Haunted Gold

{{Infobox film

| name = Haunted Gold

| image = Haunted Gold FilmPoster.jpeg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Mack V. Wright

| producer = Leon Schlesinger

| writer = Adele Buffington

| starring = {{plain list|

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| music = John Peasano

| cinematography = Nicholas Musuraca

| editing = William Clemens

| studio = Leon Schlesinger Studios

| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures

| released = {{film date|1932|12|17}}

| runtime = 58 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Haunted Gold is a 1932 American pre-Code Western film directed by Mack V. Wright and starring John Wayne.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tcm.turner.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=968558%7C917&name=Haunted-Gold |title=Haunted Gold |access-date=March 24, 2018 |work=TCM}} It is a remake of the 1928 film The Phantom City, starring Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan. Filmed in 1932, two years before the implementation of Hollywood's Production Code, the film contains several racial slurs involving the black character "Clarence Brown" (played by Blue Washington).

Plot

John Mason and Janet Carter receive an anonymous letter telling them to travel to a ghost town that has an abandoned mine. There they befriend each other as they try to find out why they were sent the letters. They soon find themselves targets of Joe Ryan and his gang who are looking for the hidden gold inside the abandoned mine. They are helped by the mysterious Phantom of the mine who has his own plans.