AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

JohnHowardReid It's good to see this movie is now available on an excellent Warner Brothers DVD entitled "Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics". (The other titles in this four DVD set are The Walking Dead, Frankenstein 1970, and Zombies on Broadway). Mind you, it's not as entertaining on a third viewing as it is on a first or second – but what movie is? The surprises here are not only in Director David Butler's whodunit itself (when it finally gets going after a very long introductory sequence delightfully showcasing Kay Kyser and his band and his fabulous vocalists, Ginny Sims and Harry Babbitt) and the twists in the plot but in some of the characterizations. The talented Mervyn Bogue, for instance, who was actually the manager of the Kay Kyser Band in real life, is just a drag when he runs through his routines on a third viewing. Also, one is more horrified than amused in runthrough number three by Kay Kyser presenting himself as a first- class jerk and fraidy cat. On the other hand, nothing can dim Karloff, Lugosi, and especially Lorre who really comes to the fore when his two competitors are starting to lose their first and second times' charisma. And whatever happened to the lovely Helen Parrish? Ah, she went into TV as early as 1946 and died, alas, from cancer at the age of 35 in 1958.

utgard14 The open to You'll Find Out is the worst part. It begins with Kay Kyser and band doing their radio show. The lame jokes, over-the-top actions of the band, irritating song, and Kyser giving new meaning to the word obnoxious make it hard to sit through. After watching this opening eight or so minutes I imagined I was in for a great deal of pain for the next hour and a half.However, after the unbearable start, it becomes a fun little "old dark house" movie. Don't get me wrong, Kyser and company still try to be funny throughout...and they're not...but it isn't quite as in-your-face as that opening scene. Ish Kabibble is especially lame. Often he reminds me of the snickering dog Muttley on the old Wacky Races cartoon. As a matter of fact, cartoonish is the perfect word to describe the humor in this film .The movie's selling point is not the corny humor, however. It's the horror trio of Karloff, Lugosi, and Lorre in their only outing together. They don't get a lot to do but the movie of course belongs to them anytime they're on screen. Also highly enjoyable was the usage of the cool and creepy Sonovox. Those scenes are some of the movie's highlights.It seems strange to recommend a comedy that isn't funny. But there's enough going on with the mystery and the stranded guests to keep you entertained. It's a fun movie with a good cast. Just prepare to grit your teeth to get through the opening mess.

bkoganbing Classic horror film fans will salivate at the thought of seeing Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre all at their devilish best in any film even if it's not a horror film per se. But the star of this film was noted band-leader and radio personality Kay Kyser who back in 1940 was enormously popular for his music and his Spike Jones lite type of orchestra comedy.You'll Find Out features Kay and the boys hired to play at a party that their manager Dennis O'Keefe has arranged for his girlfriend Helen Parrish. She's an heiress whose money is held in trust by her aunt Alma Kruger. But Kruger is in the thrall of fake swami Bela Lugosi who's got a séance also planned for the evening. Also in attendance in addition to Parrish's girlfriends are Boris Karloff as the family attorney and Peter Lorre as a psychologist hired to expose Lugosi as a fake.If you liked as I do Abbott&Costello Meet Frankenstein than you should like this film as well. In fact Bud and Lou also did Hold That Ghost which is even more similar to this film. But it's a double treat if you like the music of the era as I did.Kay Kyser's orchestra also featured singers Harry Babbitt and Ginny Simms who introduce I'd Know You Anywhere which gained for You'll Find Out an Oscar nomination. Kyser himself was good as both comedian and musician.Even though it's a comedy and not a Gothic horror film one should never pass up seeing Karloff, Lugosi, and Lorre in the same film.

Neil Doyle YOU'LL FIND OUT is strictly a product of the '40s, when a mixture of comedy and horror was standard fare for a Saturday afternoon at the movies. Usually this sort of dark house comedy was left to Abbott and Costello but this time it's band leader Kay Kyser, who was a sort of Spike Jones of his day.It's a gimmicky sort of dark house mystery where most of the action takes place in a "haunted" mansion full of secret panels and passageways, all scary enough to provide the setting for a story about a trio of gangsters (BELA LUGOSI, PETER LORRE and BORIS KARLOFF) scheming to murder a young woman (Helen Parrish) for her father's inheritance, by holding a seance at which her father will appear and frighten her to death--or so they hope.The comedy provided by Kyser and his band (especially Ish Kabibble) is extremely corny and some of the one-liners are creaky enough to turn off the chills, but it's all done in such an innocently good-natured way that it comes off as harmless fun, if only mildly entertaining.David Butler (who co-wrote, produced and directed) obviously had a good time putting this one together. The grand old mansion is a fabulous setting for the scary scenes, there's plenty of thunder and lightning to keep the atmosphere loaded, and all of the performers do their best to keep things spinning along.Handsome DENNIS O'KEEFE shows a good flair for comedy, even if his material is on the weak side, and GINNY SIMMS proves that she was a pleasing enough pop singer with a really good voice and personality.But it's a hit-and-miss sort of film, funny in spots, scary in others, but as cliché-ridden as the old dark house comedies come. Oddly enough, despite the presence of Karloff, Lorre and Lugosi, the creepiest performance in the film is given by ALMA KRUGER as an old gal who likes to communicate with the dead, all the while viewing everyone with an icy stare.