The Ghosts of Berkeley Square is a 1947 British comedy film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer.
The film is an adaptation of the 1944 novel No Nightingales by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, inspired by the enduring reputation of the property at 50 Berkeley Square as "the most haunted house in London".
[2] Despite its stellar cast of highly respected character actors and its inventive use of special effects, the film proved less successful at the box-office than had been hoped.
Believing the battle will end in slaughter they hatch a plan to capture Marlborough and hold him prisoner until the threat of hostilities passes.
Later, the pair are also subjected to a court-martial who find them guilty for crimes against the Crown, sentencing Burlap and Kelsoe to haunt their Berkeley Square residence until it is visited by a member or reigning royalty.
Realising that by scaring Lady Mary away the house will now be labelled as haunted and therefore never sell and be visited by royalty, Burlap and Kelsoe blame each other for the fiasco, quarrel, and refuse to speak to each other.
Farnum reopens Berkeley Square as a Haunted house, however Burlap and Kelsoe take offence to the fake tours and agree to perform as part of a ghostly show instead.
Several years later the house is purchased by the Nawab of Bagwash, an Indian rajah and descendant of Burlap, who does not count as reigning royalty as Queen Victoria has recently become Empress of India.
During World War I Berkeley Square becomes an officers' club where Burlap and Kelsoe are accused of faking their military rank and labelled as German spies.