The Dark Tower

6.1(15)19431h 30m

DramaThriller

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

Director

John Harlow

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Cast

Ben Lyon

Phil Danton

Anne Crawford

Mary

David Farrar

Tom Danton

Herbert Lom

Stephen Torg

Frederick Burtwell

Willie Wainwright

William Hartnell

Jim Towers (as Bill Hartnell)

Josephine Wilson

Dora Shogun

Elsie Wagstaff

Eve Wainwright (as Elsie Wagstaffe)

J.H. Roberts

Dr. Wilson

Aubrey Mallalieu

Doctor

Reviews

2 reviews

John Chard

5y ago

6.0

The Mesmerising Menace. The Dark Tower is directed by John Harlow and is adapted to screenplay by Brock Williams from the play George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woollcott. It stars Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom and William Hartnell. Music is by Jack Beaver and cinematography by Otto Heller. A failing circus employs a mysterious hypnotist to boost the coffers, which with hi...

Geronimo1967

3y ago

6.0

Herbert Lom is superbly pervasive in this drama about the hypnotic "Torg", who alights on a struggling circus run by "Phil" (Ben Lyon) and his brother "Tom" (David Farrar). He introduces them to a game-changing acrobatic act that soon has the crowds turning up in droves. As success starts to come, "Torg" seeks more from the pair, and from his high-flying partner "Mary" (Anne Crawford) and when the...