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The Haunted House
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1hr 10min
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1940
Distributor:
Alpha Video
Synopsis: In the late 1930s-early 1940s, Monogram Pictures hoped to create a popular screen team in the form of teenaged thespians Jackie Moran (he was Huck Finn in Selznick's 1938 version of Tom Sawyer) and Marcia Mae Jones (a former child star who'd been in pictures since the silent days). In The Haunted House, Jackie plays a newsboy, while Marcia is cast as the niece of the paper's publisher. There's a killer loose in town, and both police and reporters are baffled. Jackie and Marcia join forces to catch ... Full Synopsis
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Five minutes into Monogram's exceedingly sluggish Haunted House and many viewers will suddenly look more kindly towards Warner Bros.' concurrent Nancy Drew whodunits. At least Nancy (Bonita Granville) and Ted Nickerson (Frankie Thomas) had spunk; by contrast, Marcia Mae Jones, a former child actress who always seemed to be on the verge of tears, and erstwhile "Huckleberry Finn," Jackie Moran are insipid ... Full Review
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