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1995
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1988
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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 inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah...
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Damballah
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1971
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One of four low-rent Mexican horror productions from the 1960s which featured an ailing Boris Karloff in supporting roles...
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Prof. John Meyer
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1968
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Byron Orlok
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1968
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A brilliant geologist sends a team to search the depths of the earth in an effort to learn the origin of some strange signals...
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Dr. Carl Mandel
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1968
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The only theatrical feature from Rankin/Bass -- the outfit behind countless animated holiday TV specials including Rudolph...
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1968
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In this spooky thriller, an evil sorcerer invites an innocent young man and his girl friend to his dark and scary mansion....
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Prof. Marshe
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1968
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This suspenseful drama chronicles political upheaval in Czechoslovakia. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1968
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One of four low-budget Mexican horror productions to star an ailing Boris Karloff in a supporting (but top-billed) role, this...
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1968
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Made by the then 23-year-old director Michael Reeves, who died after making only one more movie, the notable...
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Professor Marcus Montserrat
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1967
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1967
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In this spy thriller, Robert Vaughn, who then starring on TV's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., plays Bill Fenner, an ex-CIA agent...
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Dr. Pierre Vaugiroud
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1967
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The Rat
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1966
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American-International's Beach Party series came to an abrupt end with Ghost in the Invisible Bikini. Because of such...
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The Corpse
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1966
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Also known as Monster of Terror, this British-made horror opus is very loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Colour...
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Nahum Witley
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1965
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Chuck Jones' animated version of the classic Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas originally aired on television in...
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Narrator
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1965
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The excesses and eccentricities of the 20th century once again go under the cinematic microscope in this shockumentary...
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1964
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The Beach Party gang is back in this third episode. This time out, the gang is visited by the handsome British pop star...
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1964
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On the verge of bankruptcy, undertaker Vincent Price hits upon a novel method of drumming up business. Together with his...
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Amos Hinchley
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1964
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This anthology features three chilling horror stories. "Il Telefono" is credited to Guy de Maupassant, although he never...
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Gorca
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1963
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In this horror chiller, an intriguing, beautiful woman (Sandra Knight) keeps re-appearing to early 19th-century Lt. Duvalier...
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Baron Von Leppe
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1963
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Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales,...
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Dr. Scarabus
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1963
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This is one in a series of entertaining cinematic compilations by Robert Youngson that reviews aspects of the history of film...
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1961
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1961
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This dramatic presentation of "Treasure Island" was created specifically for television and includes all of the immortal...
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1960
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Host
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1960
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This enjoyably twisted British thriller was shot back-to-back with the equally warped Haunted Strangler and is one of the...
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Dr. Thomas Bolton
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1959
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1958
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1958
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There's a bit of Oedipus Rex in The Haunted Strangler, though it's not readily apparent at first. Boris Karloff plays...
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James Rankin
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1958
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The Veil, produced in 1958, was a made-for-television series of creepy, supernatural dramatizations hosted by Boris Karloff....
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1958
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This is one of the more off-beat entries into the Frankenstein sub-genre, in that it features the original Creature,...
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Baron Victor von Frankenstein
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1958
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Four terrifying stories from The Veil television series are introduced by Boris Karloff with titles "Summer Heat," "Vision of...
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1958
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Boris Karloff amiably walks through his undemanding starring role in Voodoo Island. Lensed in Hawaii, the film casts Karloff...
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Dr. Phillip Knight
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1957
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1957
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Cornell Woolrich, whose written works have served as the basis for many an Alfred Hitchcock production, was the author of...
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1956
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As originally broadcast on March 12, 1955, and directed by Max Liebman (Ten from Your Show of Shows), this feature-length...
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King Arthur
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1955
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Based on the stories by Carter Dickson, this series finds Boris Karloff portraying Colonel March, who works for the...
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Colonel March
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1954
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An elderly Boris Karloff headlines this low-budget Italian crime drama. He plays the owner of a financially struggling...
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1953
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This obscure Italian crime potboiler features a nominal performance from a slumming Boris Karloff as wealthy businessman Don...
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1953
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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Dr. Henry Jekyll,Mr. Hyde
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1953
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Filmed on location in India, The Hindu is an outgrowth of the "Gunga Ram" episodes originally seen on TV's Smilin' Ed's Gang...
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General Pollegar
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1953
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Boris Karloff returns to his old Universal stamping grounds in the mild horror item Black Castle. The plot is motivated by a...
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Dr. Meissen
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1952
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This murder mystery is comprised of three pilot episodes of a British television series. The story centers around the odd...
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Col. March
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1952
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The classic Mark Twain time travel fantasy comes to vivid life on the small screen in this television production starring...
