Richard Greene

Boris Karloff

Stephen McNally

Rita Corday

Lon Chaney Jr.

John Hoyt

Michael Pate

Nancy Valentine

Tudor Owen

Henry Corden

Otto Waldis

Roy Engel

Leslie Denison

Bernard Szold

Jack Perrin

Forrest Burns

Chuck Hamilton

John Roy

Victor Romito

Nathan Juran

William Alland

Jerry Sackheim

Alfred Sweeney

Paul Sawtell

Frank Skinner

Milton Rosen

Russell A. Gausman

Hans J. Salter

Paul Dessau

Oliver Emert

William Lava

Joseph Gershenson

Charles Previn

Joan St. Oegger

Bud Westmore

Irving Glassberg

Russell F. Schoengarth

Bernard Herzbrun

Ray Romero

David S. Horsley

Leslie I. Carey

Joe Lapis

William Holland

Mystery

Horror

The Black Castle

Universal International Pictures

Universal Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Richard Greene is "Richard Beckett" who arrives at the aptly named castle of eye-patch wearing Austrian count "von Bruno" (a suitably hammy Stephen McNally) to find out what has happened to two of his friends who have gone missing. Once there, he finds himself involved in some intrigues with his host - and his glamorous wife "Elga" (Rita Corday) that pits the two in a battle of wits and for survival. Lon Chaney Jr. features as the count's rather dim-witted henchman "Gargon" and there a few scene-stealing appearances from Boris Karloff as "Dr. Meissen", the well meaning castle physician. Don't expect a horror film, aside from a pool full of hungry of alligators and some medieval instruments of torture, there isn't any - this is just a straight historical drama/romance that pitches good against evil with some sword fighting, good old fashioned treachery and a damsel, frequently, in distress. It isn't Nathan Juran's best - but it's a perfectly competent little adventure yarn to while away 80 minutes.

English

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