Crimes at the Dark House (1940)

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

PRODUCTION
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
A George King production
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)

Lo strangolatore – 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)

WEB LINKS
Movieflix - see the movie free online here.

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

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008