Fantasy ·Drama ·Crime ·TV Movie · United States of America · 1984 · 1h 56m

The House of Dies Drear

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Director
Allan A. Goldstein
Cast
Howard Rollins as Walter Small Shavar Ross as Thomas Small Gloria Foster as Sheila Small Moses Gunn as River Lewis Darrow Clarence Williams III as Mayhew Skinner Joe Seneca as Pluto
Crew
Marc Champion — Director of Photography Victor Kanefsky — Editor Edward Bland — Original Music Composer Richard Wesley — Writer Virginia Hamilton — Novel Valerie Shepherd — Producer
Tagline

Is it, or isn't it...haunted?

Synopsis

A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.

Key Collaborators
Allan A. Goldstein Director Marc Champion Director of Photography Victor Kanefsky Editor Edward Bland Original Music Composer Richard Wesley Writer Virginia Hamilton Novel Valerie Shepherd Producer Joseph Dennis Producer Barbara Dunphy Production Design
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