Movies by Boris Karloff
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The Walking Dead / Frankenstein: 1970 (2009)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Don "Red" Barry, Jana Lund …
Directed by: Michael Curtiz, Howard W. Koch
In "The Walking Dead," a man resurrected from the grave seeks revenge on the gangsters responsible for his death, and in "Frankenstein 1970," a descendant of the infamous inventor creates his…
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You'll Find Out / Zombies on Broadway (2009)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Kay Kyser …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas, David Butler
In the mystery You'll Find Out, a musician encounters dodgy characters when he performs at an eerie manor house, and in the comedy Zombies on Broadway, two hapless publicists try to…
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Extreme Fairy Tales (2004)
Cast: Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff narrates Hans Christian Andersen's enchanting tale "The Emperor's Nightingale" and famed animator (and one-time Walt Disney employee) Ub Iwerks directs "The Brementown…
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The Terror / The Little Shop of Horrors (2002)
Cast: Jackie Joseph, Boris Karloff, Jonathan Haze …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Helmed by B-movie king Roger Corman, this pair of classic 1960s chillers features a young Jack Nicholson. In The Terror, Nicholson plays a Napoleonic soldier looking into eerie events at a…
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100 Years of Horror (1996)
Cast: Christopher Lee, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert De Niro …
Directed by: Ted Newsom
From Frankenstein to Freddie Kruger, Hollywood's horror genre is honored in this documentary hosted by veteran spook star Christopher Lee. The film encapsulates the history of the genre,…
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Grampa's Monster Movies (1990)
Cast: Al Lewis, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi …
Old school is definitely in session when Grampa Munster (Al Lewis), star of television's "The Munsters," hosts this fright-filled tribute to classic movie horror greats Frankenstein,…
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Blood Flood (1974)
Cast: Boris Karloff
Horror movie queen Morella presents three classic flicks that make for a truly frightening triple feature. Grave of the Vampire follows a mother who raises her vampire son to kill the…
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Dance of Death (1968)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Andres Garcia, Julissa …
Directed by: Juan Ibanez, Jack Hill
Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the man's will. There, they encounter a sinister piano player who, secretly, is also a toy maker. But, far…
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Targets (1968)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Tim O'Kelly, Peter Bogdanovich …
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Mild-mannered Bobby Thompson collects firearms and thinks murderous thoughts, which translate into action when he becomes a deadly sniper, picking off drivers on the L.A. freeway. Meanwhile,…
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Snake People (1968)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East …
Directed by: Jack Hill, Juan Ibanez
In one of his last movies, Boris Karloff plays the part of the mysterious Mr. Van Molder, a scientist turned voodoo priest who lives -- and experiments -- on the remote island of Coaibi. This…
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Chamber of Fear (1968)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East …
Directed by: Jack Hill
When he realizes that the intelligent, telepathic rock formation he's discovered feeds on a chemical that humans produce when scared, Dr. Carl Mandel (Boris Karloff) creates the chamber…
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The Crimson Cult (1968)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Mark Eden …
Directed by: Vernon Sewell
Robert Manning (Mark Eden) searches for his vanished brother in a rural English village, where he is entangled in the legend of Lavinia (Barbara Steele), a witch killed 300 years ago.…
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Mad Monster Party (1967)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett …
Directed by: Jules Bass
Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller lend their vocal talents to this bizarre stop-motion animated parody of horror films. Dr. Frankenstein makes plans for his retirement and convenes a meeting…
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Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Thurl Ravenscroft, June Foray …
Directed by: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam
Animator Chuck Jones collaborated with Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) to bring his classic children's book to life. Embittered, green-haired hermit the Grinch (voiced by Boris Karloff)…
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Die Monster Die! (1965)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer …
Directed by: Daniel Haller
A wheelchair-bound English scientist (Boris Karloff) who acquired mysterious powers from a radioactive meteorite entertains a young American visitor (Nick Adams) with tea, terror and his…
