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You Can Bet Your Bottom Dollar It's THRILLING - EXCITING - FUNNY!
An all-black horror comedy starring Mantan Moreland and sometimes partner (and straight man) F.E. Miller, Lucky Ghost is amusing low-brow fare that exploits the more base, stereotypical elements of old-time black life (chicken thievin', gamblin', runnin' from ghosteses) for laughs -- sort of like the BET of its day. Mantan and Miller win a house-cum-casino in a craps game, only to discover that the deceased former owners aren't too pleased that their old home is being used for "jitterbugging, jiving, and hullaballooing". I hate hullaballooing. The ghosts decide to scare everyone off by opening doors and windows, pulling out chairs, even playing the drums.
Mantan Moreland F.E. Miller Maceo Bruce Sheffield Arthur Ray Florence O'Brien Harold Garrison Jessie Cryer Napoleon Whiting Jess Lee Brooks Ida Coffin Nathan Curry Millie Monroe Louise Franklin Lucille Battle Avanelle Harris Monte Hawley Vernon McCalla Harry Levette Henry Hastings Florence Field John Lester Johnson Edward Thompson Lester Christmas Reginald Fenderson Lorenzo Flennoy
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