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Movie Description: The Ghoul is a 1933 British Horror film starring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger and Ralph Richardson, whose debut film this was. The plot centres around a Professor (Karloff) who is to be buried with an Egyptian jewel in order to attain eternal life. When the jewel is stolen by his servant, the professor rises from the dead to reclaim it. The film, based on the play and novel by Dr. Frank King and Leonard J. Hines, was once considered to be a lost film since the original nitrate negative had succumbed to decomposition and no prints of the film were known to exist. However, an incomplete and partly decomposed Czech release print was discovered which was the only available print for several decades. Then, finally, an excellent quality print was discovered in the archives of the British Film Institute. *****NOTE ABOUT COPYRIGHT STATUS OF THIS WORK***** This version is the Czech print. This item was public domain in the US due to the ommission of a copyright notice and failure to fulfill other copyright formalities. The item remains in the US public domain due to it's public domain status under UK law at the relevant date of GATT/URAA (1 January 1996) rendering it ineligible for restoration of copyright. Transitional terms of UK Copyright legislation stipulate that the copyright in "published films and films falling within section 13(3)(a) of the 1956 Act (films registered under former enactments relating to registration of films)....subsist(s) until the date on which it would have expired under the 1956 Act". The copyright term under the 1956 Act was 50 years from the end of the year of release or registration. This film was released in the UK in 1933. Under the 1956 act the film entered the UK public domain on 1 January 1984 and was not restored by either the implemention of the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act or the 1995 extension/variations to the copyright terms of that act. PLEASE NOTE: The film is public domain. The above descriptive text is not. Please ask permission before reusing this text in any way.