Shivering Spooks

{{short description|1926 short film by Robert F. McGowan}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Shivering Spooks

| image = OG ShiveringSpooks 26.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Robert F. McGowan

| writer = Hal Roach
H. M. Walker

| producer = Hal Roach
F. Richard Jones

| starring = Joe Cobb
Jackie Condon
Johnny Downs
Allen Hoskins
Mary Kornman
Scooter Lowry
Jay R. Smith
Bobby Young
Buster the Dog
George B. French
Clara Guiol
Tiny Sandford

| cinematography =

| editing = Richard C. Currier

| distributor = Pathé Exchange

| released = {{Film date|1926|8|8}}

| runtime = 18:07

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

Shivering Spooks is a 1926 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/ShiveringSpooks1926.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Shivering Spooks |accessdate=September 14, 2008|work=silentera.com}}{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226170/Shivering-Spooks/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520155415/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/226170/Shivering-Spooks/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |title=New York Times: Shivering Spooks |accessdate=September 14, 2008| first=Mordaunt |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author-link=Mordaunt Hall |date=2011 | last=Hall}} It was the 52nd Our Gang short subject to be released.{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |pages=66–67 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/66/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}} One of the child actors, Johnny Downs, went on to become a successful character actor and starred with George Zucco in The Mad Monster (1942).Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 305. {{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}.

Plot

A phony spiritualist named Professor Fleece dupes gullible people into believing he can contact the dead through seances. When the Our Gang kids disrupt one of his seances, the Professor orders his henchmen to scare the heck out of the kids so that they will leave the area.

Cast

=The Gang=

=Additional cast=

See also

References

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