The Ghost Goes West
Since the heyday of Romanticism, gallant ghosts have haunted our imaginations. Sometimes troubling, sometimes amusing, they have crossed continents and eras, as well as film genres, as the films gathered here bear witness. Evanescent and elusive, these romantic ghosts are of course a source of fantasy, but they also inhabit cinema marvelously well, where they defy time, genre and mise-en-scène, between appearance and disappearance.
Donald Glourie, a ruined Scotsman, is forced to sell his castle to a wealthy American merchant. He has it transported, stone by stone, to the United States. He doesn't know it, but a ghost, Murdoch Glourie, Donald's ancestor, haunts the castle. The specter accompanies the castle to its destination and causes many problems for his descendant, whom he looks just like.
