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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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(in credits order) (verified as complete) | 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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| Edward Biby | ... | Sinister Plotter (uncredited) |
| Frank Hagney | ... | Sinister Plotter (uncredited) |
| Lew Harvey | ... | Sinister Plotter (uncredited) |
| Wendell Niles | ... | Police Broadcaster (uncredited) |
| Henry Otho | ... | Sinister Plotter (uncredited) |
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| William C. McGann | (as William McGann) | ||
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| Ralph Spence | play "The Gorilla" and | |
| Ralph Murphy | play "Sh, the Octopus" and | |
| Donald Gallaher | play "Sh, the Octopus" | |
| George Bricker | (screenplay) | |
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| Bryan Foy | .... | associate producer (uncredited) | |
| Hal B. Wallis | .... | executive producer (uncredited) | |
| Jack L. Warner | .... | executive producer (uncredited) | |
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| Heinz Roemheld | (uncredited) | ||
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| Arthur L. Todd | (as Arthur Todd) | ||
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| Clarence Kolster | |||
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| Max Parker | |||
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| N'was McKenzie | (gowns) | ||
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| Arthur Lueker | .... | assistant director (uncredited) | |
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| Francis J. Scheid | .... | sound | |
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| David Raksin | .... | composer: title music (uncredited) | |
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| Hugh Cummings | .... | dialogue director | |
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54 min
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USA:Approved (PCA #3615)
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The original play opened in New York on 21 February 1928.
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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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Remade as The Gorilla (1939)
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Saw this movie in 1928 when I was ten years old with my sister 13 and cousin 8. My cousin had nightmares and ever since then has been afraid of an octopus. Why I remember this film I don't know but I do remember it. Had the pleasure of seeing it again on TCM. While it is not a very good movie, in fact probably a very poor one, the memory of having seen it way back when it first was released, was a good one. I do remember that as a kid I liked Hugh Herbert very much and, myself, would often utter his famous sound "woo-woo" much to the consternation of those around me. Hugh Herbert was in many films in his long career, I wonder how many remember him. At the very least, both my cousin and I both do.