By movieMoll on July 3, 2009
Bela Lugosi’s over-the-top performance as mad scientist Dr. Richard Vollin is not to be missed. Lugosi hams it up as a brilliant, egotistical surgeon that has a fanatical obsession with Edgar Allan Poe, keeping a stuffed raven on his desk and devices of torture described in Poe’s tales in his dungeon! Although Boris Karloff has [...]
Posted in Drama, Horror, Index, Mystery | Tagged Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Drama, Edgar Allan Poe, Horror, Mystery |
By GroovyMovieGuy on July 2, 2009
What girl could help herself from being drawn to the charms of Bela Lugosi in his late 50s? Well, most likely any girl, but that didn’t stop anyone from making this movie.
Edgar Allan Poe obsessed and “mature” Dr. Richard Vollin (Lugosi) saves the life of Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware) and turns his attention to the [...]
Posted in Drama, Horror, Index, Mystery | Tagged Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Drama, Edgar Allan Poe, Horror, Mystery |
By GroovyMovieGuy on February 13, 2009
Watch this movie.
Who could believe this was W.C. Fields first feature film?
He throws beer bottles out of his airplane window. He drives a car through a hotel. He sleeps with — well, in the bed next to — a young woman by accident then next to (on purpose) an elderly Chinese gentleman.
This movie has lines [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged Bela Lugosi, Cab Calloway, Classic, Comedy, Gracie Allen, Rudy Vallee, Screwball, W.C. Fields. George Burns |
By movieMoll on February 13, 2009
As madcap as any Marx Brothers film, International House packs non-stop fun into just over an hour. Not only is it a perfect vehicle for W.C. Fields in his first talking feature film, it sports classic dialogue between George Burns as the hotel doctor and Gracie Allen as his nurse. A legion of popular radio [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Screwball | Tagged Bela Lugosi, Cab Calloway, Classic, Comedy, Gracie Allen, Rudy Vallee, Screwball, W.C. Fields. George Burns |
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