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Director Tod Browning’s astute 1935 horror thriller has an engaging spoofy, parodic tone and a trick ending. A succulent Lionel Barrymore entertains as the eminent demonology expert Professor Zelin and the invaluable Bela Lugosi is on […]
When Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi dropped out of director George Waggner’s sci-fi horror movie co-feature, Lon Chaney Jnr took over the role intended for Karloff and made his horror film debut. Thus he gets his […]
The 1939 horror movie Son of Frankenstein is the third film in Universal’s superb Frankenstein series, the last to star Boris Karloff as the Monster but the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor. Director […]
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Ernst Lubitsch’s controversial 1942 wartime comedy drama film To Be or Not To Be is incredibly daring, funny and poignant. Jack Benny and Carole Lombard (in her last […]
The 1942 spy thriller film Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon is Holmes’s second updated B-movie adventure. Basil Rathbone pretends to be a Nazi spy, adopts various disguises and has to crack a code to […]
Memorable as the first appearance of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson, the 1939 The Hound of the Baskervilles is a delightful vintage mystery treat. It is the first of their 14 […]