Invisible Ghost is a horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 starring Bela Lugosi

Béla Lugosi

Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...

, shot in black and white, and directed by Joseph H. Lewis.

Plot

Lugosi plays Kessler, a man controlled by homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife, who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener. When an innocent man is executed for a murder done by Kessler in the house, his twin brother visits and tries to unravel the mystery. In the end it ends up that Kessler really is the killer and he doesn't know it.

Kessler looks at the painting of his wife (that is stabbed on the throat) and then walks out to be arrested.

Cast

• Bela Lugosi
  Béla Lugosi
  Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...
  
   - Charles Kessler
• Polly Ann Young
  Polly Ann Young
  Polly Ann Young was an American film actress.Actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane were her sisters, and, of the three, Polly Ann was the least successful. Between 1917 and 1941 she featured in 34 movies, some of them minor uncredited roles. Among her most notable movie roles, was as John...
  
   - Virginia Kessler
• John McGuire - Ralph Dickson and Paul Dickson
• Clarence Muse
  Clarence Muse
  Clarence Muse was an actor, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. He was inducted in the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1973. Muse was the first African American to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years, and appeared in more than 150 movies.-Life and career:Born in...
  
   - Evans the Butler
• Terry Walker - Cecile Mannix
• Betty Compson
  Betty Compson
  Betty Compson was an American actress. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive film career. Her father died when she was young, and she was forced to drop out of school and earn a living for herself and her mother...
  
   - Mrs. Kessler
• Ernie Adams
  Ernie Adams (actor)
  Ernie Adams was an American film actor. He appeared in over 400 films between 1919 and 1948.He was born in San Francisco, California and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...
  
   - Jules Mason
• George Pembroke - Police Lieutenant Williams
• Ottola Nesmith
  Ottola Nesmith
  Ottola Nesmith was an American actress. She appeared in over 115 films and television shows between 1913 and 1969.-Selected filmography:* Three Men on a Horse * Television Spy...
  
   - Mrs. Mason (as Ollola Nesmith)
• Fred Kelsey
  Fred Kelsey
  Frederick Alvin "Fred" Kelsey was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in 404 films between 1911 and 1958, often playing policemen or detectives . He also directed 37 films between 1914 and 1920...
  
   - Detective Ryan
• Jack Mulhall
  Jack Mulhall
  Jack Mulhall, born John Joseph Francis Mulhall, was a film actor since the silent film era and appeared in over 430 films....
  
   - Detective Tim
• Fred Aldrich - Guard at Ralph's Exeuction (uncredited)
• Lloyd Ingraham - The Psychiatrist (uncredited)
• Robert Strange - Coroner Kirby (uncredited)