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Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.
Matthew Boulton
- Coroner
- (uncredited)
Harry Carter
- Warren
- (uncredited)
Alec Craig
- Will, the Groundsman
- (uncredited)
Douglas Gerrard
- Jury Foreman
- (uncredited)
Holmes Herbert
- Chief Constable
- (uncredited)
Eily Malyon
- Mrs. Walton
- (uncredited)
Charles McGraw
- Strud Strudwick
- (uncredited)
Clive Morgan
- Foster
- (uncredited)
John Rogers
- Tom Clagpool
- (uncredited)
Jerry Sheldon
- Villager
- (uncredited)
Donald Stuart
- Charlie Clagpool
- (uncredited)
- Director
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- TriviaKino Lorber's 2016 Blu-ray of this 63-minute movie features a nearly two-hour commentary with Tom Weaver, David Schecter, Dr. Robert J. Kiss and Sumishta Brahm. The latter is the daughter of the movie's director, John Brahm.
- GoofsThere are a number of mistakes in how the coroner's inquest is carried out under English Law. The most obvious are that the coroner at one point prejudicially calls the death a crime, allows another person to question a witness, and deals with the witnesses in the wrong order.
- Quotes
Robert 'Bob' Curtis: [in the crypt] Everyone seems to be resting in peace.
Dr. Jeff Colbert: [sardonically] By daylight, at least.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Creature Features: Return of the Ape Man/The Undying Monster (1971)
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This is a fun watch for a B movie
A curse has been killing the men of Hammond Hall for centuries on cold nights. In 1900, Helga Hammond (Heather Angel) tells the butler that curses don't exist. There are screams from outside the mansion. Helga orders a carriage to be brought round for her while the servants wring their hands and worry. So begins this low budget film from 20th-Century Fox that moves at breakneck speed trying to get in all the plot in just over an hour's running time.
The movie is filled with behind-the-scenes talent that was two years away from peaking. Director John Brahm would hit his stride in 1944-45, when he directed "Guest In The House, "The Lodger (both 1944) and "Hangover Square" (1945) consecutively. Composer David Raksin, best known for the "Theme from "Laura" (1944) scored one of his first films here. Lucien Ballard, who did the atmospheric, skewed photography that plays with the viewers' sense of proportion and reminded me of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), filmed both "Laura" and "The Lodger" (both 1944). The sets were designed by Richard Day and Lewis Creber.
"The Undying Monster" is an marvelous "B" movie that should be better known.
The movie is filled with behind-the-scenes talent that was two years away from peaking. Director John Brahm would hit his stride in 1944-45, when he directed "Guest In The House, "The Lodger (both 1944) and "Hangover Square" (1945) consecutively. Composer David Raksin, best known for the "Theme from "Laura" (1944) scored one of his first films here. Lucien Ballard, who did the atmospheric, skewed photography that plays with the viewers' sense of proportion and reminded me of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), filmed both "Laura" and "The Lodger" (both 1944). The sets were designed by Richard Day and Lewis Creber.
"The Undying Monster" is an marvelous "B" movie that should be better known.
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- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
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