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An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
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Steven Morrow
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Joan Medford
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Police Lt. Larry Brooks
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Marcel De Lange
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F. Holmes Harmon
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Hal Ormiston
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Lady of the Streets
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Stella McNally (as Joan Fulton)
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The Creeper
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The Janitor (uncredited)
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Nora - Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
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Mr. Samuels (uncredited)
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Smitty - Typesetter (uncredited)
Terry Mason ...
Clarence - Copy Boy (uncredited)
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Deputy Coroner (uncredited)
Jack Parker ...
Elevator Boy (uncredited)
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Jerry - Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
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Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
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Walter - Printer (uncredited)

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Jean Yarbrough

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George Bricker ... (screenplay)
 
Dwight V. Babcock ... (original story -John Medford is Missing)

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Ben Pivar ... producer (produced by)

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Maury Gertsman ... director of photography

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Philip Cahn

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John B. Goodman
Abraham Grossman

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Russell A. Gausman
Ralph Warrington

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Jack P. Pierce ... makeup director

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Ralph Slosser ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Bernard B. Brown ... director of sound
Robert Pritchard ... sound technician

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Vera West ... gowns
Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

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Hans J. Salter ... musical director (as H.J. Salter)
William Lava ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Paul Sawtell ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Frank Skinner ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Dimitri Tiomkin ... composer: stock music (uncredited)

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Marcel De Lange is a struggling sculptor whose work and sanity are derided by the New York art critics. After waspishly officious critic F. Holmes Harmon ruins a sale for De Lange by dismissing his expressionistic cubist work as "tripe" and later gloating about it in his column, the distraught artist goes to the river to drown himself. There he discovers the half-drowned body of the notorious serial killer, the Creeper, and takes him back to his studio to recover. Feeling empowered by the friendship of the acromegalic sociopath, De Lange tasks him with murdering the critics who have pilloried him in print. When successful commercial artist Steve Morrow is wrongly suspected of the crimes, his art critic girlfriend Joan Medford decides to follow her instinct about a mysterious bust De Lange has suspiciously covered in his studio, and she decides to snoop around. Written by duke1029@aol.com

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Taglines A HORROR FILM SUITABLE ONLY FOR ADULTS (Australian reissue poster-all caps) See more »
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Also Known As
  • Murder Mansion (United States)
  • La mansión del mal (United States, Spanish title)
  • Joan Medford Is Missing (United Kingdom)
  • La mansión del mal (Spain)
  • A Casa dos Horrores (Brazil)
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Trivia Rondo Hatton is the original Monster Without Make-up. He suffered from acromegaly, the disease caused disfigurement to face, spine, hands and feet. Doctors believed what set off this glandular disease in Rondo was exposure to poison gas in World War I. See more »
Goofs After the Creeper kills De Lange and smashes the bust, Joan runs to the studio door and finds it locked. It would have been much more sensible for her to have tried fleeing the studio while De Lange and the Creeper were fighting. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in House of Horrors (1998). See more »
Quotes F. Holmes Harmon: [Hearing someone come in but not turning around] If you're the janitor, come back later. If you're anyone else, there's a window at the end of the hall, jump out of it.
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