Top billed cast

1. 

   Boris Karloff

   Hjalmar Poelzig

2. 

   Bela Lugosi

   Dr. Vitus Werdegast

3. 

   David Manners

   Peter Alison

4. 

   Julie Bishop

   Joan Alison

5. 

   Egon Brecher

   The Majordomo

6. 

   Harry Cording

   Thamal

7. 

   Lucille Lund

   Karen

8. 

   Henry Armetta

   The Sergeant

9. 

   Albert Conti

   The Lieutenant

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-13

This great pairing of Messrs. Karloff and Lugosi make for a fun, if not particularly scary, horror movie from Universal. An honeymoon couple are travelling through Hungary when their bus is involved in an accident near the castle of "Hjalmar Poelzig" (Karloff). Together with fellow traveller "Vitus Werdegast" (a slightly theatrical Lugosi) they seek refuge and find themselves caught up in a tale of retribution between the two men that results in a game of chess not seen since the "Seventh Seal". It doesn't hang about - only just over an hour of creepily shot, tautly directed drama that makes f...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$95,745.00

Revenue
$236,000.00

Keywords

• chess
• prisoner of war
• hungary
• black and white
• train
• storm
• psychiatrist
• black cat
• spiral staircase
• high priest
• newlywed
• pre-code
• based on short story
• satanic ritual
• satanic cult
• psychotronic
• preserved corpse
• female corpse
• devil worship
• mystery writer
• wife murderer
• woman in peril
• bus crash
• europe honeymoon
• flaying
• glass display cases
• gun turret
• married to stepdaughter