Aldwych farce. Acting as legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow sells the titular country house to Mrs Frush - who then complains that it is haunted. Various investigators and occupants spend a night searching for the ghost.
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| Tom Walls | ... | Sir Hector Benbow | |
| Ralph Lynn | ... | Ronald Gamble | |
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Mary Brough | ... | Mrs. Todd |
| Robertson Hare | ... | Hook | |
| Claude Hulbert | ... | Lionel Todd | |
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Joan Brierley | ... | Cherry Buck |
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Gordon James | ... | Death |
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Evalyn Bostock | ... | Kitty Stratton |
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Beryl de Querton | ... | Lady Benbow |
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Marjorie Corbett | ... | Warner |
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| Miles Malleson | |||
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Aldwych farce. Acting as legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow sells the titular country house to Mrs Frush - who then complains that it is haunted. Various investigators and occupants spend a night searching for the ghost.
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Rascally Tom - Irreesistible Ralph - Moral Mary Brugh - henpecked Robertson Hare - all back in the greatest comedy ever written by Ben Travers See more »Parents Guide:
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31 October 1932 (UK) See more »Filming Locations:
British and Dominions Studios, Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UKCompany Credits
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Yes, THARK is an exclamation by a person who sees a ghost in this delightfully dippy haunted house comedy...and so you can easily see the risqué joke in the title. Today of course they just bellow F**CK. There were many haunted house comedies of this period generally between versions of the Cat And The Canary and right up to Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein or even Francis in a Haunted House. One of my favorite British scare comedies is The Haunted Lighthouse from about 1934. THARK (say it out loud) borrows also from The Cat Creeps, The Bat Whispers and any other films post 1927 lifted from plays about specters and weird butlers and stormy nights in a mansion, a burglary and perhaps a murder. See also THE PHANTOM OF CRESTWOOD. As far as rude movie titles go, it is a beauty and not bettered until THE AMAZING DR CLITTERHOUSE (clitoris) of the 40s. Hilarious!