Sh! The Octopus (1937)
Genre: Comedy / Mystery
Duration: 54 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: William C. McGann
Starst: Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins and Marcia Ralston
IMDb score:
5,5 (744)
Releasedate: 14 December 1937
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Sh! The Octopus plot
"IT'S WEIRD! WACKY! WONDERFOOL!"
Detectives Kelly and Dempsey team up on a mysterious case involving a criminal named Octopus and a deadly beast that bears the same name. They track them down, only to find themselves trapped in an abandoned lighthouse along with a group of strangers. Outside, both 'octopuses' lie in wait to terrorize them.
Actors and actresses
Kelly
Dempsey
Vesta Vernoff
Paul Morgan
Capt. Hook
Captain Cobb (as Brandon Tyman)
David Dow Harriman
Polly Crane
Nanny
Reviews & comments
Ebenezer Scrooge
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- 2150 messages
- 3092 votes
Farcical film in a lighthouse, shot in one room except for a few scenes. Slapstick-like situations, old cartoon music underneath, comical facial expressions à la Piet Bambergen... Women who keep screaming deafeningly, for example when the light suddenly goes out.
You wonder what all those people are doing there, in the middle of the sea.
Yet there is a memorable transformation in this less than an hour long film, which is why I set up the film. A character who changes from an old woman to a demonic witch in a split second , including high witch laughter.
Very well done. Mind you: 1937!
Remarkably enough, they do this with a color filter that they slide in front of the lens. I understood from another video.
When visual effects were still a bit like magic.
Apparently a cult film now. But without that transformation, I don't think it would have mattered.
Can be seen on YouTube.
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