"A CHILL-AND-CHUCKLE CHASE!...A FORTUNE AT STAKE AND A MONSTER AT LARGE!" 27 October 1939 Horror, Comedy, Mystery 73 mins
A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.
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Bob Hope as Wally Campbell
Paulette Goddard as Joyce Norman
John Beal as Fred Blythe
Douglass Montgomery as Charles Wilder
Gale Sondergaard as Miss Lu
Elizabeth Patterson as Aunt Susan
Nydia Westman as Cicily
George Zucco as Lawyer Crosby
John Wray as Hendricks
George Regas as Indian Guide
Milton Kibbee as Reporter
Charles Lane as Reporter
Frank Melton as Reporter
Nick Thompson as Indian Guide
Chief Thundercloud as Indian Guide
Elliott Nugent Director
A. E. Freudeman Set Decoration
Archie Marshek Editor
Arthur Hornblow Jr. Producer
Hans Dreier Art Direction
Robert Usher Art Direction
Edith Head Costume Design
John Willard Theatre Play
Charles Lang Director of Photography
Andrea Setaro Music Arranger
Lynn Starling Screenplay
Walter DeLeon Screenplay
Ernst Toch Original Music Composer
Philip Wisdom Sound Recordist
Richard Olson Sound Recordist
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Germany 26 September 2025
Netherlands 27 October 1939
United States 10 November 1939
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