Old Mansion Mystery: The Dark Hour w/ Hedda Hopper on Film Ray Walker stars in the creepy old mansion mystery The Dark Hour. Made by veteran director Charles Lamont, The Dark Hour is a twisted tale of murder and suspects. The beautiful Irene Ware, a former Miss America, plays Elsa Carson, a young girl who is worried about her strange uncles. She gets two detectives to check out the house, and they discover a murdered man! Everyone becomes a suspect, but the investigators can’t figure out what happened. The Dark Hour keeps viewers guessing until the very end, oozing secrecy and riddles the entire way.