Nach seinem Tod heiratet Arnold trotz seiner Witwe seine Geliebte Karen und hinterlässt Todesfallen, begleitet von Tonbändern und seinem konservierten und artikulierten LeichnamNach seinem Tod heiratet Arnold trotz seiner Witwe seine Geliebte Karen und hinterlässt Todesfallen, begleitet von Tonbändern und seinem konservierten und artikulierten LeichnamNach seinem Tod heiratet Arnold trotz seiner Witwe seine Geliebte Karen und hinterlässt Todesfallen, begleitet von Tonbändern und seinem konservierten und artikulierten Leichnam
- Auszeichnungen
- 1 Nominierung
- Wedding Guest
- (Nicht genannt)
- Lord Arnold Dwellyn
- (Synchronisation)
- (Nicht genannt)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesDirector Georg Fenady and his producer brother Andrew J. Fenady shot this film back-to-back with Der Bucklige vom Horror-Kabinett (1973), with some of the same actors (Elsa Lanchester, Patric Knowles, Shani Wallis, Steven Marlo, Ben Wright, and Leslie Thompson).
- Zitate
Karen: Jocelyn...
Lady Jocelyn Dwellyn: I hope you and your bridegroom, my dead husband, will be very happy together in this medieval mausoleum.
Karen: I can understand your bitterness. If only you'd given Arnold more love and affection.
Lady Jocelyn Dwellyn: You gave him enough "affection" for both of us.
Karen: All he wanted was...
Lady Jocelyn Dwellyn: I know what he wanted. What is your going rate?
Lady Jocelyn Dwellyn: [gasps] Lady Dwellyn! You are mistaken. Arnold and I never, never discussed money.
Lady Jocelyn Dwellyn: What did he do? Just leave it on the mantel each night?
Karen: Ours was a deep and honest love. In fact, I love Arnold so much, I refuse to let even death separate us.
Lady Jocelyn Dwellyn: Rubbish! You won't get away with it, you know. It's quite illegal to marry a corpse.
Karen: Mr Whitehead thinks he can prove our marriage valid. He intends to establish a precedent, using the analogy of women who marry soldiers at the front by proxy; men who might already have died in battle before the wedding ceremony was performed.
Lady Jocelyn Dwellyn: The Courts will award me the entire estate. I am the rightful heir. Arnold's one and only wife. And widow. Happy honeymoon, you bitch!
[exits]
- VerbindungenFeatured in Cinemacabre TV Trailers (1993)
I managed to see the piece with my fiance last weekend on television as part of a run of 'bad movies'. We intended to go out to a show that night, but ended up caught up in the funny weirdness of the story, the sets, the acting, the whole mess, and couldn't leave. Each time we planned to get up to go, we remained seated, glued to the set, in awe of the bizzare feature. It was like some sort of perverse Estragon and Vladimir situation.
And if that isn't a recommendation, I don't know what is.
It's certainly no classic. It's a pretty lousy movie. The cheerful early seventies theme that opens the feature ("How happy we'll be, together you and me... Arrrrnold, Arrrnold!") is played over the background of a funeral in an obviously small soundstage with styrafoam tombstones and the obligatory raven and fog, which is of course hillarious.
But it's a fun watch. No one in it thinks they're in a classic, and the whole situation gets quite laughable frequently. It's got enough aspects of a whodunit to be vaugly interesting.
Best points are probably the police constable commenting 'Now, is this place a cemetary because it's always foggy here, or is it always foggy here because it's a cemetary?' and the tapedeck in the coffin. Oyvey!
The only word for it is 'hypnotic'. You'll keep watching. You won't believe what you're seeing, yet you'll have to watch more.
In the words of the bobby "If I hadn't a seen it I wouldn'ta believed it!"
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Details
- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
- Sprache
- Auch bekannt als
- Family Plot
- Drehorte
- 1486 North Sweetzer Ave. Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA(Castle scenes. The location is known as the Mt. Kalmia castle/ estate.)
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Box Office
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 23.616 $