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The House of Dies Drear

8.019841h 56mMovieFantasyDramaCrime

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.

DirectorAllan A. Goldstein
WriterRichard Wesley
ProducersJoseph Dennis·Chiz Schultz

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Cast · Directed by Allan A. Goldstein

HRHoward Rollins
Howard Rollins
Walter Small
SRShavar Ross
Shavar Ross
Thomas Small
GFGloria Foster
Gloria Foster
Sheila Small
MGMoses Gunn
Moses Gunn
River Lewis Darrow
CIClarence Williams III
Clarence Williams III
Mayhew Skinner
JSJoe Seneca
Joe Seneca
Pluto
FFFrances Foster
Frances Foster
Great-Grandmother Jeffers
HLHardee T. Lineham
Hardee T. Lineham
Edgar Carr
TATichina Arnold
Tichina Arnold
Pesty
KHKadeem Hardison
Kadeem Hardison
Mac Darrow
HR
Hank Ross
Wilbur Darrow
ECEugene Clark
Eugene Clark
River Ross Darrow

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