The Old Dark House (1932) |
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Other InformationPlot SummarySeeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepu... (www.imdb.com/title/tt0023293/plotsummary) TaglineBeware the night! Related MoviesHaunted Honeymoon [Spoofed in] (Year of movie: 1986) The Rocky Horror Picture Show [Spoofed in] (Year of movie: 1975) Who Killed Who? [Spoofed in] (Year of movie: 1943) House of 1000 Corpses [Featured in] (Year of movie: 2003) Universal Horror [Featured in] (Year of movie: 1998) Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream [Featured in] (Year of movie: 1998) Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed! [Referenced in] (Year of movie: 2000) The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale [Referenced in] (Year of movie: 1999) She`s Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein [Referenced in] (Year of movie: 1999) Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed [Referenced in] (Year of movie: 1999) The Old Dark House [Version of] (Year of movie: 1963) |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Rebecca Femm: [feels the fabric of Margaret Waverton`s low-cut gown] ... fine stuff, but it`ll rot.
Rebecca Femm: [touches Margaret`s skin above the neckline] ... finer stuff still, but it`ll rot too! Gladys DuCane: I know wind when I see it. [Morgan slowly opens the door]
Morgan: [groaning and muttering]
Roger Penderel: Even Welsh ought not to sound like that! Roger Penderel: There`s someone outside.
Rebecca Femm: They can`t come in! Horace Femm: We make our own electric light here, and we are not very good at it. Pray, don`t be alarmed if they go out altogether Margaret Waverton: Well, I know what I`m going to do. That is if Miss Femm will let me.
Rebecca Femm: What?
Margaret Waverton: I`m dreadfully wet and I`d be so glad if I could go and change my clothes.
Margaret Waverton: What?
Rebecca Femm: I wondered if I might go and change my things.
Margaret Waverton: You look wet. You`d better go and change your things. Margaret Waverton: It`s a dreadful night.
Rebecca Femm: What?
Margaret Waverton: I said it`s a dreadful night.
Rebecca Femm: Yes, it`s a very old house. Very old.
Margaret Waverton: It`s very kind of you to let us stay.
Rebecca Femm: What?
Margaret Waverton: I say you`re very kind.
Rebecca Femm: Yes it is a dreadful night. I`m a little deaf.
Margaret Waverton: I understand.
Rebecca Femm: Yes. No beds! Rebecca Femm: What is it? What do they want?
Horace Femm: Allow me to introduce my sister, Miss Rebecca Femm.
Roger Penderel, Philip Waverton, Margaret Waverton: How do you do?
Rebecca Femm: What are they doing here? What do they want?
Roger Penderel, Philip Waverton, Margaret Waverton: How do you do?
Rebecca Femm: What did they say? What do they want? What are they doing here? What`s all the fuss about? What?
Horace Femm: You must excuse my sister, she`s a little deaf. In fact sometimes quite deaf. Horace Femm: [picking up a bunch of flowers] My sister was on the point of arranging these flowers.
[He tosses them into the fire] Sir William Porterhouse: Oh, nothing like roast beef when a man`s hungry.
[sings]
Sir William Porterhouse: Oh, the roast beef of Old England... how does that go? Do you remember that Mr Waverton or was that before your time?
Philip Waverton: Penderel`s our song expert.
Sir William Porterhouse: Oh, so you`re musical, are you? Well, I`ve got a bit of a good ear myself...
Horace Femm: [knocking loudly on the table] Have a potato! Horace Femm: It`s only gin, you know. Only gin. I like gin. Horace Femm: The fact is, Morgan is an uncivilized brute. Sometimes he drinks heavily. A night like this will set him going and once he`s drunk he`s rather dangerous. Rebecca Femm: They were all godless here. They used to bring their women here - brazen, lolling creatures in silks and satins. They filled the house with laughter and sin, laughter and sin. And if I ever went down among them, my own father and brothers - they would tell me to go away and pray, and I prayed - and left them with their lustful red and white women.Trivia The rights to this film reverted to novelist `J.B. Priestly` after 25 years. The film was then purchased by Raymond Rohauer, whose company still owns it, administered by Douris Corp.
On the back cover of the Kino DVD release, the roles played by Gloria Stuart and Lilian Bond are reversed.
This film was withdrawn from circulation when the remade version in 1963 by William Castle Productions was released. This film was considered to be lost until director Curtis Harrington discovered a printable negative. According to modern sources, Melvyn Douglas replaced Russell Hopton for the role of Roger Penderel and Raymond Massey replaced Walter Byron for the role of Philip Waverton. This was Charles Laughton`s first American film.
This film was not included in the "Shock Theatre" package with the other Universal horror films. The father is played by Elspeth Dudgeon, a female.
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