Crimes at the Dark House

Date: 1940
Director: George King
Production Company: George King Productions

Stars: Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves, Geoffrey Wardwell, Hay Petrie, Margaret Yarde, Rita Grant, David Horne, Elsie Wagstaff, David Keir
Location(s): Hertfordshire

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In order to inherit his estate, a villain murders a gold prospecting British peer and assumes his identity.

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Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

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The melodrama begins in the gold fields of Australia during the year 1850 where a murderous Villain kills Sir Percival Glyde as he sleeps. Likely to be stock footage of an Australian gold mine.

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Assuming Sir Percival's title as the 4th Baronet, the Villain moves into Blackwater Park near London in the hope of claiming the peer's inheritance.

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Killing those who suspect him of being an imposter, the Villain aims to marry the heiress Laurie Fairlie. Aldenham House off Aldenham Road at Elstree in Hertfordshire which appears in a number of productions including 'The Trials of Oscar Wilde', 'Master Spy', 'Kill or Cure', ‘Village of the Damned’ and ‘Invasion Quartet’.