Crimes at the Dark House | |
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Directed by | George King |
Produced by | George King (producer) Odette King (producer) |
Written by | Wilkie Collins (novel The Woman In White) Edward Dryhurst (writer) Frederick Hayward (writer) H.F. Maltby (writer) |
Starring | See below |
Music by | Jack Beaver |
Cinematography | Hone Glendinning |
Editing by | Jack Harris |
Release date(s) | 1940 |
Running time | 69 minutes |
Country | UK |
Language | English |
Crimes at the Dark House is a (1940) British film directed by George King starring Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott and Hilary Eaves. It is loosely based on the novel The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
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In this lurid melodrama Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit his estate in England. On arriving in England he schemes to marry an heiress for her money and, with the connivance of the enigmatic Count Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and get in the way of his plans to be the Lord the Manor.
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