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Thark

Thark

1932Movie⏱️ 1h 19m
ComedyHorror
⭐ 5.7
IMDB Rating
23 votes

Aldwych farce. Acting as legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow sells the titular country house to Mrs Frush - who then complains that it is haunted. Various investigators and occupants spend a night searching for the...

Director
Tom Walls
Writers
N/A
Stars
Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Mary Brough
Release Date
October 31, 1932
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
💬 2
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Tom Walls
Tom Walls
as Sir Hector Benbow
Ralph Lynn
Ralph Lynn
as Ronald Gamble
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Mary Brough
as Mrs. Todd
Robertson Hare
Robertson Hare
as Hook
Claude Hulbert
Claude Hulbert
as Lionel Todd
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Joan Brierley
as Cherry Buck
Gordon James
Gordon James
as Death
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Evalyn Bostock
as Kitty Stratton
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Beryl de Querton
as Lady Benbow
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Marjorie Corbett
as Warner

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
British and Dominions Studios, Elstree, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Production
Herbert Wilcox Productions, British & Dominions Film Corporation

🏷️ Keywords

nighthousebased on play

🎯 Categories

ComedyHorror

⭐ Featured Review

What you might say when you see a ghost
by ptb-8 • 2009-11-21
7/10

"Yes, THARK is an exclamation by a person who sees a ghost in this delightfully dippy haunted house comedy...and so you can easily see the risqué joke in the title. Today of course they just bellow F**CK. There were many haunted house comedies of this period generally between versions of the Cat And The Canary and right up to Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein or even Francis in a Haunted House. One of my favorite British scare comedies is The Haunted Lighthouse from about 1934. THARK (say it out loud) borrows also from The Cat Creeps, The Bat Whispers and any other films post 1927 lifted fr..."

💡 Did You Know?

Beryl de Querton's debut.

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📖 Synopsis

Aldwych farce. Acting as legal guardian of Kitty Stratton, Sir Hector Benbow sells the titular country house to Mrs Frush - who then complains that it is haunted. Various investigators and occupants spend a night searching for the...