Stars: Bela Lugosi, Jack Haley, Jean Parker Director: Frank McDonald An insurance investigator arrives at a creepy mansion to protect a millionaire who has had death threats made against him.
Every time I hear Jack Haley speak, all I hear is the sweet calm voice of the Tin Man. Great to see Mr. Lugosi as something other than ol' snaggletooth. ❤
This must be a generation issue. I am so surprised that very few people watched this video and wrote a comment during the last eight years. When I was growing up, there was just ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as PBS. When I was in junior high, everyone was saying, “Cable is coming! We will be able to watch many more stations and lots of sports.” Before cable, during the summer months, we would watch “Dialing for Dollars” Monday thru Friday at 1 p.m. and “Creature Features” every Saturday night at 9 p.m. Back in the 1960s, these old movies were our television staples, as well as an umpteen number of westerns. I truly enjoyed this movie! I never saw this one before.
When I was a kid Bela Lugosi's movies scared me to death. What a wonderful movie! I'm glad to see Mr. Lugosi did this great dark comedy spoof because I suspected him throughout the movie because he's Dracula forever in my mind! Thanks!
Gee: Thank you for the information about Bela's end and Frank Sinatra 's paying burial expenses. I didn't know that. Loved him in Dracula and other movies but he is the quintessential Dracula for me and millions of others.
I loved Mr. Lugosi's films. He was the ultimate Count Dracula. Jack Haley was a talented man. This was a funny film, very enjoyable. My second time around for this one.
Boris Karloff gave roo. Meanwhile, Sinatra's so called friend Sammy Davis Jr died, totally broke and he deserted wife when she asked for his help. He ignored her and the burial problems too. But Bela Lugosi, he worked so hard for his producers etc, Hollywood should have paid. Best charactor acter.
Jack Haley is an American Treasure if an actor n comedian. He is a classic!!! Bela Lugosi is creepy just watching him drop off a tray of spiked coffee n backing out of the room!!! He is the quintessential horror movie persona n just by lurking about even without talking he emotes evil intention n a monsterly sort of way. Yet and still he afds to the underlying humour of the film 📽️!!! Excellent group of actors in a VERY creepy house!! GREAT late night movie fir Friday night!!! Thanks for posting!!!🤐🦉🦇🏚️🎑⚰️🏺🗝️🔎⚱️🔮🪦
"I am scared! What do you think I'm shaking of....enthusiasm?" I really love this kind of "horror" 😨 movies. Thanks for uploading and cheering up my day Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 (next to dutch border).
Peter Lorre and Vincent Price went to his funeral ....seeing him in the coffin in his Dracula costume...Lorre said " Do you think we should maybe drive a stake though his heart...just in case?"
Thanks. I wouldn't call most murder mysteries delightful. But this one might qualify! The humor was soooo well done. Him in that towel; Pulling the fish out of his coat... I was able to laugh, and that has great value! Thanks again (:
Never gets old, that heirs-trapped-in-a creepy-house-fearing- death plot. Good to see Lugosi doing great in a running-gag role knowing he was enduring decades of unsteady employment, destitution, drugs, alcohol and headed toward a 4-yr collaboration with Ed Wood. Still a respected icon; wish he had known.
There's a lot of old movies about being trapped in a house with a monster or a murderer, but it usually comes down to the actors. Often the 'funny' characters were too over the top or there were a crew of hardboiled detectives who thought they were really cool and funny with their wisecracks but they weren't funny at all. Lugosi was always the perfect creepy guy and Haley was clearly good at transferring his vaudeville comedy to the silver screen. (Compare that to, say, Bob Hope [whose stand-up on T.V. was funny] in the 1939 Cat and the Canary, which wasn't all that funny compared to the 1927 version with Creighton Hale. The 1941 movie The Black Cat was another adaption of it and the guy who's supposed to be funny is like an exaggeration of Lou Costello without the Abbott and without Costello's baby face, so he almost ruins the movie. The plot and Basil Rathbone save it.)
@@lisahinton9682 To an extent, but much of the comedy that was popular then was more successful and still consumed by people today who like old movies/shows. Your Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, your Laurel and Hardy, your Charlie Chaplin, etc.
@@MaliceInCandyland totally agree about the guy in the black cat, can't watch it now because of that stupid, affected giggle. The rest of the film is really good though, so it's a shame. I have to take exception about the Bob hope cat and canary. Love that film from start to finish. Best creepy house horror in my opinion. Ghost breakers is another classic.
This is great 40's fun! I love Bela! As a child my dad set up his reel to reel and screened Dracula for us. Enjoyed Bela in several since: a Charley Chan flick, a noir thriller, his moments in Plan Nine, etc. The Corpse Vanishes is 1 of my favs, especially the MST 3000 version. Love the Dorothy Lamour/Rebecca Lake reference. And "This place gives me the creeping meemies" and all the rest of it. Thanks for posting. And Bela is the backwards walking master! "Such fine coffee."Isn't it." "Oh. "Albert!" lol
I remember reading a article about Bela Lugosi's funeral. Vincent Price and Peter Lorre walked by his open casket and Lorre stopped and asked Price, "Do you think we ought to drive a stake through his heart, you know, just to make sure?"
This movie was hilarious. I loved it. The whole time I kept thinking Bella coffee was poisoned and he kept trying to give it to them, lol then it wasn’t in the end… Too hilarious. RIP Bella Lugosi.
It could be an Abbot and Costello film. Costello in the role of Mr. Tuttle, of course. I liked how Tuttle wanders from one room to the another only wearing a towel. The producers of this film should have made more comic/mystery movies with the Mr. Tuttle character. It really works!
A delightfully tongue in cheek, campy creepy movie, replete with things that go "Bump" in the dark. Very cool fun! Bela plays the "Butler", can you guess who did it? Buahahahaha!
Good ole spook movies. Always show up on the late show especially around Halloween. Good ole filming in the dark. Wonder if this qualifies as film noir? Just needed a little more comedic hook. The tin man (Jack Haley) done good though.
Check out "Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff". The two films have much in common but Costello plays scared better than Jack Haley and has a disbelieving Abbott to play off of.
A great modern twist on this kind of film is Ready or Not, htough the premise differs a bit it's still a stuck-in-a-big-house-with-famil- money-on-the-line-until-morning flick, though more survival horror and darker comedy.
I didn't realize that Frank Sinatra paid for his funeral. When Bela and his wife had their son, Frank Sinatra paid the hospital bill. Bela Lugosi was very poorly treated by Hollywood. He also was one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild.
To converluted plot twists and acting that makes one wish for the silent era again. If only Cecil B Demil could direct such picture an huge number of extras needed to save this abomination from the trash-can of oblivion. Waiting patiently for the 1x5x9 monolith to appear an anthropomorphic forward borrowing from Kubrick would improve the last scene…
