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Lonesome Ghosts

Lonesome Ghosts

Animation · Comedy · Horror · 1937

On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

Movie details

Lonesome Ghosts

“Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy run a ghost exterminating agency.”

1937 Animation · Comedy · Horror 9m

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6.9 / 10

Community rating

On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

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What this film says about your taste.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Burt Gillett

Written by

Dick Friel

Walt Disney

Walt Disney

Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

Clarence Nash

Clarence Nash

Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Billy Bletcher

Short Ghost (voice) (uncredited)

Pinto Colvig

Pinto Colvig

Goofy (voice) (uncredited)

Don Brodie

Don Brodie

Ghost (voice) (uncredited)

J

Jack Bergman

Ghost (voice) (uncredited)

H

Harry Stanton

Ghost (voice) (uncredited)

Court is in session

Put Lonesome Ghosts on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.