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Prof. Morlant
Cedric Hardwicke
Broughton
Ernest Thesiger
Laing
Ralph Richardson
Nigel Hartley
Dorothy Hyson
Betty Harlon
Anthony Bushell
Ralph Morlant
Kathleen Harrison
Kaney
Harold Huth
Aga Ben Dragore
D.A. Clarke-Smith
Mahmoud
Jack Raine
Davis the Chauffeur (uncredited)
George Relph
Doctor (uncredited)
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Review 2DiscussionA review by John Chard
5
Written by John Chard on Sat May 24 2014
Almost his last words were a threat to return from the dead. In my opinion, he was mad!
A tricky one to review in some ways, for someone like myself who loves to submerge himself in anything Noir, Expressionistic or Gothic. There's also the added impact value here of the cast list, with Karloff, Hardwicke, Thesiger and Richardson making a quadruple list of British treasures. While of course there's the not so small fact that the film was sort of lost for decades, and even when it surfaced it was the victim of some awful transfers onto home entertainment formats. So it has been like discoveri...
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