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Five features. In ' House On Haunted Hill' a millionaire invites five friends to join him in a haunted house party. The guests are offered ten thousand dollars to spend the night. Now everyone is just looking to get out alive in the morning. Also features 'The Hitchhiker', 'The Bat', 'Zombie' and 'The Terror'. Read more

Starring	Edmund O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, Jose Torvay
Director	Ida Lupino
Genres	Drama

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- Although made in the same year as Lupino's impressive weepie The Bigamist, this inhabits a totally different universe.... read more on Time Out
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  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:18
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  interesting film
  
  This film was not exactly what I had anticipated as it presents as a 1950/60's black and white drama of a true event in american newsheadlines at the time. ... read more »
  
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  If you like thrillers then get on board
  
  Came across this on The Story of Film series, a lot of thrillers and film noirs were written by women at this time but this was the only one directed by a women... read more »
  
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  Fairly run of the mill
  
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  You guys are really dumb.
  
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  This film has been mislabelled, this has got to be one of those movies that you must avoid. Even after reading the films synopsis i was still unaware that this ... read more »
  
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  interesting film
  
  This film was not exactly what I had anticipated as it presents as a 1950/60's black and white drama of a true event in american newsheadlines at the time. ... read more »
  
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  interesting film
  
  This film was not exactly what I had anticipated as it presents as a 1950/60's black and white drama of a true event in american newsheadlines at the time. ... read more »
  
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  - 19 Aug 2005 at 16:27
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  Not worth 1 star !
  
  This film has been mislabelled, this has got to be one of those movies that you must avoid. Even after reading the films synopsis i was still unaware that this ... read more »
  
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  Not what I expected
  
  Black and White and not good action.
  
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  You guys are really dumb.
  
  Brixton born Ida Lupino directs this tough thriller, quite a ... read more »
  
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- - ChesterDent
  - 121 reviews
  - London
  - 18 Oct 2006 at 15:26
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  Solid but one one-paced thriller
  
  Noirish story of a kidnapping by a hitch-hiking murderer that fails to generate any real heat. The bad guy is fairly convincing and scary enough but there ... read more »
  
  Report this review
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  - London
  - 19 Feb 2008 at 12:35
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  Fairly run of the mill
  
  A thriller with a predictable outcome, which seemed to have been shortened at the end. A warning that this film is not the one featured in the trailer, which in... read more »
  
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- - Cato
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  - Lydbury North
  - 06 Nov 2010 at 09:13
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  If you like thrillers then get on board
  
  Came across this on The Story of Film series, a lot of thrillers and film noirs were written by women at this time but this was the only one directed by a women... read more »
  
  Report this review
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  - 573 reviews
  - North of Reading
  - 09 Oct 2011 at 20:42

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  Five features. In ' House On Haunted Hill' a millionaire invites five friends to join him in a haunted house party. The guests are offered ten thousand dollars to spend the night. Now everyone is just looking to get out alive in the morning. Also features 'The Hitchhiker', 'The Bat', 'Zombie' and '...