Famed archeologist Rick Banning has mysteriously vanished after reports surfaced claiming that he had unearthed the mythical...
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2007
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This program features a compilation of promotional film shorts produced during the 1930s as part of the Hollywood on Parade...
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2000
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The strange life and the wonderfully awful films of 1950's Hollywood Z movie director Ed Wood are profiled in this...
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1995
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This is a campy documentary about Ed Wood, who is considered to be the worst filmmaker ever. The notorious cross-dressing...
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1994
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An uneven but entertaining blend of graphic horror and black comedy from John Landis, very much in the mode of the director's...
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1992
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1988
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A profile of the world famous vampire in rare interviews and film clips of his greatest screen appearances. Lugosi is...
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1986
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Filled with enough cameos to keep film buffs entertained, this otherwise routine action-comedy by John Landis boasts...
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1985
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Director Andrew Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror movies and strung them...
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1984
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Directed by Philip Martell, music director of such horror films as Snake Woman (1961) and Die, Monster, Die! (1964), this...
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1983
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The World of Abbott and Costello is a dismal attempt by Universal Pictures to cash in on the popularity of Robert Youngson's...
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1965
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With its incoherent plot, jaw-droppingly odd dialogue, inept acting, threadbare production design, and special effects so...
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The Ghoul Man
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1956
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Given its cast and director, it is disheartening that The Black Sleep isn't any better than it is. Basil Rathbone heads the...
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Casimir
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1956
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To most outside observers, Bride of the Monster probably seems like a ridiculously inept horror film, and in many ways it is...
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Dr. Eric Vornoff
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1955
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Scientist
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1953
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In this horror movie an Irish char woman must stop an insane inventor who is planning to take over the world with a...
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1952
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Bela Lugosi plays a mad scientist in the jungle who stumbles across a couple of comedians (intended to resemble Dean Martin...
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Dr. Zabor
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1952
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It seems that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), in league with a beautiful but diabolical lady scientist (Lenore Aubert), needs a...
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Dracula
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1948
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Leonide
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1947
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Befitting his status as a genre star, Boris Karloff earns top billing over leading man Ralph Byrd in RKO's final Dick Tracy...
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1947
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RKO's prefabricated comedy team of Wally Brown and Alan Carney came to an abrupt end with Genius at Work. A slapsticky remake...
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Stone
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1946
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Joseph
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1945
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Another of Jack Haley's comedy vehicles for Pine-Thomas productions, One Body Too Many casts Haley as timid insurance...
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Larchmont Butler
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1944
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Though no more expensive or ambitious than any of his earlier Sam Katzman-produced vehicles, Bela Lugosi's Voodoo Man is...
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Dr. Richard Marlowe
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1944
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Campy Bela Lugosi plays a deranged scientist in this Monogram -produced horror movie. This time, Lugosi and his partner...
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Prof. Dexter
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1944
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This irresistably-titled comedy is arguably the best of RKO Radio's Wally Brown-Alan Carney vehicles. The daffy duo is cast...
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Dr. Paul Renault
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1944
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1944
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Ghosts on the Loose (which features no ghosts whatsoever) is perhaps the best-known of Monogram's "East Side Kids" series....
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Emil
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1943
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He looks like Dracula, talks like Dracula and dresses like Dracula; but since the movie rights to Dracula were controlled by...
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Armand Tesla
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1943
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Whatever poor Bela Lugosi may have done in a past life, the man did not deserve The Ape Man, arguably the worst of his...
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Dr. James Brewster
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1943
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Bowery at Midnight casts Bela Lugosi as Professor Brenner, a psychology instructor at New York University (which looks a lot...
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Prof. Brenner/Karl Wagner
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1942
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Despite the typical Monogram drawbacks -- murky photography, stolid staging, ramshackle sets -- The Corpse Vanishes remains...
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Dr. Lorenz
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1942
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The fifth film in Universal's "Frankenstein" series goes for the box-office gold by combining two--count 'em, two!--of the...
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Monster
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1942
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After an opening scene at a Washington DC cocktail party where it is demonstrated that "loose lips sink ships", the plot...
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Dr. Melcher Colomb
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1942
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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Ygor
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1942
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Reclusive Kurt Ingston (Ralph Morgan) finds himself playing host to an extraordinary array of guests at his decaying old...
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Rolf the Butler
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1942
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In their first of two Monogram spook comedies, the East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi square off in yet another haunted house. On...
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Nardo, the Monster
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1941
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"Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is...
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Bela
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1941
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1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest...
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Eduardo
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1941
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This campy, entertaining cheapie from PRC Pictures features Bela Lugosi as a chemist who plots an elaborate revenge scheme on...
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Dr. Paul Carruthers
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1941
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Invisible Ghost is far from the best of Bela Lugosi's Monogram vehicles (if indeed there is such a thing), but with...
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Dr. Charles Kessler
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1941
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Responding to star George Sanders' complaint that his role of "modern Robin Hood" Simon Templar was becoming a bore, RKO...
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Partner
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1940
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Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas...
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1940
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Rhino Video put out this compilation tape of trailers and film clips from the golden age of serials (the 1930s and 1940s),...
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1940
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Told in flashback as Dr. Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) is marched into the gas chamber, Black Friday concerns kindly college...
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Eric Mornay
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1940
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Prince Saliano
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1940
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Ygor
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1939
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The bravura performance of Bela Lugosi is the main selling card for the 12-episode Universal serial The Phantom Creeps....
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Dr. Alex Zorka
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1939
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Dr. Alex Zorka
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1939
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When Fox bought the rights to Ralph Spence's warhorse stage mystery-comedy The Gorilla for the Ritz Brothers, they walked out...
