Based on The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, this was directed by George King and written by Edward Dryhurst, Frederick Hayward and H. F. Maltby. It stars Tod Slaughter as a man taking the place of Sir Percival Glyde, trying to take his estate, Blackwater Park. It starts with him hammering a tent stake into the man’s ear and continues to have him murder many people who think that he’s an imposter. Who knew that slashers started in 1940?

Maybe the estate is bankrupt, so despite all the killing that the fake Sir Percival has already done, he has to romance and marry heiress Laurie Fairlie (Sylvia Marriott), then he plans to murder her and replace her with a mental patient who looks just like her.

Slaughter was known as the villain in Victorian stage plays, which were all about him being over the top. He does that here, strangling people, shouting about “beastly germs” when someone sneezes and being haunted by the woman in white. He’s the best.

You can download this from the Internet Archive.