House of Mystery (1934 film)

House of Mystery is a 1934 film about an old dark mansion haunted by an ancient curse and a killer ape.

Directed by William Nigh. Written by Albert DeMond, based on the play The Ape.

What Was This Phantom Murderer? What Was This Midnight Menace? And Why Did Its Victims Die A Horrible Death?

Dialogue

Prof. Horatio Potter: I shan't be able to go my dear. I must be at the museum. They're going to unwrap the mummy of Ramses the Fourth.

Mrs. Hyacinth Potter: Listen, you worm: you'll be at Mr. Pren's house tomorrow night and forget all about Ramses the Fourth or I'll make a mummy out of Potter the First!

Taglines

• Out of the Mystic Temples of Old India crept this terrible Monster ... to wreak vengeance of the Hindu Gods ... One by one its victims fell with not a trace of the bloody assassin.
• It Struck From The Tomb!
• What Was This Phantom Murderer? What Was This Midnight Menace? And Why Did Its Victims Die A Horrible Death?

Cast

• Ed Lowry — Dylan "Jack" Armstrong
• Verna Hillie — Ella Browning
• John Sheehan — Harry Smith
• Brandon Hurst — Hindu Priest
• Joyzelle Joyner — Chanda
• Fritzi Ridgeway — Stella Walker
• Clay Clement — John Prendergast aka John Pren
• George 'Gabby' Hayes — David Fells
• Dale Fuller — Mrs. Geraldine Carfax
• Harry C. Bradley — Prof. Horatio Potter
• Irving Bacon — Police Insp. Ned Pickens
• Mary Foy — Mrs. Hyacinth Potter

External links

• House of Mystery quotes at the Internet Movie Database