The Black Raven

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Russ G Another Poverty Row one-hour masterpiece! Cheap sets - dig that stairway bannister swaying at the slightest touch - and a bunch of journeymen B-listers playing stock characters including an idiot, a Wild West sheriff on the Canadian border, a mobster, an escaped convict, a crooked politician, and a love-struck couple on their way to an elopement across the border. There's no crime solving here, just hokey atmospherics and a rapidly escalating body count. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 05/05/25 Full Review rob m A silly and enjoyable old murder mystery movie with George Zucco. A number of strangers arrive at a spooky old inn on a dark and stormy night. Soon there is a murder that everyone tries to solve. This was a brief, public domain mystery film and enjoyable. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This is a fun black comedy! A parody of the dark and stormy night in the creepy old house genre. It's a cross between noir Newhart and criminal Faulty Towers with George Zucco as the Newhart-esk straight man. Even the introduction with the guy telling motorists that the bridge is washed out is played for laughs. Could anyone take a hotel called the Black Raven seriously, even as a smugglers inn? I'll have to watch it again to pick up all the sly references to genre tropes. Loved it! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member A super short and cheap old dark house mystery starring George Zucco. A bunch of people end up at the Black Raven hotel ... money is at stake, people die ... who did it? After an hour of set up, it's rapidly sewn up with an insultingly quick "hey, that guy did it!" ending. There's a degree of automatic entertainment value to a short flick of this genre with a good lead, but this one fails to stretch anywhere beyond that. Glenn Strange also appears without Frankenstein makeup. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member An enjoyably Old Dark House mystery thriller potboiler--Zucco Paradox!! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review bill t Creaky and odd whodunit based in an old hotel which hosts a motley of characters forced to stay the night while a ravaging storm rages outside. During the stay, a well known politician is slain! Who did it? Was it the hotel propeitor? The fiancee of the politician's daughter? Or some other strange character wandering around? The solution is not TOO hard to guess, while you're not being distracted by the uniformly bad acting that's going on, especially by Miss Wanda Mckay, who gives new meaning to the word "Wooden". Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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