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The Ghoul (1933)
Directed
by Roger T. Hayes Hunter
 The
Ghoul is a classic British horror movie starring Boris
Karloff, Ernest
Thesiger, and Cedric Hardwicke. Karloff plays Professor, an
Egyptologist who ives
in a spooky, old house
with only his Scottish butler for company. Morlant is a dying man and
he shares the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians, so in an effort to
cheat death, he has used most of his fortune to buy the Eternal Light—a
stone stolen from an Egyptian temple.
In his final moments,
Morland asks his butler to bandage the stone into the palm of his left
hand. He has had an Egyptian tomb built in his garden and that is where
he will be interred. The bushy eye-browed professor believes that he
will rise from his tomb on the next full moon. When he does he intends
to offer the Eternal Light to the god Anubis. If his offering is
accepted Anubis will grant him the gift of eternal life.
When
the full moon rises, the professor rises with it—from his grave—and, if
he looked bad on his deathbed, he looks worse now. Not only are
his eyebrows having a bad hair day, the rest of him has followed their
example.
Morlant staggers from his tomb and—horror
of horrors—realizes the Eternal Light has been stolen from his
bandaged hand. Filled with rage he lurches into the night, killing
anyone who gets in his way as he searches for the Eternal Light.
There
are one or two twists to this tale and some people are not what they
first appear to be, but The
Ghoul is never going to be
one of my all time favourite horror classics. For Karloff fans though,
it's probably a must-see movie.
Runtime 77 mins
Certificate: PG (UK),
CAST
Boris
Karloff
... Prof. Morlant
Cedric Hardwicke ... Broughton
Ernest
Thesiger
... Laing
Dorothy
Hyson
... Betty Harlon
Anthony Bushell
... Ralph Morlant
Kathleen Harrison ... Kaney
Harold
Huth
... Aga Ben Dragore
D.A. Clarke-Smith ... Mahmoud
Ralph Richardson ...
Nigel Hartley
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