The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Paul Lukas: Parada

Quotes 

• Parada : Are you the one advising Miss Carter to sell the castle?

  Larry Lawrence : No, my advice is keep the castle and sell the ghosts.

  Parada : I myself have heard of only one ghost: the spirit of Don Santiago.

  Larry Lawrence : Tell me, does he appear nightly or just Sundays and Holidays?

• Parada : I am simply doing my best to make clear to you that Miss Carter is taking her life in her hands if she goes into the castle tonight.

  Larry Lawrence : You know, that gives me an idea that scares me out of my wits.

  Parada : What?

  Larry Lawrence : I'll go there first.

  Parada : You are a brave man.

  Larry Lawrence : Me? No, my nerves are the break-away kind. I've got rabbit blood in me. Why, do you know what's liable to happen if I see a ghost there tonight?

  Parada : No.

  Larry Lawrence : I'd be so scared I'd probably take a shot at it... Won't I feel silly shooting ghosts?

• Mary Carter : Outside of the ghosts, are there any new reasons why I shouldn't sail tonight?

  Parada : Now, maybe this is a good reason. I just received this cablegram giving me the authority to offer you $50,000 for your castle.

  Mary Carter : $50,000! This doesn't make sense. Why should anyone offer so much for a castle full of secondhand spooks?

• Larry Lawrence : I'm a ghost breaker.

  Parada : A what?

  Larry Lawrence : Well, you've heard of trust breakers and home breakers? I'm a ghost breaker. I take family skeletons out of the closet and dust them off. I explain mysteries that people don't want explained. I make a nice living, too, chasing ghosts of the past, if you'll pardon the poetic reference.

• Parada : How long since anybody lived here?

  Larry Lawrence : Twenty years. But it's only been two months since anyone died here.

• Larry Lawrence : Do you see what I see?

  Parada : I'm tryin' to hope not.