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Robb White (writer)
Release Date:
June 1961 (USA) more
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A WORD OF WARNING! Please don't reveal the ending of this picture or your friends will kill you - IF THEY DON'T, I WILL! - William Castle more
Plot:
The brutal stabbing murder of a justice-of-the-peace sparks an investigation of dark family secrets in a sleepy small town in Southern California. full summary | add synopsis
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(9 articles)
DVD: Review:The William Castle Film Collection
(From The AV Club. 10 November 2009, 10:01 PM, PST)
New on DVD This Week
(From The Flickcast. 20 October 2009, 1:00 PM, PDT)
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Another under rated horror classic more (58 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Glenn Corbett | ... | Karl Anderson |
| Patricia Breslin | ... | Miriam Webster |
| Eugenie Leontovich | ... | Helga Swenson |
| Alan Bunce | ... | Doctor Jonas |
| Richard Rust | ... | Jim Nesbitt |
| James Westerfield | ... | Alfred S. Adrims (Justice of the Peace) |
| Gilbert Green | ... | Lt. Miller |
| Joan Marshall | ... | Emily / Warren (as Jean Arless) |
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87 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Finland:K-15 (2005) | UK:12 (1996) | UK:X (1961) (cut) | USA:Unrated
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In the final reel, when Miriam is about to go into the house for the big climax, there was a one minute "Fright Break" in which producer/director William Castle advised the audience that anyone too scared to see the climax could go into the lobby and get their money back. For this gimmick, Columbia shipped a cardboard "Coward's Corner" to theaters playing the film. Supposedly, audience members too frightened to see the climax could go to the "Coward's Corner" and wait there until the film ended and the rest of the audience filed past. more
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Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, the calendar in the hotel shows the date as September 5th. Miriam/Emily tells the bellhop they must marry on September 6th (this is so they will be married by Warren's 21st birthday). But in a close-up of Warren's birth certificate, it shows August 7th, 1940 as his birth date. So they're gonna have to wait nearly a year to celebrate. more
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Prologue Host: We've been to Haunted Hills, and through Tinglers, and even Ghosts... but now we're going to meet a group of people who just happen to be... Homicidal. more
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I watched this late one night on my own in the 1970s and was scared and shocked. For years I wondered who Jean Arliss was until I was able to do some research on the internet. William Castle was a master of horror and gimmicks. This was one of a few horror movies that really left an impression on me.
Other movies which scared me on TV as a child or teenager in the 1960s and 1970s were:- The Tingler, 13 Ghosts, Psycho, Carnival of Souls, The Mad Magician and House of Wax.