Summaries

An insurance salesman arrives at a creepy mansion to discover his potential eccentric millionaire client already dead. Instead he gets embroiled in a house full of greedy, murderous relatives competing for the inheritance.

Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Cyrus J. Rutherford estate to sell the millionaire some life insurance. Rutherford is already dead and his heirs have gathered at the mansion to hear the reading of the will. Rutherford's will won't be read until he is properly entombed and the heirs are forced to stay on the premises or be denied their inheritance. Tuttle soon finds himself mixed up in shenanigans involving Rutherford's niece, secret passages, a missing body and murder.—Ray Hamel

Details

Keywords
  • murder
  • coffee
  • last will and testament
  • old dark house
  • rat poison
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Mystery
  • Horror
Release date Nov 26, 1944
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Fine Arts Studios - 4516 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production companies Pine-Thomas Productions

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 15m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

Synopsis

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