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23 de nov. de 2004 · Based(very loosely)on Wilkie Collins "The Woman In White",Crimes At The Dark House is a fast moving ripe melodrama with that doyen of overacting Tod Slaughter as its helm.He plays Sir Percival Glyde who returns after 25 years out in the Australian Gold mines to his ancestral home to find the entire estate in debt.Problem solved - marry the nearest rich girl and remove any other impediment to ...
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Written by CinemaSerf on December 4, 2023. In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the ...
9 de dic. de 2023 · Crimes At The Dark House 1940. A madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate. Uploaded by ekminer on December 9, 2023. A madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate.
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Crimes at the Dark House. A madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate so he can murder his enemies. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 7 days to finish once started.
This vintage black-and-white British horror tinted thriller,Tod Slaughter(THE FACE AT THE WINDOW,MURDER IN THE RED BARN) delivers a Vincent Price style demented performance as an escaped crackling convict who kills a wealthy man and takes his place as he arrives at the slain man's manor and tales over everything that is there while he brings about death and destruction upon those who cross his ...
This may sound vaguely familiar to you if you've seen the 1948 Warner Bros. Gothic drama The Woman in White. Indeed, both the Warner film and Crimes in the Dark House were based on the same 1860 novel by Wilkie Collins -- and both are good gory fun in their own separate ways.
Crimes At The Dark House is a spectacular gem. Despite its age it is genuinely horrible, with a “can’t take your eyes off him” turn from its star, a witty script (“You always said you were a teetotaller… now you’re going to have a nice drop!”) and a galloping, not-a-shot-wasted pace.