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1952
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Voltan
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1951
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This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly...
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Swami Talpur
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1949
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Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state...
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Tishomingo
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1948
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The Emperor's Nightingale relates the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale through utilization of stop-motion puppet animation....
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Narrator [English version]
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1948
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Guyasuta, Chief of the Senecas
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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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Gruesome
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1947
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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1947
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James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,...
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Dr. Hugo Hollingshead
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1947
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Inspired by Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin's famous painting, this seminal horror film marked the first of three collaborations...
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Gen. Nikolas Pherides
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1945
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John Gray
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1945
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Master George Sims
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1945
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Dr. Hohner
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1944
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In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade "monster rallies" of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within...
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Dr. Gustav Niemann
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1944
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Prof. Nathaniel Billings
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1942
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Also known as When the Devil Commands, this cheap but lively Columbia melodrama was the last of Boris Karloff's "mad doctor"...
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Dr. Julian Blair
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1941
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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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Dr. Ernest Sovac
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1940
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In his final "Mr. Wong" mystery, Boris Karloff solves the case of who killed shipping magnate Cyrus P. Wentworth...
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James Lee Wong
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1940
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Man with Nine Lives (released in England as Behind the Door) is the second of Columbia's unofficial "Mad Doctor" series...
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Dr. Leon Kravaal
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1940
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Dr. Charles Gaudet
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1940
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The Fatal Hour was the fourth entry in Monogram's "Mr. Wong" series, based on the gentlemanly oriental detective created by...
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James Lee Wong
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1940
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Judge Mainwaring
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1940
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Condemned to death for a mercy killing, Dr. John Garth (Karloff) continues to experiment in prison to develop a serum that...
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Dr. John Garth
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1940
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This painfully-bad Monogram feature wastes the talents of two of horrordom's finest -- star Boris Karloff and co-writer...
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Dr. Bernard Adrian
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1940
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Though set during WW1, British Intelligence was obviously thrown together to capitalize on the outbreak of WW2. A remake of...
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Voldar
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1940
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The second film in the mystery series about a Chinese sleuth, this one concerns the theft of the "Eye of the Daughter of the...
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James Lee Wong
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1939
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly...
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Mord the Executioner
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1939
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The Monster
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1939
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A mysterious visitor is found murdered in Mr. Wong's study in this, the third of Monogram's low-budget thrillers, featuring...
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1939
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A scientist's greatest invention proves to be his darkest curse in this thriller that was part of Columbia and star...
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1939
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The first of six Mr. Wong whodunits, Mr. Wong Detective presented Boris Karloff as pulp writer Hugh Wiley's Oxford-educated...
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James Lee Wong
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1938
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Boris Karloff starred in this rather static whodunit from the Warner Bros. B-unit as Jeffries, a civilian employee at a...
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Jevries
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1938
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In this crime thriller, an old, ailing scientist has been robbed of the burglar alarm he invented by his partner, who owns a...
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Dave Mallory
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1937
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In this drama, the third remake of a popular play by Porter Emerson Browne, General Wu Yen Fang, "the White Tiger," is an...
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Gen. Wu Yen Fang
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1937
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Actual footage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics is rabbeted into the action of this superior Charlie Chan entry. Assigned by the...
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1937
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Gravelle
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1936
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This British programmer tells the dark, thrilling tale of a research scientist who resorts to murder to ensure continued...
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Dr. Sartorius
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1936
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Attractive scientist Dr. Clare Wyatt (Anna Lee) fondly declines the proposal of journalist Dick Haslewood (John Loder), who...
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Dr. Laurence
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1936
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1936
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In one of his most successful portrayals of a "living dead" man, Boris Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-convict who is framed...
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John Ellman
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1936
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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The Monster
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1935
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Edmond Bateman
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1935
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A curse pronounced upon land baron DeBerghmann has devastating long-range consequences for his twin sons Gregor and Anton....
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Baron Gregor de Berghmann
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1935
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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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Hjalmar Poelzig
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1929, Philip MacDonald's novel Patrol was lensed by director John Ford as The Lost Patrol in 1934....
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Sanders
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1934
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George Arliss plays Nathan Rothschild, the head of a family of celebrated 19th century Jewish bankers. Despite the...
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Count Ledrantz
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1934
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The Ghoul was Boris Karloff's first British horror film. Karloff is cast as Egyptologist Professor Morant, who on his...
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Prof. Morlant
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1933
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It's a wildly varied group that takes shelter from a raging English storm in the forbidding mansion of the Femm family. Among...
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Morgan
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1932
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Im-Ho-Tep/Ardeth Bey
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1932
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Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great...
