Haunted Gold

Haunted Gold
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Directed by	Mack V. Wright
Written by	Adele Buffington
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Starring	John Wayne Sheila Terry
Cinematography	Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by	William Clemens
Music by	John Peasano
Production company	Leon Schlesinger Studios
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	December 17, 1932 (1932-12-17)
Running time	58 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Haunted Gold is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring John Wayne. It is a remake of the 1928 film The Phantom City, starring Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan. Filmed in 1932, two years before the implementation of Hollywood's Production Code, the film contains several racial slurs involving the black character "Clarence Brown" (played by Blue Washington).

Plot

John Mason and Janet Carter receive an anonymous letter telling them to travel to a ghost town that has an abandoned mine. There they befriend each other as they try to find out why they were sent the letters. They soon find themselves targets of Joe Ryan and his gang who are looking for the hidden gold inside the abandoned mine. They are helped by the mysterious Phantom of the mine who has his own plans.

Cast

• John Wayne as John Mason
• Sheila Terry as Janet Carter
• Harry Woods as Joe Ryan
• Erville Alderson as Tom Benedict
• Otto Hoffman as Simon - Benedict's Servant
• Martha Mattox as Mrs. Herman
• Blue Washington as Clarence Washington Brown
• John T. Prince as Bill Carter

See also

• John Wayne filmography

External links

• Haunted Gold at IMDb
• Haunted Gold at AllMovie
• Haunted Gold at the TCM Movie Database
• Haunted Gold at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films