The Ghost Talks is the one-hundred-thirteenth Columbia Pictures short subject starring the Three Stooges.
Plot[]
The boys get drunk by milk after have a toast with the Peeping Tom's spirit
The Stooges are moving men assigned to move furniture out of the haunted Smorgasbord Castle. All goes well at first, outside of a few scares, until a clanking suit of armor inhabited by the ghost of Peeping Tom (voiced by Phil Arnold) scares the hapless Stooges. Tom manages to convince them that he is, in fact, a friendly spirit. After finally gaining their trust, Tom tells the trio his origin story of watching Lady Godiva (Nancy Saunders), only to get a pie in the face. In turn, his ghost is cursed and trapped inside the suit of armor. He has been trapped for a thousand years. The Stooges, however, still have a job to do, and tell Tom that they have to move everything in the castle, including him. He instructs the boys to leave him be, as "bad luck" will be upon them if they ever try to take him away. Shemp, Larry and Moe all take turns trying to move Tom, but a series of various shenanigans spooks the Stooges. The Incidents they encounter include a frog jumping down Shemp's shirt, and an owl entering a skull and assuming the role of a death's head spirit. As they run into another room to escape, Lady Godiva rides up on a horse and takes Tom away. The Stooges rush over to the window to watch them depart, only to be pelted with three successive pies amidst a cheering crowd.
Cast[]
- Moe Howard
- Larry Fine
- Shemp Howard
- Phil Arnold, as the Ghost of Peeping Tom (Otherwise, the clanking armor)
- Nancy Saunders, as Lady Godiva
Notes[]
- The Ghost Talks was reworked in 1956 as Creeps, using ample stock footage.
- This is one of the few films where Shemp bests both Moe and Larry. Shemp swings a broom at a "flying skull", hitting Moe and then Larry, who think it was the "spirit" hitting them. When they see Shemp holding the broom, he thinks quickly and says, "Lucky for you I took this away from him, or he'd have killed you both!" Their reaction is to pat him on the back and say "Thanks, pal!"
- The Ghost Talks was filmed on August 26–29, 1947, and released 18 months later on February 3, 1949. It was edited in late 1948 with Pardon My Clutch theme song, the origianl ending from 1947 was also using in short.