Ghosts

Ghosts

58 mins | Drama | May 31, 1915

Captain Alving, a notorious rake and financially irresponsible, seeks wealthy heiress Helen's hand in marriage. The family doctor protests to the marriage, on the grounds of Alving's hereditary illness, but both parties disregard all warnings; Urged on by her ambitious parents, Helen marries Alving. Later Helen discovers a liaison between her husband and a young, married woman. Soon the sins of the father are visited upon all members of the Alving clan. Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.

Ghosts

58 mins | Drama | May 31, 1915

Ghosts
Captain Alving, a notorious rake and financially irresponsible, seeks wealthy heiress Helen's hand in marriage. The family doctor protests to the marriage, on the grounds of Alving's hereditary illness, but both parties disregard all warnings; Urged on by her ambitious parents, Helen marries Alving. Later Helen discovers a liaison between her husband and a young, married woman. Soon the sins of the father are visited upon all members of the Alving clan. Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.
IMDb rating 5.4
Producers Mutual Film Corporation, Majestic Motion Picture Company
Original title Ghosts
Directors John Emerson, George Nichols, George Siegmann
Writers Russell E. Smith, Henrik Ibsen

Cast

Henry B. Walthall

as Captain Alving / Oswald

Mary Alden

as Helen Alving

Nigel De Brulier

as Pastor Manders

Juanita Archer

as Johanna

Loretta Blake

as Regina

Al W. Filson

as The Family Doctor

Thomas Jefferson

as Johanna's Unseeing Husband

Monte Blue

as Bohemian

Karl Formes

as Henrik Ibsen

Chandler House

as Oswald as a boy

Erich von Stroheim

as School Clerk