Screening from Series Present Past: A Celebration of Film Preservation

Lucky Ghost

Restoration World Premiere

Sat, Dec 21, 2024

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Restoration World Premiere

Washington (Mantan Moreland) and Jefferson (F.E. Miller) are down-on-their-luck gambling buddies who strike it big when they win their very own country club. Little do they know the club is haunted by its previous owners. The film features an all-Black cast and was directed by the prolific William Beaudine, under the pseudonym William X. Crowley. Lucky Ghost has been newly restored in 4K from a 16mm print thought to be the only known remaining element in existence.

Note by Tessa Idlewine, short film preservationist, Academy Film Archive.

DIRECTED BY: William Beaudine. WRITTEN BY: Lex Neal,Vernon Smith. WITH: Mantan Moreland, F.E. Miller, Maceo B. Sheffield, Arthur Ray. 1942. 61 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP. Restored in 2024 by the Academy Film Archive, with funding in part from the Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 

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