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Director George Cukor’s 1932 drama is a creaky version of Clemence Dane’s family problem drama written for the theatre. It is virtually a static film of the play, but it is notable as the film début […]
Journey’s End (1930) was a huge success and launched the film careers of James Whale and Colin Clive, who stayed on in America to make Frankenstein (1931) together. Debut film director James Whale’s 1930 early […]
Hungarian psychiatrist Dr Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) plots a hideous revenge on his old friend Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff) in the weird and wonderful 1934 horror movie The Black Cat. Director Edgar G Ulmer’s weird […]
Boris Karloff is on fine menacing form, swearing destruction as Imhotep (‘Kheb, khebet…’), in The Mummy (1933). Ironically in real life Imhotep’s name meant ‘He who comes in peace is with peace’. ‘Kheb, khebet…’ – […]
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