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With: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane, Elaine Edwards, Darla Hood, John Bryant, Harvey Stephens, Mike Steele, Riza Royce, Robert B. Williams
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Written by: Crane Wilbur, based on a novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart and on a play by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood
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Directed by: Crane Wilbur
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Running Time: 80
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Date: 08/09/1959
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Guano
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
The Film Detective offers a newly restored Blu-ray release of this Vincent Price film, which fell into the public domain. Unfortunately, the movie is extremely talky and stagy, and it has a flat, scrubbed look, evenly-lit and little use of shadows or contrast. Even though it's a murder story, it's pretty dull. Price plays a scientist who murders an embezzling banker and takes the stolen money for himself. Agnes Moorehead plays a mystery novelist, Cornelia Van Gorder. And a killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose, while various suspects come and go. The movie features twenty-eight year old Darla Hood, who was better known as young "Darla" on in the Our Gang/Little Rascals comedy shorts. On the new 2022 Blu-ray, film scholar Jason A. Ney provides a liner notes essay and a commentary track. Other bonuses include a featurette on director Crane Wilbur, and several Vincent Price radio plays.
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