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Die, Monster, Die! / The Dunwich Horror: Double Feature (1965)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Sandra Dee …
Directed by: Daniel Haller
Horror icon Boris Karloff stars as a scientist who's simply mad over mutation in the first of two spine-tinglers based on stories by H.P. Lovecraft. In Die, Monster, Die, a man discovers…
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Mondo Balordo (1964)
Cast: Boris Karloff
Horror icon Boris Karloff narrates this trippy thrill ride through the fringes of society circa 1964, with documentary footage of transvestites, lesbian bars, Japanese bondage and more taboo…
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Primitive Love / Mondo Balordo: Double Feature (1964)
Cast: Jayne Mansfield, Boris Karloff
Silver-screen icons Jayne Mansfield and Boris Karloff headline this pair of bizarre films for a one-of-a-kind double feature. In Primitive Love, Mansfield stars as an unlikely anthropologist…
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The Terror (1963)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Lt. Andre Duvalier (played by a very young Jack Nicholson) is an officer in Napoleon's army. When he pursues a mysterious woman into the castle of an elderly baron (Boris Karloff), he…
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Black Sabbath (1963)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Michèle Mercier …
Directed by: Mario Bava
In this 1963 trilogy of chilling tales, a beautiful woman's ex-lover terrorizes her, a father returns home a vampire, and a ghost haunts a nurse. The vampire story -- probably the most…
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The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff …
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
A financial crisis forces undertaker Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) to start taking extreme measures. Rather than waiting for new clients to show up naturally, Waldo and his assistant (Peter…
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The Raven (1963)
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Roger Corman directs this hoot of a film featuring Dr. Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price), a washed-up sorcerer who turns a talking raven back into a man and learns that his presumed-dead wife is…
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Jack Nicholson: Cult Classics (1960)
Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles …
Directed by: Roger Corman, Richard Rush
L.A.'s No. 1 Lakers fan -- Jack Nicholson -- stars in a clutch of cult classics that have had audiences shuddering (and howling with laughter) for years. In Little Shop of Horrors,…
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Thriller (1960)
Cast: Boris Karloff
The legendary Boris Karloff serves as host for this vintage television series, which began as an anthology of crime dramas and mysteries but later morphed into chilling tales of the…
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Corridors of Blood (1958)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Betta St. John, Finlay Currie …
Directed by: Robert Day
In the days before anesthesia, surgeon Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff) experiments on himself with a newly discovered gas in this classic horror thriller. The good doctor soon becomes…
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Destination Nightmare (1958)
Cast: Whit Bissell, Boris Karloff, Patrick Macnee …
Directed by: Paul Landres
The great Boris Karloff hosts these four supernatural spookers made for the never-aired television show "The Veil," including "What Happened to Peggy," "The Return of Madame Vernoy,"…
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The Haunted Strangler (1957)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Antonio Margheriti, Jean Kent …
Directed by: Robert Day
Set in 19th-century London, this film includes the venerable Boris Karloff as novelist James Rankin, a man who develops an obsession with the famous serial killer the Haymarket Strangler. As…
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Voodoo Island / The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake: Double Feature (1957)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Beverly Tyler …
Directed by: Edward L. Cahn, Reginald Le Borg
In the first of these B-horror flicks, Voodoo Island, Boris Karloff leads an investigation into mysterious disappearances on an island that's the site for a future resort. But after…
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Tales of Frankenstein / The Terror: Double Feature (1954)
Cast: Raymond Greenleaf, Don Megowan, Helen Westcott …
Directed by: Michael Carreras, Curt Siodmak, Roger Corman …
In the first half of this double bill, Helen Westcott stars as the grief-stricken widow of a recently deceased sculptor whose brain the mysterious Dr. Frankenstein (Anton Diffring) uses to…
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The Island Monster (1954)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi, Patrizia Remiddi …
Directed by: Roberto Bianchi Montero
Things turn personal for a narcotics detective when the drug-smuggling gang he's investigating kidnaps his young daughter in retaliation and whisks her away to the remote island they use…
