The Spirit Is Willing

The Spirit Is Willing is a 1967 film about couple and their teenage son who rent a haunted New England seaside house, and their summer vacation turns into a ghost-hunt.

Directed by William Castle. Written by Ben Starr.

Kiss-Hungry Girl Ghosts Looking for a Live Lover in a Haunted House of Mayhem.  (taglines)

Ben Powell

• What's the matter, you still mad 'cause I wouldn't let you split my skull with your ax?

Dialogue

Ben Powell: Look, you can't afford a new car.

Steve Powell: But dad, neither can you but you drive one.

Ben Powell: I'm too poor to drive an old car.

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Fess Dorple: You mean to tell me that the anchor you just saw down there a, a minute ago, i-it's not there any more?

Steve Powell: That's right.

Fess Dorple: Look kid, I got a surprise for you: all the anchors I know don't know how to swim.

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Uncle George: Keep Steve handy, I have a little present for him.

Kate Powell: I hope it's money.

Uncle George: You wouldn't have said that if you were sober.

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Dr. Frieden: Well, happy birthday.

Steve Powell: Thank you.

Dr. Frieden: I'm sorry I didn't bring you a present.

Steve Powell: [scoffs] Oh, that's okay, who wants presents on their birthday, anyway?

Taglines

• Kiss-Hungry Girl Ghosts Looking for a Live Lover in a Haunted House of Mayhem.

• The first picture to face the biggest problem of our time: the sex life of ghosts!

Cast

• Sid Caesar — Ben Powell
• Vera Miles — Kate Powell
• Barry Gordon — Steve Powell
• John McGiver — Uncle George
• Cass Daley — Felicity Twitchell
• Ricky Cordell — Miles Thorpe
• Mary Wickes — Gloria Tritt
• Jesse White — Fess Dorple
• Robert Donner — Ebenezer Twitchell
• Mickey Deems — Rabbit Warren
• Nestor Paiva — Felicity's Father (final film role)
• Doodles Weaver — Booper Mellish
• Jay C. Flippen — Mother
• Jill Townsend — Jenny Pruitt / Priscilla Weems / Carol Weems
• John Astin — Dr. Frieden

External links

• The Spirit Is Willing quotes at the Internet Movie Database