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The Scarlet Empress ***** (1934, Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C Aubrey Smith, Edward Van Sloan, Gavin Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 2936

Marlene Dietrich is truly magnificent in The Scarlet Empress, producer-director Josef von Sternberg’s spectacular and thrilling 1934 visual explosion of a historical romantic biopic. Forget screen-writer Manuel Komroff’s average sort of tale, which is allegedly […]

Oct, 03

Dracula’s Daughter *** (1936, Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 2767

Director Lambert Hillyer’s 1936 horror movie (remotely based on Bram Stoker’s short story Dracula’s Guest) is a low-budget, effective sequel to the 1931 Dracula that picks up (alas without Bela Lugosi) where it leaves off. The […]

Aug, 02

The Mummy **** (1932, Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 99

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…’ – […]

Jul, 28

Dracula ***** (1931, Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye) – Classic Movie Review 89

Tod Browning’s 1931 horror film Dracula is one of the all-time-great, ultimate vampire movies. Bela Lugosi re-creates his theatre role magnificently, with great eerie, other-worldly authority.  One of the all-time-great, ultimate vampire movies, director Tod […]

Jul, 25

Frankenstein ***** (1931, Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan) – Classic Movie Review 31

Made in 1931, this is still the archetypal horror film of all time, retaining its startling power to disturb and delight, and it is also high among the cinema’s most glorious and imaginative fairy-tales. The Baron […]

Jul, 08

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