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Strictly for Ava Gardner fans
Both of these forgettable movies are funny--one intendendly, the other unintendedly. "Whistle Stop" is a plodding and dreary potboiler about a shady lady returning from the big city to her hicksville hometown to find her former flame an alcoholic and womanizing loafer. As she attempts to straighten him out the local hotel/saloon owner falls for her while her ex gets into some trouble of his own. The appallingly wooden George Raft gives an unintendedly hilarious performance as Kenny, the disillusioned neer-do-well who is suspicious and angered by ex-girlfriend Mary's ambiguous past. Good thing for a pre-stardom Ava Gardner as Mary, and although she is noticeably awkward and stiff, she makes worth watching this lackluster and asinine vehicle and gives it the jolt it so desperately needs. "Ghosts" is a supposed horror/comedy that the best one can say is it's so bad its good! There are no haunts in this film, as the title says--I suppose the "ghosts" may refer to the villians and their leader as played by Bela Lugosi in a throwaway part. Poverty-row production starring the Dead End Kids as the local toughs who inadvertently discover that an abandoned house harbors Nazi saboteurs in their midsts(!) who are conspiring to take over the world as well as for some obscure reason abduct Betty, played nicely and breezily by a pre-stardom Ava Gardner. Therefore, it is up to the bumbling Dead End Kids to save the damsel and the day. Both films are stinkers which I would recommend only to the most die-hard Gardner fans.