The Headless Ghost

The Headless Ghost
Directed byPeter Graham Scott
Written byAben Kandel {credited as Kenneth Langtry
Based onoriginal story by Langtry and Cohen
Produced byHerman Cohen
executive
James H. Nicholson
Samuel Z. Arkoff
StarringRichard Lyon
Liliane Sottane
David Rose
CinematographyJohn Wiles
Music byGerard Schurmann
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo Amalgamated Film Distributors
Release date
  • June 1959 (1959-06)
Running time
63 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Headless Ghost is a 1959 British comedy horror film, produced by Herman Cohen and directed by Peter Graham Scott. It stars Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose, and Clive Revill. The films tells of three young people who spend the night in a haunted English castle. With the help of a friendly ghost, they reunite the head of the Headless Ghost with its body, thus ending its 600 years of wandering about headless. The film was made specifically as the second feature for an American double bill with Horrors of the Black Museum (1959).