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1950s Ghost Movies

Public list by WPS with 21 movies or TV shows/series

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Scrooge(1951)

PG
| 1h 26min | Fantasy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 133 votes)

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

House on Haunted Hill(1959)

NR
| 1h 15min | Horror, Crime, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 203 votes)

Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!

The Screaming Skull(1958)

NR
| 1h 8min | Thriller, Horror
1.9/5 (with 22 votes)

Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange things including a mysterious skull, which may or may not be a product of her imagination.

Scared Stiff(1953)

NR
| 1h 48min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...

The Ghost of Yotsuya(1959)

1h 16min | Horror
3.4/5 (with 19 votes)

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa - With Shigeru Amachi

Black Cat Mansion(1958)

1h 9min | Drama, Horror
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.

Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

The Ghost of Kasane(1957)

1h 6min | Horror
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...

Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa - With Tetsurō Tamba

Ghost Ship(1952)

NR
| 1h 14min | Horror, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.

The Living Coffin(1959)

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

A cowboy and his sidekick meet a ranching family that is haunted by spirits and vampires.

The Headless Ghost(1959)

1h 2min | Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
1.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.

Directed by Peter Graham Scott

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow(1959)

NR
| 1h 5min | Comedy, Horror
2.1/5 (with 8 votes)

A group of drag-racing fanatics, members of a Los Angeles club, move into an old deserted mansion and set up shop, making it their headquarters. They hold a Halloween masked ball for the club's grand opening, and invite everyone to come dressed as their favorite monster! Oddly enough, the festivities turn sour when one of the bright youths discovers an impostor among them in the form of an honest-to-gosh live monster who's been hogging all the dances with the best-looking girls.

Directed by William J. Hole, Jr.

The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall(1958)

1h 28min | Horror
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt the castle.

Directed by Kenji Misumi - With Shintarō Katsu
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Ghost Chasers(1951)

1h 9min | Comedy, Action
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.

Creeps(1956)

16min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 2 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 Sir Tom, who has no intention of leaving. The ghost foils the stooges attempts to take the armor, and is about to skewer them with a sword when it's revealed that the stooges were only telling a bedtime story to their "sons" (also played by the stooges.)

The Sparrows of Paris(1953)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An American manager and his daughter want to hire "the little singers with the wooden cross" for a tour of the United States,but Jeannot,a young member of the choir recognize his grandma's locket round the girl's neck .

Directed by Maurice Cloche - With Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis de Funès, André Dalibert, Claude Fournier, Léonce Corne, The Little Singers of Paris, ...

The Bespoke Overcoat(1955)

37min | Drama, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.

The Mother Tree(1958)

48min | Horror
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He later murders the painter and his servants. From the afterlife, the painter's ghost seeks revenge on the samurai, and saves his wife and newborn child.

Directed by Gorō Kadono

Spook Chasers(1957)

1h 2min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.

Directed by George Blair - With Huntz Hall

Ghost of Saga Mansion(1953)

1h 37min | Horror
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is Takako Irie's first bakeneko (ghost cat) movie; it started a Daiei cycle which was very popular at the time in Japan.

Directed by Ryohei Arai - With Kunitarō Sawamura, Takako Irie

Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi(1956)

1h 27min | Horror
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fiancé seeks revenge, he finds Namiji's cat helping him. Co-starring Shintarô Katsu and Takako Irie.

Directed by Bin Katō

Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo(1957)

55min | Fantasy, Horror
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.

Directed by Gorō Kadono
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