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1939
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"Garbo Laughs!" declared the ads for Ninotchka. In the face of dwindling foreign revenues, MGM decided to put Greta Garbo, a...
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Commissar Razinin
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1939
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In this eerie British thriller, a Scotland Yard detective looks into the mysterious drownings of five blind people. A...
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Dr. Orloff
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1939
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In his third of four action serials, horror star Bela Lugosi played Boroff, an internationally notorious fiend who's...
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Boroff
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1937
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It may be sacrilege to say so, but Dracula's Daughter is an immense improvement over the original 1931 Dracula, despite the...
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1936
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Notorious Hollywood tightwad Sam Katzman's first serial, Shadow of Chinatown stars Bela Lugosi as Victor Poten, a Eurasian...
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1936
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Dr. Felix Benet
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1936
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A postal inspector finds himself caught in a sticky situation as he tries to pin a rap for mail theft upon the owner of a...
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Benez
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1936
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Dr. Richard Vollin
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1935
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This chiller speculates upon a haunting real-life mystery that occurred off the English coast on December 5, 1872 where the...
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Anton Lorenzen
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1935
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Count Mora
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1935
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One of Bela Lugosi's least remembered films, this ultra low-budget whodunit with science fiction overtones features the...
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1935
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Tobu (Edmund Lowe) and Nick (Jack Holt) are championship scuba divers who fall out when Tobu loses his arm saving Nick's...
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Dr. Boehm
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1935
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To the world at large, Mr. Wong (Bela Lugosi) is a harmless shopkeeper in the Chinatown district (where no one seems unduly...
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Mr. Wong
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1935
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Return of Chandu is a 65-minute feature version of the 12-chapter Principal Pictures serial, based on the radio program...
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Chandu
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1934
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In this musical, a radio-announcer is fired after giving a false interview. For consolation he begins to drink heavily. It...
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1934
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The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie...
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Dr. Vitus Verdegast
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1934
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In this campy fantasy, Chandu the Magician returns and goes to the lost island of Lemuri. There he uses his mystical powers...
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1934
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Top-billed Bela Lugosi has only a minor role in this routine variant on the Old Dark House scenario, playing a mysterious...
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Degar
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1933
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1933
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Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is...
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1933
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With customary lack of restraint, Bela Lugosi tore into his role of Professor Strang, a foreign agent masquerading as a wax...
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1933
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The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused...
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1933
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While Tonart Studios is filming a gangster movie, one of the actors is killed in a shooting accident. After several other...
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Joseph Steiner
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1933
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In this haunting low-budgeter, Bela Lugosi stars as Murder Legendre, a shadowy character who exercises supernatural powers...
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Murder LeGrande
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1932
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Based on the radio serial of the same name, Chandu the Magician is a veritable rollercoaster ride of thrills and terror,...
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Roxor
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1932
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Sayer of the Law
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1932
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Dr. Mirakle
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1932
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In this comedy, a carefree carouser creates trouble for his cousin the chaperone as they go 'round the world. ~ Sandra...
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1931
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Actress Shelah Fane (Dorothy Revier) is in Honolulu to shoot a movie, but her chaotic personal life is keeping her from...
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Tarneverro
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1931
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Cole Porter's Broadway musical 50 Million Frenchmen was brought to the screen in 1931 with one minor alteration -- all of the...
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1931
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1931
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"I am....Drac-u-la. I bid you velcome." Thus does Bela Lugosi declare his presence in the 1931 screen version of Bram...
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Count Dracula
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1931
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In this action-adventure opus, Deucalion (Warner Baxter), Machwurth (Noah Beery), Mordiconi (C. Henry Gordon) and Biloxi...
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1930
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This sprightly romantic comedy chronicles the delightfully unlikely and tempestuous relationship between an opera diva and a...
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1930
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1930
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In this drama an unattractive, dour German businessman leaps out of a flying plane after learning that his wife only married...
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1930
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This early musical was filmed in color and centers upon the love affair between a young composer and the woman he wants to...
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1930
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This drama is set during Prohibition and follows the exploits of a spoiled brat with overly permissive parents. He soaks them...
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1930
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In this early talkie that contains very little talking, an Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief....
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Brottos, owener of a Vienna Nightclub
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1929
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Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks) directed this second film version of the Bayard Veiller play, which was his first...
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1929
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Emmett J. Flynn had directed everyone from William S. Hart to Laurel and Hardy by the time he wielded the megaphone for his...
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1928
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1928
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1925
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This melodrama, which starred Lila Lee, had quite a few names in the cast that were well known at the time but are largely...
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1925
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John Leslie (Conrad Nagel) and Craig Burnett (Antonio D'Algy) land their plane near a small Quebec town. Leslie becomes...
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Jean Gagnon
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1924
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Captain Richard Decatur (Edmund Lowe) is a young commander who is an undercover agent for the U.S. secret service. His ship...
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Hisston
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1923
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Released in two episodes ("Der Wildtöter und Chingachgook," "Der Letzte der Mohikaner") and produced in Germany by Luna Film...
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Chingachgook
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1920
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1920
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This German melodrama starring blonde bombshell Lee Parry is notable only for containing an early appearance of future horror...
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1920
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1917
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This interesting documentary is comprised of Lugosi appearances, outtakes, flubs, and trailers. ~ Rovi...
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This collection of short features is a must see for Bela Lugosi lovers. Included are a backyard interview with Lugosi from...
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Enjoy this collection of excerpts from "B" horror movies. ~ Rovi...
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