The Return Of Peter Grimm

The Return Of Peter Grimm

The Liveliest person in the house was the Ghost of Peter Grimm

NR 1935 · 83 min · ★ 6.0 · Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.

Directed by George Nichols Jr. · Written by Francis Edward Faragoh

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