Word: trapdoors
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...women screaming, Lugosi, in the form of a huge bat, flits in and out of the windows of Carfax Abbey, close to which most of the action takes place. Dracula is an exciting melodrama, not as good as it ought to be but a cut above the ordinary trapdoor-and-winding-sheet type of mystery film. Silliest sound: Helen Chandler's feeble soprano chirrup uttered repeatedly as an indication of superhuman fear...
...water, at least convinces that they are undressed. There are also two funnymen- melancholy little Jimmie Savo and handsome Jack Benny- and one extremely funny man, Herb Williams. Mr. Williams culminates his evening's work when, while playing the piano, he pauses to remove a sandwich from a trapdoor in the piano stool, and to draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot under the keyboard...
...England," is engaged in tracking down an elderly emerald thief who lives in a tower equipped with bloodhounds, secret passages, a beautiful girl, and a masked hunchback with a penchant for strangling people with his bare hands. Typical shot: the criminal-in-chief dropping a rebellious henchman through a trapdoor into quicksand...
Police searched the Dane house. It was a residential fortress. Its arsenal contained two machine guns, numerous rifles, automatics, tear gas bombs, bottles of nitroglycerin. A trapdoor under a rug led to a hidden room with an emergency exit. In a closet were found bonds worth $319,850, part of which were identified as loot from a recent Jefferson, Wis., bank robbery. Questioning "Mrs. Dane," officers learned that Dane was none other than Fred Burke, alias Thomas Brook, alias "Cornbread" Burchell, alias Camp, Kemp, Kemper, deadliest of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone's Chicago gangsters...
...copies of Everyman closed their books, listened to the opening of the Deity's speech. When it was finished they turned to an outdoor stage and saw enacted the rest of the 16th century morality play. There were screams of mock-horror when the Devil popped from a trapdoor, careened fiendishly over the stage, diabolically swished a crimson tail. Then the audience commented on the beauty of the setting when, as the Cathedral in the background was streaked with soft shadows, Everyman prepared to climb into his grave, pathetically imploring...