The Girl Who Dared (1944)
0h 56m | PG-13
A group of people are invited to a party at a creepy mansion where legend has it a ghost appears once a year.
Director: Howard Bretherton
Studio: Republic Pictures
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Romance
Video: 720p
Cast
Lorna Gray
as Ann Carroll
Peter Cookson
as Rufus Blair
Grant Withers
as Homer Norton
Veda Ann Borg
as Cynthia Harrison / Sylvia Scott
John Hamilton
as Beau Richmond
Willie Best
as Woodrow
Reviews
"Beau" (John Hamilton) and "Chattie" (Vivien Oakland) invite a rather eclectic mix of folks to join them for a party at their remote island home. Or do they? The arrival of their guests proves quite bemusing as they didn't actually ask anyone! Who has lured these people here and why? Well body number one arrives shortly afterwards (then disappears) and as others soon start to mount up, we have a mystery that it falls to mechanic "Blair" (Peter Cookson) and the suspicious "Ann" (Lorna Gray) to try and solve before they, too, go the way of the dodo at the hands of the famed ghost of this ramshackle pile. It's not very often we see a geiger counter feature in a murder mystery, but armed with it's glowing light and a bit of light-heartedness, we race through an hour amiably. Nobody will take any acting or writing plaudits from this, but as a standard Saturday afternoon feature, it does fine and probably have inspired countless editions of "Scooby Do"!