The Black Doll 1938
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- A Crime Club Mystery movie.
A rich but crooked businessman and several other people are murdered in an old, dark, seaside house. A black Mexican voodoo doll is left with each dead body. A detective is called to the house to try to solve the mystery and find the killer.
I enjoy seeing actors whose careers began before I was born. I recognize them all from seeing them in films as I grew up in the fifties through the sixties. This particular movie was very enjoyable. The humor mixed with the serious parts of the story is missing from today's films. Reality is seldom as limited in focus as today's scripts. Thanks for collecting these films.
I like that these old pictures are only an hour or so long. That's about as long as people were afforded a break from the great depression, war, etc., back in the day. Or maybe their attention span was only good for that long according to the movie producers. Escape for an hour.
Look how well people used to dress, three piece suits with pocket handkerchief. When there were standards
Yes such class! 😎 my favorite fashion period 30's & 40's😊
I'm 60 now love these Old Gems more then ever
Absolutely love these old mysteries.❤️❤️❤️
Love these old mysteries! So entertaining and enjoyable! Good movie 🎥!
I love these old mysteries. Thank you.
Thanks for the upload. Brings back memories watching it with my younger sibs when TV was very young. We watched it over and over and over again. Did I say that we liked this movie and were very entertained by it? (Sorry, I couldn't help myself... even at the present age of 81).
I have my favorites that I watch over and over … just like being with an old friend ...
@@katrinakitty52 Yes!!!
Hi Thelma
My mum will be 81 this 4th of July 2021 ,
Im 57 and i LOVE all the old black n white movies , there way better than any films done in years ,
Lots of love to you
Janet from England X
I SO ENJOY THESE OLDIE BUT GOODIES MOVIES, PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING, I WATCHED THEM ALL THE TIME🤗🤗🤗🤗💯💯💯💯
Thank you ❤️
The same with me!
Appreciate you posting this. Thank you.
17:00 when he gets the knife in the back-I think this is the first time that I have seen a movie made before 1970 where a woman does NOT scream when she sees someone murdered, much less her father even though there was no love lost. Merely raises her hand, with a hanky, dramatically to her mouth as though she were stifling a scream. Brave, brave woman. LOL 23:00, standing over the corpse, the BF says to the butler, "Esteban, get me some jelly, talcum powder and a plate." Uhm, WTH? Watch to find out. Great film-made me a subscriber!
That cute little dog either a Cairn terrier or a westie.
Very clear picture and sound. Thank you.
I was pleasantly surprised at how good this movie was!
Awesome classic movie ! Thank you for uploading it 💕 I really enjoyed it ❤
I really enjoy these old classics movies. They’re so very real and not all the sex and killings just pleasant too watch. Thanks so very much for sharing this lovely video. 👍🥰💕
WOW , this channel has a few flicks that I have watched before and want to watch again .... so since your taste is equally as delightful as mine , the proper thing for me to do is to subscribe .... thank you for having these great flicks 👌🏻
A couple of viewers mentioned the main title as being re-used from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. Actually, this is the ORIGINAL main title as composed by Franz Waxman for BRIDE. The "Blind Man's Hut on Fire" portion of the main title was deleted by the music editor (and music from the miniatures sequence inserted) for the final release print of BRIDE. Great to hear Waxman's original complete composition. Also, this is a very nice original print. THE BLACK DOLL was duped and there are a lot of poor 16's around. I have an original and it's nice to see another one! Thanks so much for uploading!
Thanks for the info. I was born in 1938; but, naturally... I actually saw it several years later when early TV was in almost everyone's living room. I was probably 8 or so... all my sibs younger and we LOVED this movie; we watched it every time it played AND, yes... Edgar was one of favs... we would go about imitating him. ALSO, as young as we were... we appreciated and recognized Waxman's music. We loved that too. Thanks for the info. (SRM818, thank you for the upload).
Another good oldie. I really enjoyed this one. Thanks for posting.
Classic who done it. Usually pretty good at figuring these out but was off on this one. Good film!
Love These Old Movies!!
You know, I just got done watching 10 straight horror, crime ,suspense, mystery, thriller, murder mystery do you know what they all have in common ? The rainstorm How can you watch a mystery on the clear good clean night? It's unheard of !👍👍
Cesell Hall any recommendations?
@@triddell watch it in the shower will be a good start 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, really. I'd rather have the cliche'd "dark & stormy night" than a "It was a beautiful, warm, sunny summer day with butterflies frolicking about..." 🤮
You realize you can see their breaths in the rain scenes? That's dedication.
Thank you for your kindness and generation for uploading these great old classics! ❤️🙏🏽🇨🇦
Always liked C. Henry Gordon. His characters were always so coldly villainous that you just had to admire him.
Love Crime Club movies
What a beautiful clear print.
This was fun to watch. Thanks for uploading!
Amazing frying pan at the end......it keeps creating food for everyone........
I agree that the "inept, bumbling sheriff" bit is overdone, but Edgar Kennedy is perfect at it.
WOW ! This one is a real dandy of a great movie, and I Love it !!! Thank you for the opportunity of being able to see it, and enjoy it !!!
