Night Monster (1942)
What kind of a thing is it?!
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
- Date of release
- 1942-10-23
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (41)
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Director
- Ford Beebe
Casting
- Bela Lugosi — Rolf
- Lionel Atwill — Dr. King
- Leif Erickson — Laurie
- Irene Hervey — Dr. Lynne Harper
- Ralph Morgan — Kurt Ingston
- Don Porter — Dick Baldwin
- Nils Asther — Agor Singh
- Fay Helm — Margaret Ingston
- Frank Reicher — Dr. Timmons
- Doris Lloyd — Sarah Judd
- Francis Pierlot — Dr. Phipps
- Robert Homans — Captain "Cap" Beggs
Interesting facts
Night Monster is a 1942 American black-and-white horror film featuring Bela Lugosi and produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Company. The movie uses an original story and screenplay by Clarence Upson Young and was produced and directed by Ford Beebe. For box office value, star billing was given to Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, but the lead roles were played by Ralph Morgan, Irene Hervey and Don Porter, with Atwill in a character role as a pompous doctor who becomes a victim to the title character, and Lugosi in a small part as a butler.
Production
The working title for the film was 'House of Mystery'. Production started on July 6, 1942, and ended at the end of the same month.
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