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Island Monster / Chamber of Fear (1953)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Yerye Beirute, Giulio Battiferri …
Directed by: Jack Hill, Juan Ibanez, Roberto Bianchi Montero …
Boris Karloff stars in this ghoulish double feature. In Island Monster, a beautiful and superficially idyllic island is not what it appears to be, as its denizens soon discover. It seems evil…
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Sabaka (1953)
Cast: Reginald Denny, June Foray, Victor Jory …
After his sister and brother-in-law are murdered, young elephant trainer Gunga Ram (Nino Marcel) seeks revenge against the wicked Ashok (Victor Jory) and the high priestess of Sabaka (June…
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The Black Castle (1952)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Richard Greene, Stephen McNally …
Directed by: Nathan Juran
Horror icon Boris Karloff -- best known for his portrayals of Frankenstein's monster and Im-ho-tep the mummy -- takes on a wide variety of roles in this collection of classics. In the…
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Cast: John Carradine, Charles Taylor, Boris Karloff …
Directed by: Herbert B. Swope Jr., Max Liebman, Giuseppe Vari …
Venture around the world and into the past with three adventures based on Mark Twain and Jack London classics: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's…
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The Sting of Death / The Man Who Disappeared (1951)
Cast: John Longden, Boris Karloff, Campbell Singer …
Directed by: Daniel Petrie, Richard M. Grey
Beloved by movie fans the world over for decades, brainy sleuth Sherlock Holmes has been brought to the screen by a gallery of directors and stars, and in treatments that range from the…
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Lured (1947)
Cast: Alan Mowbray, Boris Karloff, Charles Coburn …
Directed by: Douglas Sirk
A movie star long before she became small screen's darling, Lucille Ball headlines this 1947 London-set mystery (directed by melodrama master Douglas Sirk) as an American dance hall girl…
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Unconquered (1947)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva …
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Director Cecil B. DeMille's sprawling historical epic stars Gary Cooper as Capt. Christopher Holden, who's charged with defending Pennsylvania's Fort Pitt from an Indian leader…
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Val Lewton: Isle of the Dead / Bedlam (1945)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Anna Lee …
Directed by: Mark Robson
This double feature stars legendary horror film icon Boris Karloff. In Isle of the Dead (1945), a Greek island is quarantined with the plague -- trapping residents with a demon vampire. In…
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House of Frankenstein (1944)
Cast: Boris Karloff, J. Carrol Naish, Lon Chaney Jr. …
Directed by: Erle C. Kenton
An evil scientist and his hunchbacked flunky pose as traveling horror-show carnies -- a perfect cover for their diabolical dealings, which include resurrecting a monster creation. Things get…
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The Climax / The Strange Door (1944)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey …
Directed by: George Waggner, Joseph Pevney
Horror icon Boris Karloff -- best known for his portrayals of Frankenstein's monster and Im-ho-tep the mummy -- takes on a wide variety of roles in this collection of classics. In The…
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Val Lewton: I Walked with a Zombie / The Body Snatcher (1943)
Cast: James Ellison, Boris Karloff, Frances Dee …
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise
Famed RKO Radio Pictures producer Val Lewton managed to single-handedly redefine the horror genre in the 1940s, cranking out low-budget, high-volume box office hits that rarely disappointed…
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The Devil Commands (1941)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Amanda Duff …
Directed by: Edward Dmytryk
A dedicated though slightly addled scientist (Boris Karloff) studies brain waves. After his wife dies in a car accident, a machine he's invented picks up her brain waves from beyond the…
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Boris Karloff: The Ape / British Intelligence (1940)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gertrude Hoffman …
Directed by: William Nigh, Terry O. Morse
Silver screen icon Boris Karloff stars in this double feature of film classics from 1940. In The Ape he's a mad scientist searching for a polio vaccine, preying on the spinal fluids of…
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Doomed to Die (1940)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers …
Directed by: William Nigh
When shipping baron Cyrus Wentworth is shot shortly after his flagship ocean liner is robbed and sunk, police captain Bill Street (Grant Withers) accuses Dick Fleming (William Stelling),…
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The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers …
Directed by: Nick Grinde
For years, the whereabouts of Dr. Leon Kravaal (Boris Karloff) -- a scientist who'd been looking into the power of cryogenics -- were a mystery. Written off for dead, the doctor is…
