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The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

admin2 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:10:18 +0000

After surviving a shipwreck in reefs not signalized in the maritime charts, the famous hunter Rober “Bob” Rainsford is lodged by the Russian hunter Count Zaroff in his castle in an isolated island. Bob meets Eve Trowbridge and her brother Martin Trowbridge, also survivors of another wrecked vessel and hosted by Zaroff. Soon, Bob and Eve find that they are part of a hunting game plotted by the insane Zarof where they are the prey, and they have to escape and survive until the next morning to Zaroff and his hounds.

Adventure | Thriller | Horror | Mystery

Joel McCrea	…	Bob Rainsford
Fay Wray	…	Eve Trowbridge
Leslie Banks	…	Count Zaroff
Robert Armstrong	…	Martin Trowbridge
Noble Johnson	…	Ivan
Steve Clemente	…	Tartar Servant (as Steve Clemento)
Oscar ‘Dutch’ Hendrian	…	Tarter Servant (as Dutch Hendrian)
William B. Davidson	…	Captain (as William Davidson)

Lady of Burlesque (1943)

admin2 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:04:03 +0000

Sassy Dixie Daisy is the hot new attraction at a former opera house that’s been turned into a burlesque theater. She’s popular with the customers, although not with Lolita La Verne, a stuck-up diva who was hoping she’d get the top spot. Also complicating matters is the return of the Princess Nirvena, the show’s former star who once had a fling with the boss. When the Princess blackmails her way into the top spot, Dixie is none too pleased. When both Lolita and the Princess are murdered, Dixie becomes a prime suspect. She then sets up a trap to nail the real killer.

Comedy | Horror | Music | Mystery | Romance

Barbara Stanwyck	…	Deborah Hoople, aka Dixie Daisy
Michael O’Shea	…	Biff Brannigan
Iris Adrian	…	Gee Gee Graham
Charles Dingle	…	Inspector Harrigan
J. Edward Bromberg	…	S.B. Foss
Frank Conroy	…	‘Stacchi’ Stacciaro
Victoria Faust	…	Lolita La Verne
Gloria Dickson	…	Dolly Baxter

The Ape Man (1943)

admin2 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:40:45 +0000

Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors.

Horror | Sci-Fi

Bela Lugosi	…	Dr. James Brewster
Louise Currie	…	Billie Mason
Wallace Ford	…	Jeff Carter
Henry Hall	…	Dr. George Randall
Minerva Urecal	…	Agatha Brewster
Emil Van Horn	…	The Ape

Ape, The (1940)

admin2 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:36:14 +0000

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman’s polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people.

Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi

Boris Karloff	…	Dr. Bernard Adrian
Maris Wrixon	…	Miss Frances Clifford
Gene O’Donnell	…	Danny Foster
Dorothy Vaughan	…	Mother Clifford
Gertrude Hoffman	…	Jane, Adrian’s Housekeeper (as Gertrude W. Hoffman)
Henry Hall	…	Sheriff Jeff Halliday
Selmer Jackson	…	Dr. McNulty

Svengali (1931)

admin2 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:47:05 +0000

Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him, he uses his powers to cause her suicide and promptly forgets her. He meets a beautiful model, Trilby, and becomes infatuated with her, but she, in turn, falls for a young artist called Billee who also loves her. One day Svengali hypnotizes Trilby to cure her headache, but also examines her upper palate and decides it is an ideal cavity for great singing. He convinces her to fake her suicide, so Billee and friends will forget her, and goes on a singing tour with her. Svengali uses his powers to make her sing wonderfully and Madame Svengali, as Trilby is now known, becomes a sensation throughout Europe. But Billee discovers the ruse and begins to follow the pair, upsetting Svengali enough to have him cancel performances too frequently, so they no longer can perform in Europe. They go to Egypt, but Billee relentlessly follows.

Drama | Horror

John Barrymore	…	Svengali
Marian Marsh	…	Trilby O’Farrell
Donald Crisp	…	The Laird
Bramwell Fletcher	…	Billee
Carmel Myers	…	Madame Honori
Luis Alberni	…	Gecko
Lumsden Hare	…	Monsieur Taffy
Paul Porcasi	…	Bonelli

Spooks Run Wild (1941)

admin2 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:34:55 +0000

The boys are sent to a mountain camp. Stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a “monster killer” roaming the countryside. At night, they sneak out. Peewee is shot by a grave-digger, and they are forced to seek aid at an old mansion. The owner of the mansion (Lugosi), insists that the boys spend the night. After seeing PeeWee walk around the house in a trance, the boys decide that the man turned him into a zombie. They gang up on him and tie him up. The nurse at the boys camp (Dorothy Short) sets out to find the missing boys with Von Grosch (Dennis Moore), who has come to rid the town of the killer- or has he?

Horror | Comedy

Bela Lugosi	…	Nardo
Leo Gorcey	…	Muggs
Bobby Jordan	…	Danny
Huntz Hall	…	Glimpy
Ernest Morrison	…	Scruno (as Sunshine Sammy Morrison)
Dave O’Brien	…	Jeff Dixon (as David O’Brien)
Dorothy Short	…	Linda Mason

Rogue’s Tavern (1936)

admin2 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:27:50 +0000

A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.

Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Romance

Wallace Ford	…	Jimmy Kelly
Barbara Pepper	…	Marjorie Burns
Joan Woodbury	…	Gloria Robloff
Clara Kimball Young	…	Mrs. Jamison
Jack Mulhall	…	Bill

Mysterious Mr. Wong, The (1934)

admin2 — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:03:57 +0000

Investigating a series of murders in Chinatown, wise-guy reporter Jason Barton is captured by the megalomaniacal Mr. Wong, desperately trying to complete his collection of the twelve gold coins of Confucius, with which he will be able to acquire the power to become ruler of a large province in China.

Mystery | Horror

Bela Lugosi	…	Mr. Fu Wong, aka Lysee (as Béla Lugosi)
Wallace Ford	…	Jason H. ‘Jay’ Barton
Arline Judge	…	Peg
E. Alyn Warren	…	Phillip Tsang (as Fred Warren)
Lotus Long	…	Moonflower, Wong’s Niece

Monster Maker, The (1944)

admin2 — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:36:33 +0000

Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.

Horror

J. Carrol Naish	…	Dr. Igor Markoff
Ralph Morgan	…	Anthony Lawrence
Tala Birell	…	Maxine
Wanda McKay	…	Patricia Lawrence
Terry Frost	…	Bob Blake

Maniac (1934)

admin2 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:46:41 +0000

Don Maxwell is an ex-vaudeville ham, wanted by police, who has now found himself as the unlikely assistant to Dr. Meirschultz, a mad scientist in the business of reanimating corpses. Maxwell’s gift of impersonation gets him and Meirschultz past the guards and into a morgue where they use a special serum to revive the corpse of a pretty young woman. But that’s nothing. Dr. Meirschultz has a heart beating in a jar of solution and is eager to put it into a corpse that really needs it. Meirschultz gives his assistant a gun and advises him to commit suicide, so that he can put the heart in him, but Maxwell shoots and kills the scientist instead and hides the body. People will miss Meirschultz, Maxwell quickly realizes, but no one will miss his lowly assistant; and so Maxwell dons eyeglasses and a fake beard to become his onetime benefactor. The trouble is, he impersonates the mad doctor too well and goes crazy himself.

Horror

William Woods	…	Don Maxwell (as Bill Woods)
Horace B. Carpenter	…	Dr. Meirschultz
Ted Edwards	…	Buckley
Phyllis Diller	…	Mrs. Buckley
Thea Ramsey	…	Alice Maxwell