Dark Intruder
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Dark Intruder is a 1965 television movie that was released theatrically. It is a horror film starring Leslie Nielsen, Mark Richman and Judi Meredith set in San Francisco in 1890 concerning playboy sleuth Brett Kingsford ( Nielson). Kingsford is an expert on the supernatural and along with his dwarf assistant Nicola he helps the police uncover the scheme of a Sumerian demon to return to earth and take over a human body.
This atmospheric black and white film is only 59 minutes long and was directed by Harvey Hart. It was the pilot for a failed television series called " The Black Cloak and was written by Barré Lyndon. In plot and character it greatly resembles Chamber of Horrors which was made the next year and had a similar fate.
