Munster, Go Home!

Ghosts Party is an American comedy film from 1966, based on the television series The Munsters. In contrast to the series of the movie was filmed in Technicolor. The leading roles are played, as in the television series, Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo and Al Lewis.

Action

The joy is great in the Mockingbird Lane 1313. Herman has inherited from his English uncle Castle Munster Hall and the corresponding title of Lord Munster.

So the family Munster breaks via ship to Europe. However, the English branch of the family is not as excited by this affair. Hermans Cousin Freddie should have been the next Lord Munster to be, but his faded father thought him absolutely incapable. Once at Munster Hall of murderous Freddie tried along with his sister and his scheming mother Lady Munster first time Herman and notes using some very suspicious methods, including a midnight Spukshow distribute, but this will not work so well.

After some further complications can solve the great secret of Munster Hall Herman and Grandpa Munster. Lady effigy Munster operates together with their wayward offspring of a counterfeiter companies in the vaults of the venerable castle. By the way, Herman may also settle a centuries-old feud between the race of the Munsters and the mayor's family during a spectacular car race.

Cousin Freddie, his mother and his sister were arrested and the peace between the two families is further underpinned by, fall in love with Marilyn and Roger, the mayor's son together.

Actor and German votes

  • Fred Gwynne: Benno Hoffmann
  • Yvonne De Carlo: Tilly Lauenstein
  • Al Lewis: Erich Fiedler
  • Butch Patrick: George Stern
  • Debbie Watson: Dagmar Biener
  • Terry -Thomas: Dietrich Frauboes
  • Hermione Gingold: Tina Eilers
  • Robert Pine: Roger
  • John Carradine: Knut Hartwig
  • Jeanne Arnold: Lola Luigi
  • Bernard Fox: Gerd Duwner
  • Cliff Norton: Klaus Miedel

Reviews

  • Bild.de: The movie was a year after the series, there are only two significant differences: it is in color and Marilyn Munster was filled. "Ghost Party" is a wonderfully oblique film that receives the humor of the TV series and feels like a great episode ...

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Others

  • During the opening scene in which the camera zufährt along the road to the home of the Munsters, can be seen from Hitchcock's Psycho as the house next door the famous Norman Bates house.
  • For the ghosts Party Marilyn Actress Pat Priest was replaced by the then seventeen -year-old Debbie Watson to a younger audience to address.
  • Originally ghosts Party was conceived as a TV movie, so the movie was not filmed in widescreen process.
  • In a supporting role, is made almost unrecognizable by thick make-up to see John Carradine as mad Butler Cruikshank. Carradine starred in the Universal classic Frankenstein's House ( 1944) and Dracula's House ( 1945) the role of Count Dracula.
  • The film came as a double feature with the movie The Ghost and Mr. Chicken in the cinemas, but was not a success.
1966 in film Screenplay Joe Connelly (producer) Bob Mosher Film score Jack Marshall Debbie Watson (actor) Terry-Thomas Alfred Hitchcock House of Frankenstein (1944 film) House of Dracula
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