THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: James Whale
Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart,
Melvyn Douglas, Ernest Thesiger, Lilian Bond,
Raymond Massey, Eva Moore, Elspeth Dudgeon
A macabre drawing-room comedy - more accurately a dining-room comedy - about some young travelers who take shelter in an old Welsh mansion on a dark and stormy night. A little creaky but still fun, with a literate script and a good cast, directed in the spirit of a Halloween prank by James ("Frankenstein") Whale. The Gloria Stuart who appears here is the same Gloria Stuart who turned up 65 years later as the elderly Rose in "Titanic".
Gloria Stuart
(1910-2010)
