Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer, Abraham Sofaer, Ernest Thesiger, John Longden, Martita Hunt, ...

The Smiling Ghost(1941)

1h 11min | Comedy, Mystery, Horror
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.

Directed by Lewis Seiler - With Wayne Morris, Alexis Smith, Alan Hale, Brenda Marshall, Lee Patrick, Helen Westley, ...

Ghost Catchers(1944)

NR
| 1h 8min | Comedy, Horror, Music, Mystery, Crime
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.

Directed by Edward F. Cline - With Ole Olsen

There's One Born Every Minute(1942)

NR
| 1h | Comedy
4.1/5 (with 1 vote)

A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.

Directed by Harold Young - With Hugh Herbert, Tom Brown, Guy Kibbee, Edgar Kennedy, Gus Schilling, Elizabeth Taylor, ...

The Haunted Mouse(1941)

6min | Animation, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A starving cat wandering in the wilderness sees a sign that says "Ma's Place / Home Cooking / 3 Miles". The cat speeds into town, without noticing the sign that says "Ghost Town / Population 100 Ghosts". One of these ghosts is a mouse eager to get revenge on cats for having tormented him in life.

Directed by Tex Avery

The Ghost Talks(1949)

17min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

The stooges are movers for an express company and on a rainy night are sent to move some junk, including a suit of armor, from a spooky old house. The armor is haunted by the ghost of Peeping Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, until Lady Godiva shows up and the two ride off together.

Directed by Jules White - With Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Phil Arnold, Nancy Saunders
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