The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
Gertrude Michael
- Sarah Rinehart
- (as Gertrude Michaels)
Pat Harmon
- Cab Driver
- (uncredited)
Otto Hoffman
- Professor
- (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
- Prof. John Andre
- (uncredited)
Dave O'Brien
- Young Victim
- (uncredited)
Richard Powell
- Detective Dooley
- (uncredited)
Oscar Smith
- Martin the Chauffeur
- (uncredited)
Emma Tansey
- Little Old Lady
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAlthough Edwin Maxwell is credited as playing "The Maniac", it is Bela Lugosi himself playing the bulk of the role in the heavy makeup disguise---and his features can easily be recognized in spite of it, thanks to his mesmerizing "Dracula" stare. (There is no match for Edwin's eyes, nor with the rest of his facial features, with the maniac.)
- GoofsDuring the police interrogation approx 53 mins into the movie the character is asked by the police chief 'Where is the serum' The reply was meant to be 'in the laboratory' but a Malaprop occurred and the character replied 'In the lavatory'. The same Malaprop occurred again less than a minute later by the police officer who, holding Degar at gunpoint orders 'C'mon,where's the lavatory'?
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Martin the Chauffeur: I was right! When I said they was... undertakers!
Degar: Remember... you have seen... NOTHING!
- Crazy creditsIn the opening credits the actors are introduced with their character names only, not their real names. At the end the actors' names are listed but without their character names.
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Good Bela Mystery
This is a classic murder mystery set at a spooky old mansion. Wealthy Richard Rinehart is murdered at his posh estate. There are plenty of kooky and creepy people about who frequent the manor. Bela plays a household servant, a mystic who believes in his wife's ability to foretell the future.
Wallace Ford plays the wise cracking reporter who seems one step ahead of the police. While the police believe an escaped maniac is the killer, Ford probes to learn who will benefit from Rinehart's murder.
One problem I have with the film is the escaped maniac who is about and who is killing people in the area. We are told that he has already murdered 12 people. The police then announce he was last seen around the Rinehart estate. He murders a yard worker at the estate early on and then spends the rest of the film peering in windows and skulking about the estate. It is beyond reason that the maniac is not captured or that the police are not hunting madly for a man who has murdered 13 people. That said, I understand he is present as a red herring and the murderer has used the maniac's present to commit the murder.
Wallace Ford plays the wise cracking reporter who seems one step ahead of the police. While the police believe an escaped maniac is the killer, Ford probes to learn who will benefit from Rinehart's murder.
One problem I have with the film is the escaped maniac who is about and who is killing people in the area. We are told that he has already murdered 12 people. The police then announce he was last seen around the Rinehart estate. He murders a yard worker at the estate early on and then spends the rest of the film peering in windows and skulking about the estate. It is beyond reason that the maniac is not captured or that the police are not hunting madly for a man who has murdered 13 people. That said, I understand he is present as a red herring and the murderer has used the maniac's present to commit the murder.
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- nova-63
- Sep 7, 2009
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