Tagged: Bela Lugosi
The Door with Seven Locks is a 1940 black-and-white British film, created and released shortly after the British Board of Film Censors lifted its mid-1930′s ban on the importation of supernatural-themed and horror genre films. Released in the United States by Monogram Pictures under the title Chamber of Horrors, it was the second Edgar Wallace [...]
When a wealthy man (Lionel Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive. Patsy Kelly portrays a newly-hired maid who wants to quit because the butler, played by Bela Lugosi, scares her.
The Black Sleep (1956) is an American black-and-white horror film, scripted by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams developed for producers Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, who had a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists. The film was re-released in 1962 as Dr. Cadman’s Secret.
The film was directed by Reginald [...]
The Whispering Shadow (1933) is a serial film, starring Bela Lugosi in his first serial role.
Lugosi received $10,000 for this film, the highest known salary of his career for this film. (He also received the same amount for The Mystery of the Marie Celeste in 1935).
It was filmed in only 12 days. It was the [...]
The Mystery of the Marie Celeste (a.k.a. The Phantom Ship) (1935) is one of the early films from Hammer Film Productions and was directed by Denison Clift. The leading actor is Bela Lugosi. The action is the basis the history of the Marie Celeste (actually Mary Celeste). The ship was found floating near Portugal in [...]
The story told by this diary is tonight’s tale of… suspense. If you’ve been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that Suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series are tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution… until the last possible moment.
The East Side Kids set out to fix up a house in the suburbs for Glimpy’s sister and her new husband. They find out the the neighbors are pretty spooky, including “The Man of a Thousand Horrors”, Bela Lugosi. This one has Ava Gardner in it. That’s always good.
The Society of the Black Dragons sends Bela Lugosi (Dr. Melcher) to transform 6 japanese into indentical likenesses of American industrialists forming a 5th column. This is at the behest of the Nazis. This film isn’t as good as British Intelligence (1940), but is sort of along the same lines as WWII was [...]
The Devil Bat (1940) is a black-and-white horror movie which was produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) and directed by Jean Yarbrough. The film stars the well known horror actor Bela Lugosi, along with Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O’Brien, Guy Usher, Yolande Mallott, and Donald Kerr.
Murder by Television is a 1935 mystery film starring Bela Lugosi, June Collyar and Huntley Gordon. Also known as The Houghland Murder Case (USA)
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