This 35mm screening is part of the Alexander Korda season at BFI Southbank. Full details here. This movie is also being shown on January 13th. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
French director Rene Clair made his English-language debut with this 1936 Alexander Korda production, about an American millionaire (Eugene Pallette) who ships an old Scottish castle to his estate in Florida for reassembly and finds that he's acquired the family ghost (Robert Donat) along with the family home. Clair never regained his footing after leaving France (he didn't return until the end of World War II), but, though hardly up to Le million or A nous la liberte, this is one of his more successful expatriate efforts, graced by a wit that would eventually become toothless whimsy.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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