Crimes at the Dark House (1940)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1940
Running Times:
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

DIRECTION

A George King production

PRODUCTION
Copyright: not given
Production Company: Pennant Picture Productions
Produced by: Odette King
Production Management: Jack Martin

SCRIPT
Scenario: Edward Dryhurst
Adaptation: Frederick Hayward
Dialogue: H.F. Maltby
Based on the world-famous novel The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Hal Mason

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Hone Glendinning

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editing: Jack Harris

MUSIC
Music: Jack Beaver

SOUND
Rerecording: Harold King

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Bernard Robinson

LOCATIONS
Studio: M.P. Studios, Elstree, England

CAST

Tod Slaughter (Sir Percival Glyde)
Sylvia Marriott (Laurie Fairlie)
Hilary Eaves (Marion Fairlie)
Geoffrey Wardwell (Paul Hartwright)
Hay Petrie (Dr Fosco)
Margaret Yarde (Mrs Bullen)
Rita Grant (Jessica)
David Horne (Frederick Fairlie)
Elsie Wagstaff (Mrs Catherick)
David Keir (Mr Merriman)

UK
Theatrical Distributors: Ambassador Films; British Lion Films Ltd

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Exploitation Pictures Inc
Video Distributors: Nostalgia Merchant; Sinister Cinema
DVD Distributors: Alpha Video (ALP 4557D)

Strangolatore, Lo – Italian title

TIMELINE

1985
September
8: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

1998
March
28: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 4)

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Tangled Lives (1917)
The Twin Pawns (1919)
The Woman in White (1912a)
The Woman in White (1912b)
The Woman in White (1917)
The Woman in White (1929)
The Woman in White (1948)
The Woman in White (1997)
The Woman in White (1982)
Zhenshchina v belom (1982)

MAGAZINES

Kinematograph Weekly no.1918 (20 January 1944) (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.7 no.75 (March 1940) p.35 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Today's Cinema vol.54 no.4383 (28 February 1940) (UK)
review

Today's Cinema vol.62 no.4982 (18 January 1944) (UK)
review

BOOKS

English Gothic (2nd edition) by Jonathan Rigby (London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd (2000, 2002)  ISBN: 1-903111-35-8) pp.23-24
illustrated review

Fragments of Fear by Andy Boot (London: Creation Books (1996)  ISBN: 1 871592 35 6) pp.18, 25, 26
note, illustrated review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

book into film, impersonation, inheritances, strangulation

CATEGORIES

Horror - UK | Films (C) | Films - 1940 | Horror Films - 1940 | UK Films - 1940 | UK Horror Films - 1940

Last Updated: 1 May, 2009