

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.
Acting
Hope's cowardly hero routine is peak mid-century wit.
Production
Fog-drenched Cuban castle sets are gloriously atmospheric.
Writing
Punchlines land harder than the scares.

Director
George Marshall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hope and Goddard starred in The Cat and the Canary two years prior, making this their unofficial horror-comedy reunion.
The film's 'voodoo zombie' mythology draws more from White Zombie (1932) than actual Haitian tradition, cementing Hollywood's exoticized Caribbean tropes for decades.