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The Old Dark House (1932)

Ripper......: VH-PROD         Length.........: 70 min
Source......: DVD             Aspect Ratio...: 1.33:1
Type........: XviD            Resolution.....: 512x384
Disks.......: [x]1CD [ ]2CD
Rars........: 50x15MB         Video Bitrate..: 1241 kb/s
Video Framerate: 23.976
VH-PROD Rls.: 8/20/03         Audio Bitrate..: 79 kb/s
DVD Release.: 8/13/99         Audio Language.: English
Theater Date: 10/20/32        Stream Type....: [x]Mp3 [ ]Ac3
Channels.......: [ ]Stereo
IMDB Rating.: 7.3/10                           [x]Mono
IMDB Votes..: 364
Genre.......: [ ] Action      Subtitles......: [ ] English
Comedy   [ ] Drama        [ ] French      [ ] Spanish
Romance  [ ] Family       [ ] Chinese     [ ] Japanese
Sci-Fi   [ ] Musical      [ ] Thai        [ ] Hindi
[x] Horror   [ ] Fantasy      [ ] German      [ ] Dutch
War      [ ] Crime        [ ] Portuguese  [x] None
Documentary

IMDB Link: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0023293

P L O T

Seeking shelter from a pounding rainstorm in a remote
region of Wales, several travellers are admitted to a
gloomy, foreboding mansion belonging to the extremely
strange Femm family. Trying to make the best of it,
the guests must deal with their sepulchral host,
Horace Femm and his obsessive, malevolent sister
Rebecca. Things get worse as the brutish manservant
Morgan gets drunk, runs amuck and releases the long
pent-up brother Saul, a psychotic pyromaniac who
gleefully tries to destroy the residence by setting it
on fire.

C A S T

Boris Karloff ........... Morgan
Melvyn Douglas ...... Roger Penderel
Charles Laughton .... Sir William Porterhouse
Lilian Bond ............. Gladys DuCane
Ernest Thesiger ...... Horace Femm
Eva Moore ............. Rebecca Femm
Raymond Massey .... Philip Waverton
Gloria Stuart .......... Margaret Waverton
Elspeth Dudgeon .... Sir Roderick Femm
Brember Wills ......... Saul Femm

R E L E A S E  N O T E S

The father is played by Elspeth Dudgeon, a female.

Due to legal reasons, this film has never been syndicated
to television.

This film was not included in the "Shock Theatre" package
with the other Universal horror films.

There was a period in which this was believed to be a
lost film. It's believed that all current prints were
derived from a surviving 16mm print.

The Audio on the DVD is sub-par, "with serious pops and
hisses throughout. The noise floor is extremely high,
washing over some of the dialogs and much of the ambient
sound effects that help build the film's intensive
atmosphere". Nevertheless, we ran the audio thru a
de-noiser in CoolEdit before encoding to mp3, resulting
in a slightly cleaner audio track.

See www.dvdreview.com/fullreviews/the_old_dark_house.shtml