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Gaffney
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1932
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Behind the Mask is a typically virile Jack Holt vehicle, with the hero at one point shooting himself in the arm to establish...
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Henderson
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1932
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This was the next-to-last entry of the Cohens and Kellys series, which were becoming increasingly more tiresome with each...
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1932
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Night World is an astonishingly compact 57-minute extravaganza, all of which takes place at the upscale (but somewhat...
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"Happy" MacDonald
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1932
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A San Francisco gangster hot foots it out of town to cool down after his crime boss is suddenly killed. He ends up in a...
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1932
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A Bavarian orphan, raised by a wealthy family, grows up to become a promising physician (Richard Barthelmess). Meanwhile, the...
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1932
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Very loosely based on Booth Tarkington's novel The Plutocrat, Business and Pleasure stars Will Rogers as Earl Tinker, a newly...
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1932
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Boris Karloff stars as the villainous Dr. Fu Manchu in this wild and wooly -- and wildly racist -- adventure yarn, based on...
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Dr. Fu Manchu
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1932
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In this romantic comedy, a milquetoast bookworm finds his life transformed when he takes the advice of a fortune teller and...
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1931
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In this drama, an eager-beaver cub reporter looking for the big scoop that will give him his big break is sent to interview...
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Joe Terry
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1931
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Adapted from the stage play by former newspaperman Louis Weitzenkorn, Five Star Final is an uncompromising look at the...
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1931
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In this war drama, two buddies in WW I return stateside. One of them becomes a police sergeant, but the other cannot find...
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1931
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1931
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Set in India, Arabia, and Darkest Africa, this 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial had been created for Harry Carey and...
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1931
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William Shakespeare's classic tragedy Romeo & Juliet is loosely adapted and modernized in director Rowland V. Lee's Guilty...
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Tony Ricca
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1931
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1931
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In this crime drama, a crime lord adopts the little brother of a slain colleague. Later a child-care inspector intervenes,...
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Cokey Joe
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1931
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1931
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Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown...
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The Monster
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1931
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Sport Williams
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1931
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Made to exploit the panic caused by Black Tuesday, this thriller centers on the attempts of a broker to prove that a...
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1931
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More of a follow-up than a sequel to 1931's popular Svengali, this drama centers on the attempts of a club-footed and...
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1931
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Two-reel comedy favorites Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made their feature-film debut (excluding their guest appearances in...
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1931
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Based upon a much-filmed play by Michael Morton (which may in turn have been based upon a story by Frank Harris, The Yellow...
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1931
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"Sea Bat" is another name for the poisonous sting rays that trouble swimmers in warmer ocean climes. The story is set upon a...
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1930
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Boris Karloff's appearance as an outlaw gives this minor Tiffany western its only claim to fame. Rex Lease, a general utility...
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1930
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In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While...
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1930
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The pain of raising children alone is presented in this tragedy that centers on the failure of a widowed mother of four...
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1930
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The seventh serial released by Nat Levine's penny-pinching but enterprising little Mascot Pictures, King of the Congo was...
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1929
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Irving Cummings was a good choice to direct this third Charlie Chan feature, the first to use sound, as he had previously...
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1929
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Victor Thorne's 1925 melodrama was turned into a low-budget film starring Shirley Mason four years later. Mason played the...
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1929
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Escaping from a revolution, the King (Joseph Swickard) of a mythical Balkan country heads to the United States. Here he finds...
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1929
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1929
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Produced and directed by Poverty Row entrepreneur Harry S. Webb, this very low-budget silent Northwest melodrama starred...
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1929
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A group of Londoners gather at the home of their host in order to solve the murders of two company officers. Once assembled...
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1929
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Viola Dana plays both of the title characters in Rayart's Two Sisters. One of the heroines is a daring female bandit, while...
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1929
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Boris Karloff played a red herring in this the final silent serial from chapter play specialist Mascot, who reportedly spared...
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1929
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One of the first serials produced by that future specialist of the genre, Mascot Pictures, the still-silent Vultures of the...
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1928
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Veteran serial star William Desmond takes the well-travelled Zorro route in this fine chapterplay released by Universal in 10...
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1928
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The Little Wild Girl is hoydenish French-Canadian lass Marie Celeste (Lila Lee). Assuming that her sweetheart Jules...
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Maurice Kent
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1928
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Remembered only for featuring one of Boris Karloff's many pre-Frankenstein supporting roles, The Phantom Buster was one of...
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1927
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Also known as The Princess From Hoboken, this is an amusing "B" picture with "A" aspirations. Hoping to improve his business,...
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1927
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1927
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1927
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James Pierce is one of the lesser-known film Tarzans, partly because this picture -- his debut as an actor -- has apparently...
