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Sh! The Octopus (1937)
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14 December 1937 (USA)
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Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers...
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Doesn't make much sense, but ENJOY IT!
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(Complete credited cast) | Hugh Herbert | ... | Detective Harold Kelly |
 | Allen Jenkins | ... | Detective Dempsey |
| Marcia Ralston | ... | Vesta Vernoff |
| John Eldredge | ... | Paul Morgan |
| George Rosener | ... | Capt. Hook |
| Brandon Tynan | ... | Capt. Cobb (as Brandon Tyman) |
| Eric Stanley | ... | Police Commissioner Patrick Aloysious Clancy |
| Margaret Irving | ... | Polly Crane |
| Elspeth Dudgeon | ... | Nanny |
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54 min
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USA:Approved (PCA #3615)
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The transformation scene was done in much the same way the beginning part of the transformation was done on Dr. Jeckyll and Mr Hyde. The actress was made up in exaggerated highlights and shadows (including her teeth) using a single color shade of makeup. When filmed through a filter the same shade as the makeup, it's invisible to the camera. Take the filter away and the makeup suddenly becomes visible. Besides a filter, the makeup can also be hidden by similar colored light. This type of trick was only possible on black and white film, of course.
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Crew or equipment visible: In many scenes, wires operating the octopus's tentacles can be seen.
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Vesta Vernoff:
[after discovering the "body" of her stepfather] Poor Nannie!
Detective Dempsey: Who's Nannie?
Detective Harold Kelly: Nannie's a goat! Whooooooo!
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Detective Dempsey: Who's Nannie?
Detective Harold Kelly: Nannie's a goat! Whooooooo!
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Remake of The Gorilla (1927)
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This film is sort of a "nautical" version of the Ritz Bros. "the Gorilla". A criminal known as the "Octopus" is trying to get a secret device from an inventor stranded on an island (with a lighthouse), along with many suspicious characters. (One of whom is the "Octopus"!).
As in the "Gorilla", the plot of this film doesn't make much sense, but sit back & enjoy the thrills & jitters of the secret panels, clutching octopus tentacles (!) and spooky atmosphere! This film is for pure enjoyment; and not to be "analyzed"!
One interesting note: at the end of the film, one of the suspects turns into the "Octopus"& the effect is AMAZING! I pride myself on how they did special effects back then, but I can't figure this out, as the film does NOT "stop action" & change the person into the Octopus; it happens "live"!
Get out the popcorn & enjoy this great escapist film!