Thirteen ghosts. Thirteen frightened girls. Mister Sardonicus. Homicidal. The old dark house.
Notes:
The old dark house based on a novel by J.B. Priestley; remake of a film made in 1932. 13 ghosts: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner, Rosemary DeCamp, Donald Woods, Margaret Hamilton, John Van Dreelen. 13 frightened girls: Murray Hamilton, Joyce Taylor, Hugh Marlowe, Khigh Dhiegh, Kathy Dunn, Lynne Sue Moon, Charlie Briggs, Norma Varden. Mr. Sardonicus: Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Oskar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erika Peters. Homicidal: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bruce, Richard Rust. The old dark house: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell, Mervyn Johns, Fenella Fielding, Peter Bull.
Contents:
[Disc 1]. 13 ghosts (1960 ; b & w, 85 min.) ; 13 frightened girls (1963 ; col., 88 min.) -- [Disc 2]. Mr. Sardonicus (1961 ; b & w, 90 min.) ; Homicidal (1961 ; b & w, 88 min.) ; The old dark house (1962 ; col., 87 min.).
Summary:
13 ghosts: When an eccentric uncle wills a huge, ramshackle house to his impoverished family, they get the shock of a lifetime. Their new residence comes complete with a spooky housekeeper, plus a fortune in a buried treasure and 12 horrifying ghosts. 13 frightened girls: The girls of a Swiss boarding school have one thing in common, they are all daughters of diplomats. One in particular finds out that she has a knack for espionage, and uncovers the murder of a Russian diplomat. Now she must escape using her girlish wiles. Mr. Sardonicus: Desperate to retrieve a winning lottery ticket, a greedy man unearths his father's corpse. An enormous jackpot is his reward, but not without price: his face is frozen permanently into a hideous grin. He enlists his one-eyed servant to help him lift the curse. Homicidal: In the small town of Solvang, there's a killer on the loose and the nurse taking care of a wheelchair bound stroke victim has a bedside manner to die for. As the truth is uncovered, a town's most chilling mystery will be revealed ... and a family's darkest secret. The old dark house: An American car salesman living in London is invited to spend the weekend at the Femm estate. The Femms, trapped in the house due to an ancestor's will, live in fear as they are taken out one at a time. Tom is left to figure out who the killer is before he becomes a victim himself.
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