The Horror!? 45: Crimes at the Dark House (1940)

Another Tod Slaughter vehicle, with even more atrociously theatrical acting by just about everyone in the cast. I'll take the woodenness of many Hollywood Poverty Row actors over this gathering of bombastic hacks any day. At least the Americans knew that there is a difference between acting for film and acting for theatre. Not that the screaming and mugging found here (the true crimes at the dark house) would be more tolerable on stage.
As there is nothing else about this movie worth talking about, I'll let the curtain drop.