Night of Terror (1933)
Top-billed Bela Lugosi has only a minor role in this routine variant on the Old Dark House scenario, playing a mysterious Indian mystic who is but one of numerous eccentric characters lingering about in an eerie mansion, stalked by an unseen murderer. Other potential victims/suspects include a reporter, a pair of exotic house servants, a fetching heroine, even an extra psychopath thrown in as a red herring. The real killer is eventually discovered and destroyed but, in an inventive and chilling twist, comes back to life to speak directly to the audience in the film's surprise coda -- the only real moment of interest in this otherwise humdrum who-done-it. Also known as He Lived to Kill. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
- Starring:
- Bela Lugosi, Sally Blane, (more)
- Director(s):
- Benjamin Stoloff
Synopsis of Night of Terror
Top-billed Bela Lugosi has only a minor role in this routine variant on the Old Dark House scenario, playing a mysterious Indian mystic who is but one of numerous eccentric characters lingering about in an eerie mansion, stalked by an unseen murderer. Other potential victims/suspects include a reporter, a pair of exotic house servants, a fetching heroine, even an extra psychopath thrown in as a red herring. The real killer is eventually discovered and destroyed but, in an inventive and chilling twist, comes back to life to speak directly to the audience in the film's surprise coda -- the only real moment of interest in this otherwise humdrum who-done-it. Also known as He Lived to Kill. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
Complete Cast of Night of Terror
- Bela Lugosi - Degar
- Wallace Ford - Tom Hartley
- Pat Harmon
- Matt McHugh - Detective Bailey
- Gertrude Michael - Sarah Rinehart
- Bryant Washburn - John Rinehart
- Sally Blane - Mary Rinehart
- Tully Marshall - Richard Rinehart
- Edwin Maxwell - The Maniac
- George Meeker - Arthur Hornsby
- Oscar Smith
- Director(s):
- Benjamin Stoloff
- Writer(s):
- Lester Neilson, William Jacobs, Beatrice Van
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