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Driving through a brutal thunderstorm in Wales, three travelers take refuge in an eerie house owned by the Femm family. Reluctantly admitted by Horace Femm (Ernest Thesiger), the three sit down...
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- Boris Karloff
- James Whale
- Universal Pictures
The Old Dark House is much more explicit than horror films in the years to follow, dripping with provocations and innuendos, with a daring sensibility befitting a director whose own...
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Fresh off of Frankenstein and Waterloo Bridge at Universal, director James Whale made another horror film, though much different than the monster feature that preceded it. The Old Dark House is filled with eccentricities and class consciousness that could be seen as a character piece, a satire of ‘dark house’ pictures, and a horror thriller all wra...
From AFI, this movie was considered a lost film for a few decades. A remake was released in 1964 with Tom Poston and Robert Morley. Here’s the fabulous Laura from MovieDivawith the full story:
Available on DVD and recently released on Blu-Ray from the Cohen Film collection. You can alsopurchase or rent it digitally from Amazon.
James Whale, 69 mins, starring: Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey, Boris Karloff, Ernest Thesiger, Eva Moore, Gloria Stuart. It is fitting that James Whale’s 1932 comedy-horror...
- Geoffrey Macnab
Starring: Boris Karloff, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas, Ernest Thesiger, Charles Laughton, Raymond Massey, Lilian Bond, Elspeth Dudgeon, Eva Moore. Genres: Gothic Horror, Chamber Film. Rated the #19 best film of 1932, and #4288 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users).
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- James Whale
- James Whale
- 20 October 1932
The Old Dark House: Directed by James Whale. With Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond. Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
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It's a dark and stormy night at the beginning of James Whale's 1932 horror comedy, a sort of Scream for the early 20th Century which nevertheless remains entertaining today. Driving down a lonely road in rural Wales, a young couple and their friend become trapped by a storm.
