The Old Dark House

Loosely based on a J.B. Priestley play, an assorted cast find themselves stranded overnight in a sinister Welsh house in this splendidly eccentric comedy. There’s the butler Karloff ("an uncivilized brute... A night like this will set him going and once he’s drunk he’s rather dangerous"), the newly married couple, the damaged war veteran, the northern industrialist, and of course the pyromaniac locked in the attic.