The Black Abbot (1934)
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
- George A. Cooper
- Fred V. Merrick
- Philip Godfrey
- Terence Egan
Rating: 5.3/10 by 3 users
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United Kingdom
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Runtime: 00 hour 56 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: treasure, hidden room
John Stuart doesn't really have much to do in this rather routine, gently comedic, haunted house mystery. His "Brooks" character finds himself trying to identify a phantom that inhabits an old monastery and who has an habit of terrifying - or worse - the other occupants. Those range from the upper class nitwits to the loved-up servants - and he has to get a move on before there is no-one left to help discover who's up to all of this mischief and why? It's all a bit too verbal, and at just under the hour, there is still quite a fair degree of padding too. It's still watchable enough if you like an early example of a British-made thriller that uses the gloominess of the scenario and a minimum of wattage to help present the thinnest of stories in quite an eerie style.
