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Dark and Stormy Night is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Larry Blamire released in USA on 10 october 2009 with Brian Howe
Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
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Add to a movie listDark and Stormy Night is a 2009 independent film spoofing the haunted house and murder mystery films produced by Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. Larry Blamire directed and acted in the film and wrote the screenplay. The film also includes many cast members from Blamire's previous films (such as The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Trail of the Screaming Forehead) The title refers to the often-parodied opening sentence from the novel Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
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On a dark and stormy night in the 1930s, a number of people gather at an isolated country estate to hear the reading of the will of the wealthy Sinas Cavinder, including: wealthy nephew Burling Famish Jr. (Brian Howe) and his wife Pristy (Christine Romeo); Pristy's dim-witted lover Teak Armbruster (Kevin Quinn); big-game hunter Jack Tugdon (Jim Beaver); the foppish Lord Partfine (Andrew Parks); elderly Mrs. Hausenstout (Betty Garrett); kindly Seyton Ethelquake (James Karen); and the fragile Sabasha Fanmoore (Fay Masterson), Cavinder's ward.Actors
Brian Howe
(Burling Famish, Jr.)
Fay Masterson
(Sabasha Fanmoore)
Jim Beaver
(Jack Tugdon)
James Karen
(Seyton Ethelquake)
Daniel Roebuck
(8 O'Clock Farraday)
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