Directed by:
Lew LandersScreenplay:
Paul GangelinCinematography:
Henry FreulichCast:
Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Maxie Rosenbloom, Larry Parks, Jeff Donnell, Don Beddoe, Frank Puglia, Frank Sully, George McKay, Patrick McVey, Frank Mitchell (more)Plots(1)
Winnie Slade, a young divorcee, buys an old historic house from nutty Professor Billings (Boris Karloff), who lives there with his daffy housekeeper and bizarre neighbors, in order to convert it into a hotel. She allows them to continue to live on the property - unaware that the Professor continues to experiment unsuccessfully on traveling salesmen, the bodies of whom have filled the cellar. They are joined by a variety of eccentric characters including a quack doctor who doubles as the town's sheriff, Winnie's frenetic ex-husband, an oddball choreographer, a punchdrunk traveling salesman, and a lunatic escapee from the Italian army. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Boris Karloff
UK
Best movies:
The General (1926)
Scarface (1932)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Peter Lorre
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
M (1931)
Casablanca (1942)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Maxie Rosenbloom
USA
Best movies:
Follow the Boys (1944)
The Bellboy (1960)
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Larry Parks
USA
Best movies:
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Freud (1962)
You Belong to Me (1941)
Jeff Donnell
USA
Best movies:
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Don Beddoe
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Caged (1950)
Frank Puglia
Italy
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Casablanca (1942)
Frank Sully
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Captains Courageous (1937)
George McKay
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Going My Way (1944)
The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Patrick McVey
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Dark Passage (1947)
Frank Mitchell
USA
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Kid Brother (1927)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Robert Emmett Keane
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Uncertain Glory (1944)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Maude Eburne
Canada
Best movies:
Vivacious Lady (1938)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
The Suspect (1944)