

Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until he avenges a 200-year-old insult from a rival clan. To clear his mounting debts, Donald sells the dilapidated pile to an American businessman, Mr Martin, who has the castle complete with the Glourie ghost transported and rebuilt in Florida. While old-world gentility rubs up comically against 20th-century materialism, Martin's daughter takes a liking to both Donald and Murdoch, convinced they are one and the same man...
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Cast

Robert Donat
Murdoch Glourie / Donald Glourie

Jean Parker
Peggy Martin

Eugene Pallette
Mr. Joe Martin

Elsa Lanchester
Miss Shepperton

Ralph Bunker
Ed L. Bigelow

Patricia Hilliard
Shepherdess

Everley Gregg
Mrs. Gladys Martin

Morton Selten
The Glourie

Chili Bouchier
Cleopatra

Herbert Lomas
Fergus
Mark Daly
Murdoch's Groom
Elliott Mason
Mrs. MacNiff
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