This remake of The Old Dark House is a brown comedy almost tan. It's funny and
sometimes you might think you'll see Abbott&Costello pop in. But it ;lacks the
atmosphere pf the 30s original.
Tom Poston over from America shares a London flat with Peter Bull who charges him with bringing an imported American car over to the family estate which kind of resembles where the Baskervilles might have lived. He does so and meets the Femm family, Bull's family and they are one interesting clan.
They are bound to that estate by the will of their ancestor who was a pirate to make sure that no one takes up that particular trade. Now why Bull had been sharing a flat with Poston you have to see the film for.,
William Castle and Hammer films of whom this was a joint project assembled quite a cast of British character players like Robert Morley, Mervyn Johns, and Joyce Grenfell as some of the Femme family. Some of them get dead and Poston might join them as they are convinced he is a long lost American cousin.
Poston does a good job and a cast like this, especially Morley for me is hard to resist. Still this The Old Dark House is a single, not a home run.
Or maybe I should have used a cricket analogy.
Tom Poston over from America shares a London flat with Peter Bull who charges him with bringing an imported American car over to the family estate which kind of resembles where the Baskervilles might have lived. He does so and meets the Femm family, Bull's family and they are one interesting clan.
They are bound to that estate by the will of their ancestor who was a pirate to make sure that no one takes up that particular trade. Now why Bull had been sharing a flat with Poston you have to see the film for.,
William Castle and Hammer films of whom this was a joint project assembled quite a cast of British character players like Robert Morley, Mervyn Johns, and Joyce Grenfell as some of the Femme family. Some of them get dead and Poston might join them as they are convinced he is a long lost American cousin.
Poston does a good job and a cast like this, especially Morley for me is hard to resist. Still this The Old Dark House is a single, not a home run.
Or maybe I should have used a cricket analogy.