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Not only is there an Feeble Dismal HOUSE, there’s also a unlit and stormy night outside said house, a heavy rain that causes mud slides and has turned the roads into quagmires. It’s so unpleasant that travelers Roger Penderel (Melvyn Douglas) and Philip and Margaret Waverton (Raymond Massey and Gloria Stuart) swallow their fears (how would YOU like it if your knock at the door of a scary traditional house was answered by Boris Karloff? ) and look refuge there. They are followed soon enough by portly and high-spirited Sir William Porterhouse (Charles Laughton) and fiery young Gladys DuCane (Lilian Bond) . Nobody in their honest mind would believe spending a night in the spooky frail station unless forced by the sharpest contingency. Nobody in their correct mind, we soon learn, inhabits the house, either. It’s the position of the Femm family, old siblings Horace and Rebecca (Ernest Thesiger and Eva Moore) and a brace of unseen, but not unheard, relatives locked in upper tale rooms. Boris Karloff plays Morgan, a butler or sib (never explained either diagram), who’s scarier than all secure out.
THE Feeble Unlit HOUSE is a alarm movie, of sorts. It doesn’t indulge in splatter-gore or supernatural head-twisting to shock and thrill. Rather, it relies on high shadows and sardonic dialogue, unusual characters and menacing situations. The movie contains no character stranger than Karloff’s Morgan, a hulking peaceful brute glowering from slow a bolshie beard and a few deep and delicately placed scars painted in by Universal make-up genius Jack Pierce. Morgan develops an overarching attraction to fair young Margaret Waverton. Director James Whale makes Margaret undergo the only costume change in the film, a recede that accomplishes a number of things. Undressing down to her swagger, Margaret is at once sexualized and made vulnerable. It gives deaf primitive Rebecca Femm the opportunity to boom lines at once darkly humorous, sardonic, and deeply disturbing. As Gloria Stuart, who recently played the 100-year-old survivor in TITANTIC, tells us on the easy and informal commentary track, Whale wanted her to appear a `flaming dagger’ when Karloff chased her about the murky mansion, hence the pink Jean Harlow-ish silk gown. Rebecca Femm, fondling the gown’s silk, declares “Fair stuff, but it’ll rot.” Touching the young woman’s skin beneath the gown, she says “Finer stuff collected, but it’ll rot, too!” Whale intercuts the scene with images of Margaret and Rebecca and Margaret looking at herself in an broken-down and distorting mirror. It’s a colorful sequence, transcending and enhancing the dread simultaneously.
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THE Stale Unlit HOUSE is filled with bent, dusky comedy and substantial performances. Whale, of course, had earlier directed Karloff in FRANKENSTEIN, and would work yet again with him in a few years on THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Thesiger would join them as the demented Dr. Pretorius. If you’ve seen that movie and enjoyed its singular effect of humor, you’ll bask in THE Conventional Dim HOUSE as well. HOUSE lacks BRIDE’S humanity, there are no expedient monsters in this one, but its comedy is more finely honed and definitely of a darker hue. And the ensemble cast is as great as it gets. I loved this movie.
Included on the Image dvd is Gloria Stuart’s informal and personal commentary, a nine-minute stills gallery (button free, it runs on its hold) and an eight runt interview with director Curtis Harrington, who was a friend of Whale’s and the man most responsible for preserving, and restoring, THE Conventional Murky HOUSE as it lay mouldering in the Universal vaults in the 1960s.
Director James Whale deftly combined dry, sardonic humor with classic fear elements to design the richly fascinating dim comedy “The Primitive Dim House”. By turns darkly witty and genuinely creepy, the film benefits from a razor-sharp script, glum cinematography, and uniformly graceful performances in addition to Whale’s creative directorial flourishes. Simply summarized, the set involves a group of stranded travelers who choose refuge in an isolated Welsh mansion owned by a dangerously eccentric family during a terrific storm; before the night passes, members of the group will encounter alarm, romance and even death as the affirm, wind and rain rage outside.
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Among a illustrious cast that includes such luminaries as Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, and Gloria Stuart, the acting honors are stolen by Ernest Thesiger playing the pinch-faced, hollow-eyed lord of the manor. Thesiger manages the difficult task of being very silly and vaguely menacing at the same time; in his first scene he introduces himself in a sepulchral but prissy tone as, “Femm … Horace Femm”, and the execute is both marvelously comic and discomfortingly shivery. Eva Moore also makes a distinctive impression in the role of Thesiger’s sharp-tongued sister whose begrudging hospitality to her guests does not include “beds … they can’t have beds!” She is particularly ominous as she fingers the fabric of Gloria Stuart’s improper slash evening gown, noting “delicate stuff, but it’ll rot”, and then proceeds to build her hand on the exposed flesh above Stuart’s chest, adding “finer stuff aloof, but it’ll rot too!”
The Kino DVD offers a fine video transfer of this film which was once considered lost. After the film’s negative was discovered moldering in a vault, and then painstakingly restored, a copy was shown a very few times on pay cable TV channels encourage in the early 1990’s; unfortunately, that print was so dim that the movie was virtually unwatchable. The Kino version features correctly balanced difference and a clearer, crisper soundtrack. As far as extras go, there is a astounding photo gallery; excerpts of an interview with Curtis Harrington, a long-time acquaintance of James Whale who initiated the long search for the film’s missing negative; and a commentary by film historian James Curtis. Best of all is a second audio commentary by actress Gloria Stuart who with astronomical intelligence and charm reveals enchanting tidbits about the film’s production, the other cast members, and the shooting of individual scenes, as well as general stories about Hollywood and her contain career.
The 1962 Hammer remake of the same title, directed by William Castle, bears very few similarities with Whale’s production; Castle’s version is almost devoid of fear and emphasizes astronomical comedy which sometimes veers into the realm of slapstick. Both are moving films in their bear ways, but I personally acquire Whale’s modern and heartily recommend that you add it to your home DVD library.
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