The Old Dark House

The Old Dark House (1932)

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Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm

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in a remote region of Wales, several

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travellers are admitted to a gloomy,

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foreboding mansion belonging to the

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extremely strange Femm family. Trying to

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make the best of it, the guests must deal

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with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm

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and his obsessive, malevolent sister Rebecca.

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Things get worse as the brutish manservant

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Morgan gets drunk, runs amuck and releases

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the long pent-up brother Saul, a psychotic

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pyromaniac who gleefully tries to destroy

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the residence by setting it on fire.

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Boris Karloff .... Morgan

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Melvyn Douglas .... Roger Penderel

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Charles Laughton .... Sir William Porterhouse

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Lilian Bond .... Gladys DuCane

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Ernest Thesiger .... Horace Femm

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Eva Moore .... Rebecca Femm

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Raymond Massey .... Philip Waverton

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Gloria Stuart .... Margaret Waverton

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Elspeth Dudgeon .... Sir Roderick Femm (as John Dudgeon)

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Brember Wills .... Saul Femm

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The father is played by Elspeth Dudgeon, a female.

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