Crimes at the Dark House
Crimes at the Dark House ★★★ 1939
In this campy, melodramatic adaptation of Wilkie Collins's novel “The Woman in White,” a man kills his rich wife and puts a disguised mental patient in her place. Later remade using the book's title. 69m/B VHS, DVD . GB Tod Slaughter, Hilary Eaves, Sylvia Marriott, Hay Petrie, Geoffrey Wardwell; D: George King.
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