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The Ghoul (1933)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1933
Running Times: 73 mins     79 mins
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Gaumont British Picture Corporation Ltd
Producer: Michael Balcon (uncredited)
Unit Manager: Geoffrey Boothby

SCRIPT
Script: Leonard Hines, Roland Pertwee, John Hastings Turner
Play: Frank King

DIRECTION
Director: T. Hayes Hunter
Assistant Director: R. Lyons

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Günther Krampf

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Ian Dalrymple, Ralph Kemplen

MUSIC
Music: Louis Levy
Music Adaptations: Rupert Downing

SOUND
Sound Recordist: A. Birch

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Heinrich Heitfeld

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Alfred Junge

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Personnel: George Gunn, Angus MacPhail

CAST
Boris Karloff (Professor Morlant)
Cedric Hardwicke (Broughton)
Ernest Thesiger (Laing)
Dorothy Hyson (Betty Harlon)
Anthony Bushell (Ralph Morlant)
Kathleen Harrison (Kaney)
Harold Huth (Aga Ben Dragore)
D.A. Clarke-Smith (Mahmoud)
Ralph Richardson (Nigel Hartley)
Jack Raine (Davis - uncredited)

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Janus Films
Video Distributors: Nostalgia Video; Sinister Cinema; Something Weird Video; Unknown Video

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Australia
Rating: PG

UK
Rating: A (original rating); PG (video rating in 1996)

TIMELINE

2004
May

3: UK - television broadcast (on The Horror Channel)
4: UK - television broadcast (on The Horror Channel)
26: UK - television broadcast (on The Horror Channel)

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

El resucitado - Spanish title

LINKS

REMAKE
What a Carve Up! (1962)

KEYWORDS

play into film

 


Last Updated: 1 January, 2009

 


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