Lorinda channing (cecil cunningham) has helped her crazy brother (milton parsons) escape the sanitarium, and promises to look after him at home. What she really wants is to use the brother john to scare off the rest of her family, who she thinks is after her money. Lorinda even lays out a plan (in a very loud voice) to fake her own death to find out what the family will do! Then the strange accidents start happening.... and pretty soon, the bodies start piling up. Even the pet raven isn't safe. It's a corny horror flick... but lorinda really just needed a hobby. She could have been helping the war effort, instead of wasting all that time worrying about what her family thought of her. It's all pretty silly. From the play by Rufus King. Directed by Ben Stoloff; he had done the amazing Soup to Nuts in 1930.
Review of The Hidden Hand
