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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 265050" data-attributes="member: 23">The Old Dark House (1932)

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With its long shadows by candlelight and thunderstorms accompanied by torrential downpours, it delivers on the moody gothic atmosphere promised in the gorgeous poster.

The pace is very leisurely indeed (I couldn&#039;t help thinking of [USER=22]@James from London[/USER] describing how nothing ever happens in early Emmerdale Farm, and wondered if this is similar to the viewing experience I&#039;ll have whenever I get round to watching it). All the same, it&#039;s plainly a daring film for its time, what with a showgirl dumping the rich daddy who&#039;s keeping her once she finds another sucker (she elicits a marriage proposal overnight, which would be artful if he wasn&#039;t so gullibly easy).

If Kenneth Williams didn&#039;t base Carry On Screaming&#039;s Dr Watt on Ernest Thesiger in this film I&#039;ll be amazed. The resemblance is uncanny.

Charles Laughton&#039;s refreshingly natural Yorkshire accent aside, most visitors to the house provide an interesting study in mid-Atlantic accents. With it being set in Wales (somewhere I tend to assume most Americans think is a borough of Greater London), I spent the entire film assuming they were Brits doing switched up vowel sounds and t flapping (à la Prince &quot;securidy&quot; Harry) in order to be understood across the pond. Turns out the ones that grabbed my attention were Americans using British accents.

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[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 265050, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]The Old Dark House[/SIZE][/B] (1932) [IMG width="505px"]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/The_Old_Dark_House_%281932_poster%29.jpeg[/IMG] With its long shadows by candlelight and thunderstorms accompanied by torrential downpours, it delivers on the moody gothic atmosphere promised in the gorgeous poster. The pace is very leisurely indeed (I couldn't help thinking of [USER=22]@James from London[/USER] describing how nothing ever happens in early [I]Emmerdale Farm[/I], and wondered if this is similar to the viewing experience I'll have whenever I get round to watching it). All the same, it's plainly a daring film for its time, what with a showgirl dumping the rich daddy who's keeping her once she finds another sucker (she elicits a marriage proposal overnight, which would be artful if he wasn't so gullibly easy). If Kenneth Williams didn't base[I] Carry On Screaming's [/I]Dr Watt on Ernest Thesiger in this film I'll be amazed. The resemblance is uncanny. Charles Laughton's refreshingly natural Yorkshire accent aside, most visitors to the house provide an interesting study in mid-Atlantic accents. With it being set in Wales (somewhere I tend to assume most Americans think is a borough of Greater London), I spent the entire film assuming they were Brits doing switched up vowel sounds and t flapping (à la Prince "securidy" Harry) in order to be understood across the pond. Turns out the ones that grabbed my attention were Americans using British accents. [MEDIA=youtube]9v7nxPW04d0[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]HMC8wj8heus[/MEDIA][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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