Directed by:
Ford BeebeScreenplay:
Clarence Upson YoungCinematography:
Charles Van EngerCast:
Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, Irene Hervey, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Nils Asther, Fay Helm, Frank Reicher, Doris Lloyd, Robert Homans, Janet Shaw (more)Plots(1)
Night Monster is horrific tale filled with strange characters, secret passages, dark storms and a murderer who has mastered the art of “mind over matter”. Kurt Ingston (Ralph Morgan) is a helpless cripple due to the incompetence of three doctors (Lionel Atwill, Frank Reicher, Francis Pierlot). He invites them to visit him at his estate on the pretext of donating money to medicine. One by one, the doctors are mysteriously murdered. The spooky mansion is filled with strange characters, any one of whom could be the killer. There is the ominous butler (Bela Lugosi), the grim housekeeper (Doris Lloyd), the lecherous chauffeur (Leif Erickson), a mystic (Nils Asther) and Ingston’s demented sister (Fay Helm). Trying to solve the murders - and stay alive - are a psychiatrist (Irene Hervey) and a mystery writer (Don Porter). (Universal Pictures UK)
(more)Cast
Bela Lugosi
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Ninotchka (1939)
The Phantom Creeps (1949) (TV movie) - a.f.
Lionel Atwill
UK
Best movies:
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Captain Blood (1935)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Leif Erickson
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Irene Hervey
USA
Best movies:
Cactus Flower (1969)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Ralph Morgan
USA
Best movies:
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Don Porter
USA
Best movies:
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Who Done It? (1942)
Night Monster (1942)
Nils Asther
Denmark
Best movies:
Samson and Delilah (1949)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Night Monster (1942)
Fay Helm
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
Dark Victory (1939)
Frank Reicher
German Empire
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Doris Lloyd
UK
Best movies:
The Sound of Music (1965)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
To Each His Own (1946)
Robert Homans
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
It Started with Eve (1941)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Janet Shaw
USA
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Jezebel (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Eddy Waller
USA
Best movies:
Woman on the Run (1950)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
Cyril Delevanti
UK
Best movies:
Limelight (1952)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Francis Pierlot
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Edge of Darkness (1943)