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Twentyish daughter Cassie of newly-deceased psychotic magician Duke Duquesne is his sole beneficiary and must stay in his isolated Los Angeles mansion for seven nights in order to inherit hi... Read allTwentyish daughter Cassie of newly-deceased psychotic magician Duke Duquesne is his sole beneficiary and must stay in his isolated Los Angeles mansion for seven nights in order to inherit his $300,000 fortune.Twentyish daughter Cassie of newly-deceased psychotic magician Duke Duquesne is his sole beneficiary and must stay in his isolated Los Angeles mansion for seven nights in order to inherit his $300,000 fortune.
Leon Alton
- Theatre Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Walter Bacon
- Carnival Patron
- (uncredited)
Dick Cherney
- Theatre Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Beulah Christian
- Theatre Audience Member
- (uncredited)
William Conrad
- Fat Man in Hall of Mirrors
- (uncredited)
Billy Curtis
- Big Mike
- (uncredited)
George DeNormand
- Theatre Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Ayllene Gibbons
- Mourner at Funeral
- (uncredited)
Bobby Gilbert
- Mourner at Funeral
- (uncredited)
Jimmie Horan
- Mourner at Funeral
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe amusement park where Stevens and Jones spend an afternoon was Pacific Ocean Park, elements of which still exist today as part of Southern California's Santa Monica Pier.
- GoofsWhen Connie Stevens first enters her father's house, the shadow of the camera can be seen to her left on the wall.
- Quotes
Val Henderson: [wearing a mask of Duke's face] Welcome to the Twilight Zone!
- Crazy creditsThere is only a simple title card for the opening credits, and even that does not appear until almost six minutes into the film.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Biography: Cesar Romero: In a Class by Himself (2000)
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This scared the living daylights out of me as a kid
I don't understand the low rating on this film at all. Although I can understand why people would be skeptical about a horror film starring Connie Stevens and Walt Disney leading man Dean Jones, these two really click in this one. John Harley 'Duke' Duquesne (Cesar Romero) is a magician whose wife (Connie Stevens in a dual role as wife Melinda/daughter Cassie twenty years later) is part of the act. Daughter Cassie has been living with an aunt that does not approve of her show-business parents ever since her mother disappeared when she was two. Neither father nor mother have ever tried to contact her in all of these years, and then one day she is notified of her father's death and comes to the funeral.
Thus Cassie returns to L.A. first for the funeral and then to take up residence in her father's mansion for a week, which is a condition of his will in which he promises to rise from the grave within that time. If he does not, Cassie is free to move out and take possession of her inheritance. In the meantime, reporter Val Henderson (Dean Jones) has taken an interest in the story and in Cassie. Complicating matters is the fact that if Cassie for any reason leaves the mansion between midnight and dawn during these seven days then her former nursemaid and her father's long-time care-taker and her father's former agent get to split the fortune instead. Let me also mention that the fact that Duquesne retired from show business twenty years before has left the two indigent. So when Cassie starts hearing and seeing things in the wee hours, is this Duke back from the dead, is it the two secondary heirs trying to drive her out of the mansion, or something else entirely? Watch and find out.
The big creepy mansion is full of tricks and traps that somewhat presage the ending, and then there's the movie's score that is about the creepiest thing I've ever heard, aptly done by Max Steiner. Take it from me, this is no mediocre six star horror film.
Thus Cassie returns to L.A. first for the funeral and then to take up residence in her father's mansion for a week, which is a condition of his will in which he promises to rise from the grave within that time. If he does not, Cassie is free to move out and take possession of her inheritance. In the meantime, reporter Val Henderson (Dean Jones) has taken an interest in the story and in Cassie. Complicating matters is the fact that if Cassie for any reason leaves the mansion between midnight and dawn during these seven days then her former nursemaid and her father's long-time care-taker and her father's former agent get to split the fortune instead. Let me also mention that the fact that Duquesne retired from show business twenty years before has left the two indigent. So when Cassie starts hearing and seeing things in the wee hours, is this Duke back from the dead, is it the two secondary heirs trying to drive her out of the mansion, or something else entirely? Watch and find out.
The big creepy mansion is full of tricks and traps that somewhat presage the ending, and then there's the movie's score that is about the creepiest thing I've ever heard, aptly done by Max Steiner. Take it from me, this is no mediocre six star horror film.
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- Also known as
- Das Testament des Magiers
- Filming locations
- Pacific Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California, USA(amusement park)
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- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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