That Sheriff is one in a million, with all of his nutsiness, and hard of hearing bellowing at people! Ha ha ha ha ha.
Thanks for the upload. (Such a cute little food stealing dog).
Cuter than Asta! 🐶
A most entertaining little film!! Some great performances and atmosphere too. Thanks for the upload!
What an entertaining who-dun-it! I will agree with several other commenters about the bumbling sheriff portrayal being over played. But this movie was made in the middle of the Great Depression and I can only imagine that this "comedic relief" was a nice change for a lot of people. I am reminded of the great Charlie Chan movies with the wonderful Mantan Moreland playing the chauffeur and the "comedic relief". I wasn't raised in those years; I was born later in 1952 so I don't have the personal Life context of these movies. For me, a little bit of Mantan's comedic relief was plenty for me. Society was different back then than now; we are oh so sophisticated and 'educated' today...LOL..!! I still very much prefer the movies from the 50's and earlier from nearly everything that degenerate holly-wierd spews out today...uugghh..!!
Thank you for uploading
as soon as the bumbling Edgar Kennedy gets into the scene the whole film falls apart.
I agree...terrible "overacting". I blame the director for wanting that behavior to ruin the last half o the movie.
It seems to be a convention for "B" mysteries of the era let their comics play too broadly. Edgar was an old pro capable of more subtle comedy with his "slow burn." Donald Woods turned in a good performance. Max Steiner wasn't given credit for the musical motifs in the score lifted from Bride of Frankenstein. But I enjoyed watching. Thank you for putting this on the Web. There are't enough old movies.
movies like these you wont see today those days are gone I enjoy the old classic movies and still watch them today I very watch any TV today just my old classic movies of yesterday
This is one of many late thirties Universal movies and serials that reused Frank Waxman’s score for “Bride of Frankenstein”. And Stanley Cortez would go on to lens two classics, “Magnificent Ambersons” and “Night of the Hunter”.
And poor little Toto was left out in the rain not to have been heard nor seen ever again...😢
Ikr
I'm afraid toto was in that huge skillet
Nice to compare movies year to year and see the progress.
LOL, this was a good one, some laughs and a good mystery, thanks for the upload
I also loved it when the Sheriff said to the Maid, "Never mind the Pig Lattin !" Ha ha ha ha !
That's a real Belly Laugher !!!
In his 1939 novel "Farewell My Lovely" Raymond Chandler uses the same "pig Latin" expression when addressing the (Red-) Indian who's come to drive him to Jules Amthor's house [ "...cut the pig Latin: I'm no schoolmarm at the snake dances"].
Love this movie one of my favorites I watched it at least 50 times
Very enjoyable movie 🎥 🍿
Check out that awesome toaster on the kitchen table!
Such an outrageous incompetent sheriff. If he's supposed to be comic relief they could have done much better. He's terribly miscast and a detriment to the movie.
cheers appreciated.
Thanks for the upload
I've never seen a mystery denouement by a detective serving dinner before!
"It's the best dinner party I ever listened to." -Nora Charles
Is it merely a coincidence the detective's name was Nick?
Even the gun-under-the-table shot was copied.
As well as the joke "Who do you think did it?" "Rex!" (to get his attention, not to accuse)
I totally agree with the lady's last statement about the bumbling sheriff,whenever cases are to be or in process of solving they are not just andv shut or just a done deal,if they were it would be no need to investigate,no evidence tosearch for no mystery,hmmmm🤔🤔🙃????????!!!!!!!!!😣😏🙄.
“I am Esteban.”
“Never mind the initials!”
🤣🤣🤣
Universal re-working musical scores from earlier Universal Horror classics.
Very nice to watch and thanks for it
Looks good. Especially Lundigan.
I loved the realistic portrayal of the Sheriff in this...NOT!!! Yep, like my wife said, he does Not Belong in this movie. Potentially another great classic completely stepped on, crushed up and spat on with this terribly unrealistic Sheriff portrayal! I think I may make it a personal project to edit "out" the Sheriff scenes somehow?? But thanks anyway for an otherwise wonderful little classic movie mystery.
Disagree he cracked me up
@@shiabutterfly8361NOT everyone does. Read the original comment, please.
Thank you
Luved this movie....could have done without comic relief......!
These old movies would have been better without the "comic relief" characters.
It's been three years since I watched this. Still a good watch, but YT no longer allows ad blockers (which I had three years ago), which are available as browser extensions from Google (which owns both Chrome and YT), and I noticed there were a couple of places where the movie interrupted the ads only after an extended time of several minutes. Seems it was a couple of ads short.
watch on mobile
@@VictoriaAlfredSmythe Thanks, but not quite the same as on a big screen, though. Haven't moved up to a smart TV where I could connect the two...yet.
Any one notice the music during the opening credits is from Frankenstein?
I see upon reading the comments,one person did.
A.B. I noticed. It’s from “The Bride Of Frankenstein.
Yes, first thing I did was wait to see if Franz Waxman got credited (Because BRIDE is my favorite score).
Nice movie but I really do not like making fun of anyone in law enforcement and making him look stupid
Edgar Kennedy flicks a lighted cigarette to the floor in a house!
