One Frightened Night (1935)

★★★★★ · Good movie, funny mystery · cabootee · 2009-09-14

I like this movie. It was hard to see though most of it took place in the near dark. The night was stormy and the house was dark. Relatives gathered to get money from their rich relative who was still alive. I did not understand that the house had electricity but the people used candles in several of the scenes. Anyway is was funny, the magician added lots of humor to the part.

★★★★★ · A fun mystery! · babe917 · 2009-12-31

this movie was a blast :) i love movies like this!! put a bunch of people in an old house, greed turns to murder, then the who done it fun mystery begins!! a fun old mystery movie 2 check out! oh & thank you billbarstad for the movie recommendations! :)

★★★★ · Grandpa knows best. · picfixer · 2010-02-08

Once you get past the title's questionable grammar, you'll find this to be an entertaining old-dark-house who-done-it with an emphasis on humor. The fun starts when two girls show up in the middle of a thunderstorm (of course) claiming to be a cantankerous old millionaire's long-lost granddaughter. The plot works. The wisecracks are fun. This B-feature has a solid ensemble cast of A-feature character actors that includes Charley Grapewin as the millionaire. Regis Toomey appears in one of his leading man roles. Save this one for a dark and stormy night. Then turn the lights down, cuddle up…

★★★ · Great fun · Big Boomer · 2017-11-06

Watching Hedda Hopper at the end of her acting career and just before her gossip column career was fun. She made far more money blackmailing stars to keep their sordid secrets out of print than she did in over 20 years of acting. Here she plays one of her stock characters, that of a society matron. Thoroughly entertaining romp even though many of the night scenes were too dark to be properly viewed.

★★★ · A Fun Little Film · Poohbah70 · 2019-06-01

Worth the 66 minutes to watch this nice little mystery - not a great film, but a decent plot and entertaining progression. Charley Grapewin is fine, as are Hedda Hopper and Arthur Hohl. The rest of the cast are Ok - if you can stand the typical wiseguy character favored for/by Wallace Ford - I can't - under what stone did Hollywood find him? He is strictly an acquired taste - would have made a fine fourth Ritz Brother.

★★★ · A surprisingly impressive cast · Victor Von Psychotron · 2019-09-29

Many people in this film had long careers in TV and movies. Regis Toomey alone had many starring roles and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hedda Hopper became a famous Hollywood gossip columnist who was close friends with Joseph McCarthy. Charles Grapewin played Inspector Queen in seven different "Ellery Queen" mystery films, and Wallace Ford was all over TV throughout the 50's and 60's.