The Old Dark House (Blu-ray)
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The Old Dark House (DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: October 24, 2017
- Originally Released: 1932
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart & Charles Laughton | |
| Performer: | Raymond Massey, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger & Eva Moore | |
| Directed by | James Whale | |
| Edited by | Clarence Kolster | |
| Screenplay by | Benn W. Levy | |
| Original story by | J.B. Priestley | |
| Art Direction by | Charles D. Hall | |
| Produced by | Carl Laemmle Jr. | |
| Director of Photography: | Arthur Edeson |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 5/5 --
A titter-inducing drawing-room farce (but deliberately so).
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Times (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
This is a horror film so perfect that anyone who wants to make them should watch it before they start.
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Irish Independent
The film is shot through in almost every scene by a wholly individual sense of comic timing and bizarre juxtaposition.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Rating: 4/5 --
A lost minor classic. Go and rediscover.
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Financial Times
[The film] combines spirited special effects and some genuinely creepy moments with self-parodic humour and some warped eroticism.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
The Old Dark House was Whale's second horror film after 1931's Frankenstein and his return to the genre sees the director leaning fully in to its gothic tropes.
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CineVue
Rating: 5/5 --
The film is funny and blood-curdling by turns.
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Independent (UK)
Product Description:
James Whale's horror-comedy classic is one of the first and best of the travelers-forced-to-spend-the-night-in-a spooky-house genre films. Driving through a dangerous rainstorm, Philip and Margaret Waverton (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart) and friend Penderel (Melvyn Douglas) must seek shelter at a foreboding Welsh mansion. Met by the disfigured, mute butler Morgan (Boris Karloff) and the bizarre members of the Femm family, the guests quickly realize that something is awry in the shadowy mansion. When the lights go out, the situation becomes even more ominous. Will the stranded travelers make it through the night in the old dark house'
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 111,509
- UPC: 741952840893
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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