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(1929, MGM) Roland Young, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead, Claude Fleming, Boris Karloff, John Miljan, Lionel Belmore, Polly Moran, Sōjin Kamiyama. This early old dark house chiller has a lot of atmospheric moments. Young is assaulted on a fog-cloaked London street but manages to escape death. But when it’s discovered that several other murder victims that evening were members of his WW1 army regiment, he and a Scotland Yard inspector decide to call in the surviving members of his regiment to his mist-shrouded manor, which is supposedly haunted by “the Green Ghost.” Before long members of the regiment arrive and begin dropping like flies—all strangled. Who is the killer? A ghost, or something more human? In desperation, a sinister Oriental medium is called in to raise the ghosts of the murdered men so they can expose the identity of their killer. The climatic séance scene is wonderfully chilling. Miljan is good in a small role as the horribly scarred Colonel Mallory. Karloff has a much bigger part than one would expect from an uncredited role. From a nice 16mm original print.
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