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Bookmark this pageThe House in Nightmare Park (1973)
Director: Peter Sykes
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From Time Out Film Guide
Howerd plays a Victorian ham actor invited to an eerie stately home, supposedly to entertain. In reality it's a question of inheritance (he's the long-lost heir, and this is The Cat and the Canary all over again). Sykes directs in his best high romantic style (the opening is brilliant) and Howerd restrains himself sufficiently; but though some gags work, towards half time the strain begins to tell and it all falls apart.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Peter Sykes
Producer: Clive Exton, Terry Nation
Cast: Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith, John Bennett, Rosalie Crutchley, Ruth Dunning full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 95 mins
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