Yes, and I was shocked to see him do that, and then not apologize, or even pick it up. And not only that, but the homeowner didn't even say one word about it. I sure would have, and I'd have made it loud and clear too!!!
A lot of talk and no scary atmosphere but worst of all was the sheriff who was trying to be a clumsy amusing stooge and was too unfunny to be believable.
Sounds like the movie soundtrack from The Bride Of Frankenstein
what great fun. thanks.
IMDb says: Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
-Les Adams
Good one For! Now we all know Les Adams did it! 😂
Thanks
hay not fare ..you just told me the movie...
The bumbling detective-why did filmmakers ever think this was funny?
I think cuz it is funny, and you'd never expect it.
That was OK 👌 Thanks 🎬🙋🏽
Very clear movie.
thanks for loading
old classic👍
Adorable movie.❤
Awesome movie thanks for sharing
You again Miss ? ... you must have the same taste in movies like me ... 👍
@@rafaelramirez1507 yes I love all the old movie that is the only one Wörth-Fröschwiller looking at
@@HouseScraper folks like you bring out the joy I have in my heart for these old classic films ... God bless you 😊
I see Edgar Kennedy is every bit as competent a cop as he was as Officer Kennedy in the Our Gang comedies. Franz Waxman's Bride of Frankenstein score gets another recycling here, and Nan Grey will be remembered as Lillie, the reluctant model and victim of Dracula's Daughter.
Some of the music over the credits is re-used from Bride of Frankenstein! Universal was always thrifty! 🌎
SPOILERS
Sorry, but just trying to get all this straight in my head...
Nephew Rex needed $200--red herring
Dr. Giddings snuck the doll onto the desk initially how? Hiding in the small room upstairs and using the back stairs to the kitchen.
The doctor knew about the doll because he first met the Roods in Mexico when Rood got an exotic disease.
Dr. Giddings chokes Mallison because he tried too hard to throw suspicion on Mallison, using a knife from his room. Mallison caught him and so had to be killed.
The doctor then killed Nelson Rood because he had the hots for Rood's sis.
He threw the monkey onto the dead body from the second floor and then went out the front door unobserved by using the back stairs to the kitchen, leaving the front door ajar. He runs ahead of daughter Marian Rood so he can attack her in the dark.
The doctor cut the wires to buy time so he could get back home in time to take nephew Rex Leland's phone call for a doctor.
Rex's forged check--red herring
Why kill Marian? To get a larger share of the estate.
In the kitchen, Dr. Giddings insisted the significance of the doll was known by everyone, that it led Mood to the mine. This seems a mistake, since it undermined the distraction the doll provided, and the narrative that Barrows was exacting revenge or Mallison was after a larger share of the partnership.
I couldn’t watch this one because of the bumbling investigator
So disappointed as soon as I saw him because some of the characters were well-acted. Hoped he wouldn't be as cliched as I feared, but he was. Another "old dark house mystery" ruined.
@@SBCBearsYep, that is exactly what I expected as soon I saw him...
Good old movies ? It has the theme song from " Bride of Frankenstein ".
She is dead/ knocked out, how can she keep holding the doll?
sylvia koziarski Crazy glue?
YES!!!!HAHAHA!!! I was wondering the exact same thing!!!💜😂
Post-mortem spasm, a contracture of the fingers, is not uncommon.
This movie was actually starting out okay, then they introduced the wacky police officer and I literally could not continue watching. I found it impossible to watch after he came on the scene.
Precisely, the reason I dropped half way because of him.😊
At the end put "A Universal Release"
Good movie
The uncle has a very interesting face.
"There's a touch of magic, to your cooking. And, there's not an onion, in it". But, they're eating cake😣, @0:08:47. Why bring that, up?? Supposedly, a serious mystery movie, but the comic relief just walked up, onto the porch, @0:24:00😁 (good ol' Edgar). Realistically, Edgar couldn't solve, who ate the banana, with a monkey in the room.
The background music is from the Bride of Frankenstein
Music from the bride of frankstein
I thought I knew that tune.
27:49 There is an indirect mention of Wallis Simpson. lol
All the information about Wallis Simpson being a hermaphrodite has been removed from the internet; Wallis apparently was the star act in a brothel before meeting Eddie.
It's Officer Kennedy. I remember him from Little Rascals and Laurel & Hardy ☺
They don't make dames and cars like that anymore !
Kind of whacky.
Isnt the sherrif the guy from the Will Hay film Hay Hay USA?
Yes, that`s him. Edgar Kennedy started his career as one of the Keystone Kops and was most noted for his "slow burn" when he was frustrated.
Bad end for Woods. Shot by ex wife at trocadero on sunset🙀
nice film.
Enjoyable film despite the preposterous storyline, so-so acting, and poor attempts at comedy. There was just something about it.....
debra bolton different time period.
The sheriff is a boot.
debra bolton
there should not be any comedy attempts in a crime story.
edit the sheriff out.
great bad acting
The ending is poorly written. Don't make sense to me. Did anyone understand it?
Wow!
Why no plot summaries??
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