# Favorite movies featuring ghosts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313 "2016-10-31T23:09:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313/4 "2016-10-31T23:39:32Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > A Facebook friend asked this and I thought it might be fun here. What is your favorite movie (not necessarily a horror film) that features ghosts? > > My choice is [The Time of Their Lives](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_of_Their_Lives). It’s an Abbott and Costello film, with Lou playing the ghost of a tinker from revolutionary times, who us cursed to haunt an estate forever unless it can be proven he’s not a traitor (it was untrue). He’s the star (he was feuding with Abbott at the time, so they have very few scenes together, and no comedy routines) and is very charming. It’s my favorite A&C film. > > How about yours? Bud Abbott claimed this was one of his favorites because he got to do a lot of physical comedy, something he didn’t get enough of in most of the A&C movies. I think of this film when I hear that Gordon Lightfoot song _If You Could Read my MInd_, because it’s the only story I know of “about a ghost from a wishing well” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies-featuring-ghosts/770313)._