Boris Karloff
Morgan
Melvyn Douglas
Penderel
Charles Laughton
Sir William Porterhouse
Lilian Bond
Gladys
Ernest Thesiger
Horace Femm
Eva Moore
Rebecca Femm
Raymond Massey
Philip Waverton
Gloria Stuart
Margaret Waverton
Elspeth Dudgeon
Sir Roderick Femm
Brember Wills
Saul Femm
Released
en
- #wales
- #based on novel or book
- #family secrets
- #social satire
- #black and white
- #old dark house
- #madness
- #pre-code
- #isolated house
- #stormy night
- #creepy house
- #mute servant
- #social prejudice
Reviews
James Whale really did put together an excellent cast for this comic horror film. On a foul night; five stranded travellers seek shelter in a creepy old Welsh manor house - occupied by the even creepier "Femm" family and their almost anthropoid servant "Morgan" (Boris Karloff). As the evening progresses, lots of drink is taken and we meet the servant's pyromaniac brother and mayhem ensues. There a
Beware The Night. As a violent storm rages, five travellers in a remote part of Wales take refuge at a creepy looking mansion that's home to the "odd" Femm family... Weird, exciting and positively funny haunted house film with a top cast that's directed by one of Horror's greatest directors, James Whale. Based loosely around J.B. Priestley's novel "Benighted", the piece is further boosted by