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1927
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1927
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The Love Mart was based on The Code of Victor Jallot, an adventure yarn by Edward Childs Carpenter. The story is set in Old...
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1927
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Douglas MacLean, who made his mark during the 1920s as a light comedian, stars as a Marine sergeant in this comedy-drama,...
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1927
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Long derided by film historians as a talented but visually unimaginative director, James Cruze made up for any and all past...
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1926
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1926
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Mae Murray hid her blonde tresses under a black wig to play the Spanish heroine of Valencia. A singer-dancer in a smoky...
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1926
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This melodrama -- one of the last gasps from Associated Exhibitors -- features an excellent cast, with Jean Hersholt taking...
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1926
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Adele Fenway (Pauline Frederick) is Her Honor the Governor in this complex silent drama. Upon winning the gubernatorial...
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1926
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This typical Hoot Gibson Western starred the rumpled cowboy as Jeff Morgan, Jr., the son of a famous outlaw...
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1926
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1926
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The silent era's foremost comedienne, Mabel Normand, plays a taxi dancer in this 2-reel farce produced by Hal Roach. In order...
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1926
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Socialite Ruth Rowan (Lillian Rich) is trapped in The Golden Web when she falls in love with the Wrong Man. Betrayal and...
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Dave Sinclair
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1926
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Eagle of the Sea is based on Charles Tenney Jackson's swashbuckling novel Captain Sazarac. Ricardo Cortez stars as Sazarac, a...
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1926
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1926
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The United States had just finished building a fleet of very fast ships to catch the rumrunners that brought prohibition...
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Pietro Castellano
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1925
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Silent screen comedienne Dorothy Devore left comedy producer Al Christie with hopes of going dramatic. She succeeded -- at...
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1925
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The performance of the up-and-coming Renée Adorée stands out in this routine melodrama. In fact, she overshadows the two...
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Pierre
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1925
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The title to this picture came from a Rudyard Kipling poem, and accurately reflected the attitude of Victorian and...
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1925
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Evelyn Brent takes on a Douglas Fairbanks Sr.-type role in this action-adventure film. Senorita Catalina (Brent), the ward of...
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Ccibraza
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1925
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A young man's jealousy causes him to rapidly rise from humble laborer to world heavyweight champion in this campy silent...
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1924
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Lower-echelon cowboy star J.B. Warner played a cowboy saving a girl's ranch from a scheming woman known as "The Hellion" in...
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1924
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B-Western regulars Jack Perrin and Marilyn Mills starred in this obscure, low-budget Western serial released in 15 chapters....
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1924
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It seems like nearly everything written by George Barr McCutcheon found its way to the silent screen. Castle Craneycrow was...
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1923
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Although portraying a doughboy in this comedy-adventure seems like a stretch for cowboy star Hoot Gibson, it really isn't --...
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1923
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Popular Universal leading man Frank Mayo is put through his customary paces in The Altar Stairs. Mayo plays a rugged ship's...
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1922
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Earle Williams, known for his manly, often dignified, characters, was well cast in this mystery, which keeps the audience...
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1922
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There's nothing really exceptional about this progammer, which takes a pair of society people and places them at the mercy...
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1922
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A beautiful woman is imprisoned when she refuses to join a Shah's harem because she loves another. Shireen...
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1922
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The career of actress Katherine MacDonald was already suffering when she starred as the unappealing title character of this...
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1922
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This film about Omar Khayyam, author of The Rubaiyat, was adapted from the stage play by Richard Walton Tully with mixed...
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1922
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Although the story to this drama -- based on the novel, Barry Gordon, by William F. Payson -- was ludicrous, female filmgoers...
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1921
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Ahmed Khan
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1921
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A typical blood-and-thunder melodrama, this independently produced serial by Kosmik Films starred actor/stunt man Harry...
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1921
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This light comedy was the film debut of English stage actress Teddy Gerard. She plays Margot, a girl who has had a primitive...
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1921
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Maurice Tourneur was the original director on the 1920 silent version of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, but he...
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1920
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All the elements are here that one would expect from a picture based on a story by James Oliver Curwood: it takes place in...
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1920
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After her father's death, Mary Willard (Blanche Sweet) successfully takes charge of his business. Her only problem is the...
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1920
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1919
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In what many reviewers considered her best serial, Pearl White played the title-role of The Lightning Raider, a fearless...
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1919
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John Maude (William Desmond) was working for his uncle, but has just been fired because he overstayed his vacation when he...
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1919
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Dumb Girl of Portici is famous today as the film in which Boris Karloff made his movie debut. This "fact" is open to debate:...
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1916
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Warner Brothers was one of the big studios of the 30s and had many talented performers under contract. See some of their...
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