Frank R. StrayerMonster Walks, The (1932)

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Director: Frank R. Strayer
Producer: Cliff P. Broughton
Production Company: Action Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, b&w
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Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Shadows_Girl - - August 21, 2007
Subject: AIEEE!!! THE MONSTER WALKS!!!

A previous reviewer refers to this film as an "unintentional" comedy. It wasn't. What it WAS was a "dramedy" (or comedy-drama) of the type so popular in the 30s and early 40s. It is also, alas, another example of Hollywood racism in that African-American actor William "Willie" Best wasn't even credited under his own name in the credits. Being referred to, instead, as "Sleep 'N Eat" (a clear reference to the stereotype that African-Americans were constitutionally lazy...they aren't). Bob Hope (who worked with him in "The Ghost-Breakers" (1940) called Willie one of the finest (comedic) talents he had ever worked with.
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But enough about those depressing days. In this film, as always, Willie does what he can with what he is given and what he does makes us laugh because he is great at that. Rex Lease had a LONG career in films and on television but I remember him best as Walter Jameson, best friend to Jack Mulhall's Craig Kennedy in the serial THE CLUTCHING HAND (and when is someone going to upload that to the archive? That's a serial worth watching, I'll tell you!!! It even has good old Jon Hall (Ramar of the Jungle to us older folks). And then there's Mischa Auer as Hannes. Mischa, unforgettable as Prince Nikki Starloff in the 1945 film version of Agatha Christie's TEN LITTLE INDIANS called AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. Unforgettable because Nikki sings that damn song that gets stuck in your head the same way "It's a Small World" and "Shortnin' Bread" and others tend to do.
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Oh the heck with it. It's one of those good old dark house movies that they can't make anymore because everyone thinks they are too corny. I recommend it because it's fun in the old style.
Three stars

Reviewer: beirwer - - April 10, 2007
Subject: "Oh Ted, take me away"

I had to wonder just what she kept meaning by that, being as every time she says it they make no indication of leaving.

I though this was alright, myself. Not "so bad it's good" either, but really pretty decent. A little stiff and somewhat ploding, just like the character Hanns (a different kind of monster), but for me that just added to the atmosphere. Atmosphere is what you have to watch a movie like this for. If you expect to be wowed you'll be dissapointed. A great "creepy old house in a storm" movie.

Reviewer: jimelena - - May 24, 2006
Subject: This is funny

Really bad movies are funny, and this is really bad.
However, the monster does indeed walk, so the title delivers.
You have to be in the mood for this kind of cheaply produced unintentional comedy so save it until you are in the mood.