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The Black Abbot

A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.

Top Cast

  • John Stuart

    John Stuart

    Frank Brooks

  • Judy Kelly

    Judy Kelly

    Sylvia Hillcrest

  • Edgar Norfolk

    Edgar Norfolk

    Brian Heslewood

  • Richard Cooper

    Richard Cooper

    Lord Jerry Pilkdown

  • Drusilla Wills

    Drusilla Wills

    Mary Hillcrist

  • Farren Soutar

    Farren Soutar

    John Hillcrist

  • Cyril Smith

    Cyril Smith

    Alf Higgins

  • Earl Grey

    Earl Grey

    Phillips, the butler

  • Ben Welden

    Ben Welden

    Charlie Marsh

Overview

A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.

Rating

6.3 / 10
4 Reviews
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    5 Jul 24, 2023

    John Stuart doesn't really have much to do in this rather routine, gently comedic, haunted house mystery. His "Brooks" character finds himself trying to identify a phantom that inhabits an old monastery and who has an habit of terrifying - or worse - the other occupants. Those range from the upper class nitwits to the loved-up servants - and he has to get a move on before there is no-one left to help discover who's up to all of this mischief and why? It's all a bit too verbal, and at just under the hour, there is still quite a fair degree of padding too. It's still watchable enough if you like an early example of a British-made thriller that uses the gloominess of the scenario and a minimum of wattage to help present the thinnest of stories in quite an eerie style.

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