The Ghosts of Buxley Hall is a television movie made by Disney that was aired in two parts on NBC as an episode of The Wonderful World of Disney between December 21, 1980, and December 28, 1980.
Plot[]
When the 100-year-old Buxley Military Academy falls on hard financial times and is forced to merge with a school for girls, the academy's resident ghosts – General Eulace C. Buxley, Bettina Buxley and Sergeant Major Chester B. Sweet – are aggrieved and aroused from their sleep to seek justice. Outraged by this disrespect of tradition, the spirits are further appalled by a modern world of equal rights for women and rock 'n' roll, as well as the dishonest designs a wealthy matron has for the school. The ghost trio declares war on the living who are involved in their own battle of the sexes.
Cast[]
- Dick O'Neill as General Eulace C. Buxley
- Victor French as Sergeant Major Chester B. Sweet
- Louise Latham as Bettina Buxley
- Rad Daly as Jeremy Ross
- Monte Markham as Colonel Joe Buxley
- Ruta Lee as Ernestine Di Gonzini
- Vito Scotti as Count Sergio Luchesi Di Gonzini
- Don Porter as Judge Oliver Haynes
- Steve Franken as Virgil Quinby
- Renne Jarrett as Emily Wakefield
- Christian Juttner as Cadet Captain Hubert Fletcher
- Tricia Cast as Posie Taylor
- Guy Raymond as Ben Grissom
- John Myhers as E.L. Hart
- Joe Tornatore as Vincent
- Stu Gilliam as Lt. Jim Rodney
- John Ericson as George Ross
- Tony Becker as Todd
- Karyn Harrison as Waitress
- Billy Jacoby as David Williams
Trivia[]
- On April 5, 1981, a little over four months after the December broadcast of The Ghosts of Buxley Hall, director Bruce Bilson married one of the film's co-stars, Renne Jarrett.
- Turner Classic Movies presented The Ghosts of Buxley Hall on October 28, 2015 as part of its "Treasures From the Disney Vault" combined with a "Salute to Halloween". Shown before "The Ghosts of Buxley Hall" were The Three Little Pigs (1933), The Big Bad Wolf (1934), Three Little Wolves (1936), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), The Old Mill (1937), "The Plausible Impossible" (1956), Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), Lonesome Ghosts (1937), Frankenweenie (1984) and Mr. Boogedy (1986). Following "The Ghosts of Buxley Hall", the Disney-Halloween salute concluded with Return from Witch Mountain (1978).