The Ghost That Never Returns
About The Ghost That Never Returns
José Real, imprisoned for trying to unionize a South American oilfield, is given one day with his family after ten years, and an agent is sent to kill him. He sleeps past his stop, jumps from the train, and reaches an empty house where his father and son tell him of a new strike. Ordered back to prison at the Hillside Inn, he refuses. A gunfight starts, and jailed workers hear that Real is leading the strike. Abram Room directed the part-sound film from Henri Barbusse.
Cast & crew
More about The Ghost That Never Returns
Dmitry Feldman photographed it and Alexander Shenshin composed the score. Wikidata lists 67 minutes and the dates March 15, 1930, and 1933. Boris Ferdinandov plays José Real, Maxim Strauch plays the police agent, and a print is at the Library of Congress.
Themes
Background
Barbusse's novel supplies a South American oil strike, filmed in the Soviet Union as a part-sound drama.
Look
Dmitry Feldman photographed Room's Sovkino production.
Technique
The English Wikipedia calls it a part-sound film.
Music
Alexander Shenshin is the composer on Wikidata.
Preservation
A print is preserved at the Library of Congress.
Notes
- Olga Zhizneva, Dmitry Kara-Dmitriyev, and Karl Gurnyak are on the Wikidata cast.
- The English cast list gives Ivan Lavrov as José's father.
- Real was serving a life sentence. The day out is described as an honor from which he will not return.
- The Commons file uses the transliterated title Prividenie Kotoroe Ne Vozvrashchaetsya.
Scenes
- Real sleeps through his station and has to jump from the train.
- He tells the police he will not go back, and the shooting starts.
Influenced by
- Henri Barbusse's novel
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Prividenie Kotoroe Ne Vozvrashchaetsya - The Ghost That Never Returns (1930) by Abram Room.webm)
