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Time Out Film Guide, 13th Edition
by John Pym
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with references to "old dark house".
Excerpt - on Page 47: "
... has always been easy to mock haunted house films. Self-parody is almost built into the genre. From James Whale's The Old Dark House (1932), in which a party of travellers are stranded in a rambling Welsh mansion with the quintessentially creepy Femm family, ... "
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Time Out Film Guide, 14th Edition, 2006
by John Pym
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with references to "old dark house".
Excerpt - on Page 97: "
... popular Broadway whodunit (by Mary Robert Rinehart and Avery Hopwood). The creaky plot, about a super-thief hiding out in an old dark house and terrify- ing its inhabitants, is virtually incomprehensible, a non- stop succession of spooky clichés strung together with scant regard ... "
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British Horror Cinema (British Popular Cinema)
by Steve Chibnall
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with references to "old dark house".
Excerpt - on Page 62: "
... attempt by Gaumont-British to create a version of the American horrors and reproduce aspects of recent Karloff productions - The Old Dark House ( 1932) and, especially, The Mummy- (1932) -for which he had received excellent reviews (see Bolarski and Beals 1976: 78, ... "
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Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide
by Leonard Maltin
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with references to "old dark house".
Excerpt - on Page 34: "
... Merkel, Chance Ward, Richard Tucker, DeWitt Jen- nings, Maude Ebume, Spencer Charters, Wil- liam Bakewell, Gustav von Seyffertitz. Excruciatingly archaic "old dark house" thriller about the search fora mysterious killer known as The Bat. Of interest to buffs for its striking visuals, including ... "
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