What can I say about a film this classic that you haven't read, heard or seen before? If you haven't seen it, please do so, you can find it on Netflix, and if you have seen it, then watch it again, I'm sure that just like me, you've probably forgotten how good a film it really is!
Here's the star of the movie, William Castle's granddaddy,
"The Black Castle" itself!
Besides the people that dwell here, The Castle has issues of it's own! I was just reading about a 45 room place in England for sale, that had no indoor pumbing! Something like 4 and a half million dollars and no bathroom, what a deal!!
You've all heard the song about the "Green Door," but if you really want to get pickled, you need to head on over to the "Green Man" bar! The "Blue Man" group plays there every other Thursday!
On the left is Stephen (The Fiend Who Walked The West) McNally as the oh so sinister Count Karl von Bruno, and on the right is Richard (143 episodes of Robin Hood) Greene as Sir Ronald Burton, alias Richard Beckett, a man out to find out why a couple of his best friends died mysteriously!!
The always amazing Boris Karloff is Dr. Meissen! Boris not only makes a great Frankenstein, he also can play a benevolent Doctor with ease, and he's not messin' around!
Rita (The Body Snatcher) Corday is the evil Count's wife, Countess Elga von Bruno! I can't imagine why Rita changed her name from the name she was born with, Jeanne Paule Teipotemarga!! Even more so, her credits on this film are as Paula Corday!
Well, you can see where this is going, Sir Ronald and The Countess are getting along a lot better than him and The Count for some reason!
This is what you call a very strategically placed clue!!
What a pair of scalliwags! The Count is joined by his best buddy, Michael (Curse Of The Undead) Pate as Count Ernst von Melcher! It's amazing, not only do these two look like brothers, they're in the two movies in title that I always get mixed up about, "The Fiend That Walked The West," and "Curse Of The Undead!"
The duo of doom are joined here by yet another incredibly amazing talent, John (Attack Of The Puppet People, 2 Episodes of The Twilight Zone, and 3 Outer Limits) Hoyt as Count Steiken! It seems like the word Count must have been a pseudonym for stinkin' bastard back in the day! If there would have been two more counts, we could of had a "Psychotic Reaction!"
Okay, if you're not convinced yet, Lon Chaney Jr. is also in this film as the big lummox Gargon always sneaking into somebody's bedroom at night!!
Just in case he's not crazy enough, here's a hint as to why Count von Bruno wears an eyepatch!!
Just for kicks, The Count and his castle also sport an alligator pit that has to be circumvented thusly!!
Now if he just had a computer sitting in front of him, I'd say this is what I look like a lot of the time lately!!
"The Black Castle" might be 60 years olde, but I'm still not going to tell you how it started or ended! It's just that damn good! Don't take my word for it, see for yourself!!
It's kinda funny to hear "The Gang's All Here!" in the theme song when the gang ain't all there! Anywho, here's the soundclip Eegah!! gave us, soooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over there by the atomic-powered catapult, NOW, Rufus The Gnat! Here's some audio from... UP IN SMOKE!
Here's Sach stretching the bacon at Clancy's Diner, the gang's official hangout. 
After losing $90 the gang had saved for a trip to the hot springs for a neighborhhood kid with polio to some crooked bookies, well, Sach would do just about anything to get that money back. 
The devil, Mr. Bobb, pops in to offer Sach a way to get the money back and more! You can hear the reference to 'falsies' in the soundclip, it makes more sense when you realize that he's talking about his devil horns! The familiar looking Byron Foulger plays the foul one, Byron ended up with a total of 466 acting credits!.. Amazing!!
James Flavin plays the copper interested in buying the 'cheep' classic piece of junk. He goes into the diner to talk turkey with the guys when Sach comes along and drives the thing away because he's decided to sell it at a car lot to get some money. And, that's how comedy woiks!.. 
See, no jalopy, just thin air... Funny, right?.. But, where did it GO, George? My favorite comedy writer is Michael Maltese. 
Earle Hodgins plays Friendly Frank, who almost destroys the heap o' junk just proving to Sach what a heap o' junk it actually is! 
Sach is in such a prediciment now that he agrees to Mr. Bobb's demands to let him have his soul in return for a week's worth of winning tips at the horse races. 
And now, for something completely different! ...Ta-da!! 
Fritz 'pop your mouth' Feld plays the zany psychiatrist who tries to help Sach, since he's been talking to people that aren't there! The doc's the one that ends up on the couch, naturally. 
The crooks bring in a dame, Judy Bamber as Mabel, to butter up the boys and get some inside info on Sach's uncanny ability to pick winners. 
Sach figures his only way out of the prediciment is to make sure that the winning horse loses the race! 
As a result, Mr.Bobb is no longer the Mr. Big of the underworld he once was and ends up working as a waiter at Clancy's Diner in a second chance attempt to get back his horns. You'll have to watch for yourself to see if he gets them back or not! TCM play Bowery Boys movies all the time, so, catch some of them!
