The Black Abbot

The Black Abbot

5.3 / 1019340h 56m

Synopsis

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

Genre: Thriller, Mystery

Status: Released

Director: George A. Cooper

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Main Cast

John Stuart

John Stuart

Frank Brooks

Judy Kelly

Judy Kelly

Sylvia Hillcrest

Edgar Norfolk

Brian Heslewood

Richard Cooper

Richard Cooper

Lord Jerry Pilkdown

Drusilla Wills

Drusilla Wills

Mary Hillcrist

Farren Soutar

John Hillcrist

Cyril Smith

Cyril Smith

Alf Higgins

Earl Grey

Phillips, the butler

Ben Welden

Ben Welden

Charlie Marsh

John Turnbull

John Turnbull

Inspector Lockwood

User Reviews

CinemaSerf

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.