what about Dragonwyck (1946), Gaslight (1944)? s --- "Miller, James Andrew (UMC-Student)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Screenlisters: > > I'm looking at a lot of ghost movies from the 1940s > (Ghost and Mrs Muir, Portrait of Jennie, A Guy Named > Joe) and began to notice that there seem to be quite > a few of what I might call "almost ghost" or "pseudo > ghost" films in the period. > > Examples: > The Ghost Breakers (1941): the ghost turns out to be > a scam... > Laura > The Lost Moment (1947): adaptation of James' "The > Aspern Papers"-- Miss Tina > isn't literally a ghost but has almost made herself > one by sheer force of will... > > Can you think of any more films of the 40s that are > like these? Either the viewer is temporarily led to > believe there is a ghost at work, or else one or > more characters behave in a ghostly manner while the > viewer is let in on the truth. > > Andy Miller > University of Missouri-Columbia > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]