Hiss and Yell

1946 PG-13 17m

5.0 / 10 4

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Vera thinks she's witnessed a man decapitating his wife. Actually, she's only seen magician Bluebeard the Great rehearsing his act. Still convinced that the magician is a killer, Vera goes through all sorts of comic agony when she is forced to share the same train compartment with Bluebeard (who doesn't help matters when he offers her a sandwich consisting of "scrambled brains and tongue").

Director Jules White

Writers

Felix Adler Felix Adler

Stars

Barbara Jo Allen Barton Yarborough Symona Boniface

Barbara Jo Allen

Vera Vague

Barton Yarborough

Barton O'Hara aka Bluebeard the Great

Symona Boniface

Train Passenger (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

Policeman (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

Delivery Man (uncredited)

Fred Kelsey

Policeman (uncredited)

Emil Sitka

Drunken Gardener (uncredited)

Victor Travis

Conductor (uncredited)

John Tyrrell

Policeman (uncredited)

Johnny Kascier

Minor Role (uncredited)

Comedy

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Geronimo1967 14 Jul 2025

5/10

To be fair to Barbara Jo Allen here, she gives it all she has got as she tries to squeeze just about every mishap and misunderstanding into twenty minutes of light slapstick comedy. She’s “Vera” who thinks she saw magician “Bluebeard” (Barton Yarborough) get up to something especially macabre. He tells her that he’s just practicing for his stage-show, but she’s sceptical - to put it mildly. That n...