Additional information for The Old Dark House, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 20, 1932. The film is being distributed by Universal Pictures and has not yet been rated. The Old Dark House has a total running time of 72 minutes.
PG
UK
PG
Australia
TV-G
USA
72min
Överaskade av natten
Sweden
A Velha Casa Assombrada
Brazil
Az öreg sötét ház
Hungary
Das Haus des Grauens
Germany
Das Haus des Schreckens
Austria
El caserón de las sombras
Spain
Il castello maledetto
Italy
In de macht van het monster
Netherlands
La maison de la mort
France
La maison grise
Belgium
Stary mroczny dom
Poland
To spiti tou mystiriou
Greece
Une soirée étrange
France
Vleselijke begeerte
Belgium
October 20, 1932
USA
December 30, 1932
Netherlands
March 07, 1933
Spain
April 06, 1934
France
March 10, 1989
West Germany
May 27, 1998
USA
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Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when the stumble upon the Femm family estate.
On a stormy night in Wales, five people, Philip and Margaret Waverton, their friend Penderel, Sir William Porterhouse and his lady friend, chorus girl Gladys Perkins, whose stage name is DuCane, seek refuge in a gloomy house off the road. The denizens of the house include Horace Femm, an hysteric, his sister Rebecca, a religious fanatic, and Morgan, their scarred, brutish butler, who is a mute. At dinner, Horace confides that sometime in the past, their sister Rachel died in a mysterious fashion. As the evening progresses, the Wavertons discover the Femms' 102-year-old father in an upstairs room. Transformed by drink, Morgan pursues attractive Margaret up the stairs, where he craftily releases another brother, pyromaniac Saul, from his locked room at the top. Penderal and Gladys have fallen in love at first sight. They break the news to Sir William who, because he is still in love with his dead wife, is not very upset. Soon after, Penderal encounters the liberated Saul in one of the dark rooms. At first Saul seems to be the only sane inhabitant of the house, but he proves that he is as crazy as the rest when he tries to kill Penderal. Both men are wounded in the fight that follows. Morgan, having sobered up a little, carries the wounded Saul back to his room. After Gladys treats Penderal, dawn finally breaks and the storm is over. The five guests leave the house behind as quickly as possible and Horace cheerfully bids them goodbye, as if the events of the night had never happened.
James Whale
Director(s)
J.B. Priestley
Benn W. Levy
R.C. Sherriff
Writer(s)
Carl Laemmle Jr.
producer
E.M. Asher
associate producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
Morgan
Boris Karloff
Penderel
Melvyn Douglas
Sir William Porterhouse
Charles Laughton
Gladys (as Lillian Bond)
Lilian Bond
Horace Femm
Ernest Thesiger
Rebecca Femm
Eva Moore
Philip Waverton
Raymond Massey
Margaret Waverton
Gloria Stuart
Sir Roderick Femm (as John Dudgeon)
Elspeth Dudgeon
Saul Femm
Brember Wills
Director(s)
Benn W. Levy
R.C. Sherriff
Writer(s)
producer
E.M. Asher
associate producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
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