this movie sucks

Watching Retroflix is my favorite way to unwind

Rondo Hatton.great. actor.sorry i do.t spell.good .

For those interested, the other episodes of The Halls of Ivy still exist. The original 35mm negative reels are at the ITV archive. Unfortunately, they have not been digitised, so I suppose the only way they'll become accessible is if someone purchases the physical copies and takes steps to digitise them and make the episodes publicly available. It doesn't look like ITV will do anything with them themselves.

I been watching alot of movies lately from zombies to Dracula and black and white movies and one thing you could always count on women are useless and they can’t be trusted.

Why in those days people always got into the passenger side to drive the car?

Thank you 👍Always good to watch the great and talented Ronald Colman . 😃 Jan . 11 , 2025

"The worst sequence of film in cinema's history"... You haven't been to the movies in the last 25 years, right...?

Just noticed that Paul Fix aka Micah (the Sheriff from "The Rifleman" is in this. Character is "Kane"

I am in awe of that beautiful handwriting that appers on the paper as a narration.

💙 Thanks 💙

I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that it was approved with certificate #6067.🙄

Still no opening credits.

The TV version perfectly captures my imagined view of Ivy from the radio program. It was a great favorite of my parents. Sadly, too many colleges and universities have strayed so far from this ideal that I see no connection with them anymore. One rare exception is Hillsdale College in rural southern Michigan.

I see Doc from Gunsmoke plays on this. Very good movie. I enjoy to old movies better that what we have now. I always though that even the B movies have better actors in many movies from the past.

Damn I just realized she's faking being blind. lol I don't know why I didn't realize that whenever the butler was signing to her. Hahahahaa I missed that one. WOW! It's probably due to the fact that in real life she wasn't blind. I was just thinking that she was doing a good job of acting like she was for her character and then it hit that the butler spoke in sign language to her. A blind person having a mute butler is a bit strange to begin with. There's a huge communication barrier as the mute can't tell the blind person they understood something or even have a conversation at all with them it is all one way unless there is some sort of sophisticated way of conversing. I bet the interview for the position would be pretty weird. So tell me about yourself? Silence.... Erm... So what makes you believe you are right for the job? Silence...Do you have any questions for me? Silence... Ok you are hired welcome aboard. You start on Monday does that work for you? Silence... Great see you at 9am. Fu*king priceless.

I have never seen a movie where Rondo ever speaks. I realize that it adds to his menace but his voice couldn't have been that terrible. I picture his voice as being very deep and booming. I honestly thought he was English considering him appearing in Sherlock Holmes and what with Gale's English accent. Sad that his disease that disfigured him was caused due to being exposed to poison gas in WWI. He also fought in the Mexican border war too. In another bit of trivia about him he also had metal cheek bones due to his own having to be removed due to the disease he suffered from which is called acromegaly a disease that causes asymmetrical bone growth. A disease of the pituitary gland which also causes gigantism. Both diseases start after a person has matured into adulthood and from a tumor that has grown on the gland.

Fun old creepy movie. I always enjoy Sondergaard. Anyone else notice the magic bedroom door? Sometimes it opens into the bedroom and sometime it slides into a pocket in the wall.

Way to pick the most frightening butler ever to have lived. Both the blind woman and the butler starred in Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies. The butler as The Creeper in The Pearl Of Death and the woman in this movie coincidentally that movie was called Sherlock Holmes and The Spider Woman. She played Aidria Spedding. Both were villains. And maybe it's not a coincidence if the title of this movie is anything to go by. I'm only at the point where the butler and the spider woman (i assume it's her) are first introduced into the movie. Anyway on with the show. My GF would have killed me had I paused a movie to write a comment. lol

always loved boris karloff

Karloff and Lugosi's was a great malt shop off Broadway in the 50's. Best chocolate frappes

I'm scared

I am not too much into mad scientist movies. I like haunted house, old castles with fog and ghosts more. But it was okay. Boris Karloff war really a good looking man.

I've been listening to the radio show for about 8 months. What a lovely adaption. I hope more episodes are found soon.

I. Like. The. Story. Line. +. Boris. Kalof playing. The. Part. Of. The. Doctor oldis. But. Goodis

But why is she called the spider woman? 😂😂

Good old movie, from way back when my parents were 10 years old; a bit disappointing in that Boris and Bela did not have a scene together - I fully expected them to have many scenes together, why else make a movie with Karloff and Lugosi as top billing?

Wonderful movie. A basic plot but at just under an hour it works.

32:20

When Boris Karloff and Bela Lagosi are together you know it wupilk be a good movie!

good movie

This movie could do with a Remake. However only if they're faithful, we don't need it turned into an action movie. Just the scifi mystery that it is.

Unfortunately, the music is too loud; I can’t hear the dialogues entirely. Switching off to another movie.

There are B movies for sure.. Then there are these FAR LESSER outputs.. I can only guess someone had the money to FORCE THESE out.

background music is OVER-bearing. Incapable of hearing characters.

.......then those Whos would start singing!

I just watched this on Svengoolie tonight. The ending is sad. Hopefully Margaret and the daughter split the money

I love interesting flowers, too. But, uh....

My Favorite Genre. ❤

Fascinating film with two favourite Cult Fav actresses...Ive always liked Gale from the time first time I screened The Letter (40) over 4 decades ago now. Such an elegant and majestic woman, made perfect for Villainess roles...and what a voice. A shame she didnt get a crack at being "Dracula's Daughter" or some kind of Vampira role. Of course, I remember Brenda as one of the later "Janes" to grace RKO Tarzan movies. For a low-budget B movie, Universal really knew how to pack in the creepy Atmosphere....wonderful lighting and shadows and camera angels. Though predictable, still Love the conflagrant Rebecca (40) - type ending. Surprised to read the "hater" comments-----Just like The Corpse Vanishes (42) was meant for "kiddie matinee" audiences----so suspend your imagination and expectations and there probably arent many "Clean" Prints out there.

Also my first encounter with Sondrgaard was when she played an asian woman betrayed by her love with Betty Davis. She was georgious and sinister. But I loved her. Wanted to be her.

Shadows and light in old films create the mood. Digital efx is a powerful tool which will make or break modern movies

I wonder if gale sondergaard was the inspiration for the space ghost villainess...black widow?

reminds me of Little Shop of Horrors.... FEED ME!!!

A very awesome performance of memorable movies like these an excellent cast of good n gorgeous actors /z tresses thanks somuch for sharing them in 2024 😮😮😮😮😅😊😊😊

The opening music is taken from ",Son of Dracula"

Top movie thank you ❤❤❤❤❤

Gale Sondegard burns up AGAIN.

The music is so loud you can hardly hear what they say.

Why this does not even amount to a kind of cannabilism. No adreno chromism.