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Before I Hang / The Boogie Man Will Get You (1940)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes, Peter Lorre …
Directed by: Lew Landers, Nick Grinde
Horror maestro Boris Karloff stars in these two tales of terror. In Before I Hang, when a physician (Karloff) lands on death row for a mercy killing, he continues formulating his youth serum,…
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The Fatal Hour (1940)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers …
Directed by: William Nigh
While investigating a police detective's slaying alongside Capt. Bill Street (Grant Withers) and feisty female reporter Bobbie Logan (Marjorie Reynolds), James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff),…
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The Ape (1940)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell …
Directed by: William Nigh
Boris Karloff essays one of his more unusual roles in this chiller that finds him playing Dr. Adrian, a scientist obsessed with obtaining spinal fluid to concoct a homemade cure for polio,…
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Son of Frankenstein / Ghost of Frankenstein (1939)
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi …
Directed by: Rowland V. Lee
In Ghost of Frankenstein, the not-so-good doctor (Cedric Hardwicke) thinks his monster could be cured if he only had a normal brain … so, with Ygor's (Bela Lugosi) "help," he takes…
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Craig Reynolds, Grant Withers …
Directed by: William Nigh
Shortly after it was stolen by an anonymous thief, the priceless Eye of the Daughter of the Moon sapphire reappears in the home of a wealthy collector. But the jewel comes with a deadly curse…
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Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Cast: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi …
Directed by: Rowland V. Lee
When Wolf von Frankenstein (Basil Rathbone), son of the infamous madman, returns to the estate to claim his inheritance, he finds the deranged Ygor (Bela Lugosi) hiding in the castle with the…
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Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers …
Directed by: William Nigh
The exciting adventures of James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) continue in this unusual film that finds the Asian detective investigating the slaying of a Chinese princess who came to the U.S. to…
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Mr. Wong: The Detective/The Fatal Hour: Boris Karloff Double Feature (1938)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings …
Directed by: William Nigh
After scaring audiences to death as Dr. Frankenstein's menacing monster, Boris Karloff donned a more approachable persona as Mr. Wong, a Chinese detective reminiscent of the star of the…
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Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings …
Directed by: William Nigh
The first in Monogram's series starring Boris Karloff as Chinese PI James Lee Wong, this mystery finds panicked industrialist Simon Dayton (John Hamilton) begging the intellectual…
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Night Key / Tower of London (1937)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Jean Rogers, Warren Hull …
Directed by: Lloyd Corrigan, Rowland V. Lee
Horror icon Boris Karloff -- best known for his portrayals of Frankenstein's monster and Im-ho-tep the mummy -- takes on a wide variety of roles in this collection of classics. In Night…
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The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder …
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Scientist Dr. Laurience (Boris Karloff) has colleagues who respect his work and value his research. But when they suddenly snub the extensive work he's recently done, this causes him to…
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The Invisible Ray / Black Friday (1936)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges …
Directed by: Lambert Hillyer, Arthur Lubin
This chilling Bela Lugosi double feature delivers the frights. In The Invisible Ray, a scientist (Boris Karloff) is handed the ultimate challenge when his research becomes secondary to basic…
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Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Cast: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke …
Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone
Screen legend Boris Karloff stars as former opera star Gravelle, now confined to an insane asylum. Seeking revenge on his wife, Gravelle escapes with plans of a murderous rampage at the opera…
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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson …
Directed by: James Whale
After vowing to step away from his dark experiments, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) is blackmailed into creating another fiend (Elsa Lanchester) -- this time, in female form -- who will…
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The Black Room / The Man They Couldn't Hang (1935)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen …
Directed by: Roy William Neill, Nick Grinde
