Ghost Fever

From the silent era through the 1940s, black characters, playing on racial stereotypes, dotted screen comedies as buffoons. While GHOST FEVER upgrades its black protagonist's social status and pays some sort of homage to racial equality, the film is merely a reworking of the old stereotypes for modern audiences. The story deals with the ghost of Beauregard Lee (Pepper Martin), who haunts his old Southern plantation. Since the estate is in the way of a planned freeway, a local sheriff (also played by Martin) assigns two detectives to evict the current residents. The lawful duo (Sherman Hemsley and Luis Avalos) head out to the mansion, where their worst fears come tr...