Review of The Live Ghost

Only moderately funny, this strange short has the boys responsible for dozen or so men being shanghai'd onto Walter Long's ship and being concerned over rumored ghosts aboard. A particular single line indicates exactly how this will end, and it really isn't all that funny visually. Series perennial Mae Busch is really wasted in this one, as a wife vowing revenge on her sailor husband who abandoned her. The setting is pretty dreary and the theme dark and never really all that interesting. As for the ghost in the title, it never is explained why the ship is rumored to be haunted, so any element of suspense is evaporated with the realization that nothing supernatural is going on.