Sophisticated horror maestro Boris Karloff stars in these two tales of terror. Anton (Karloff) is a cruel despot who murders his enemies and dumps their bodies in the titular "black room."…
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The Lost Patrol (1934)
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford …
Directed by: John Ford
Set in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I, John Ford's remake tells the struggles of a British cavalry sergeant (Victor McLaglen) and his troops. After the unit's commander…
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The Ghoul (1933)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger …
Directed by: T. Hayes Hunter
Professor Morlant (Boris Karloff), a British Egyptologist, finds a magic jewel in the tomb of an Oriental idol. The talisman is supposed to grant immortality to those who are buried with it.…
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The Mummy (1932)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners …
Directed by: Karl Freund
When British archaeologists uncover the ancient sarcophagus of a mummified Egyptian priest (Boris Karloff), they foolishly ignore its warning not to open the box. Now brought back to life,…
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The Old Dark House (1932)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton …
Directed by: James Whale
The director and star of 1931's Frankenstein reunite for this classic creepy-family black comedy. When stranded motorists arrive at a misty Welsh mansion, they find a family of fanatics,…
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Murders in Rue Morgue / The Black Cat / The Raven (1932)
Cast: Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Waycoff …
Directed by: Robert Florey, Edgar Ulmer, Louis Friedlander …
Three creepy tales are brought to life -- or, more appropriately, death -- in this frightening collection featuring the genius of Bela Lugosi. In Murders in the Rue Morgue, an evil scientist…
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Scarface (1932)
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley …
Directed by: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson
Mobster Tony Camonte (Paul Muni) seizes control of Chicago's bootlegging racket in this classic crime drama, which also stars George Raft, Boris Karloff and Osgood Perkins (Anthony…
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The Bela Lugosi Collection (1932)
Cast: Sidney Fox, Bela Lugosi, Leon Waycoff …
Directed by: Robert Florey, Edgar Ulmer, Louis Friedlander …
Discover why Bela Lugosi was the camp-horror king in this anthology that features some of his most underrated roles, including a mad scientist who experiments on Parisian lovelies and a…
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Tonight or Never (1931)
Cast: Gloria Swanson, Melvyn Douglas, Warburton Gamble …
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Silent screen superstar Gloria Swanson makes her transition into talkies here as aspiring opera singer Nella Vago in this classic from director Mervyn le Roy (Little Caesar). Although Nella…
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Frankenstein / Bride of Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection (1931)
Cast: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles …
Directed by: James Whale
In Frankenstein, a mad scientist (Colin Clive) creates a monster (the inimitable Boris Karloff) but errs by giving him a criminal brain. In Bride of Frankenstein, the superior and very witty…
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Vanishing Legion (1931)
Cast: Harry Carey Sr., Edwina Booth, William Desmond …
Directed by: Ford Beebe, B. Reeves Eason
With the aid of his volatile stallion Rex and oil rigger Happy Cardigan (Harry Carey Sr.), young Jimmie Williams (Frankie Darro) tracks the Vanishing Legion, a gang that framed his father…
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Frankenstein (1931)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, John Boles …
Directed by: James Whale
Unbeknownst to his fiancée (Mae Clarke), young scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) -- aided by his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye) -- has been building a monster…
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King of the Wild: The Complete Serial (1931)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Walter Miller, Nora Lane …
Directed by: B. Reeves Eason, Richard Thorpe
This vintage 12-part serial follows adventurer Robert Grant (Walter Miller), who escapes from an Indian prison, travels to Africa, teams with winsome Muriel Armitage (Nora Lane) to locate her…
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Two Arabian Knights (1927)
Cast: William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim …
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Set during World War I, this quirky silent comedy from director Lewis Milestone (who won an Oscar) chronicles the adventures of incessantly bickering American soldiers W. Dangerfield Phelps…
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The Bells (1926)
Cast: Fred Warren, Lola Todd, Eddie Phillips …
Directed by: James Young
An ambitious innkeeper (Lionel Barrymore) murders a wealthy traveler to settle his debts. Although no one suspects the innkeeper of the crime, he's haunted by a hypnotist from a…