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Ghost of Frankenstein [VHS]

Ghost of Frankenstein [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Cedric Hardwicke , Lon Chaney Jr. , Ralph Bellamy , Lionel Atwill , Bela Lugosi
Director: Erle C. Kenton
The monster lives! Again! Picking up where Son of Frankenstein left off, Bela Lugosi's gnarled Ygor survives yet another rampage by angry, torch-carrying villagers and frees the monster (The Wolf Man himself, Lon Chaney Jr., taking over from Boris Karloff) from his sulfur grave. The latest cinematic Frankenstein scion, brain surgeon Ludwig (Cedric Hardwicke), wants to dissect the creature, but the ghost of his father convinces him to save it by giving it a new, "good" brain. Ygor has his own devious plan and enlists Ludwig's shady assistant (Lionel Atwill) in a brain-switching scheme.

Ably directed by the pedestrian Erle C. Kenton, The Ghost of Frankenstein gives up the gothic mood and moral quandaries of the original films for the busy, action-packed plots that defined Universal horror films of the 1940s. The human characters are all rather dull (except for Lugosi's animated, eye-rolling performance), and Chaney has none of Karloff's pathos or subtlety under the make-up, but the film opens with a spectacular bang as the villagers dynamite the castle, and skips from one inspired scene to another. The monster rejuvenates himself during an electrical storm w...
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Abbott & Costello: Hold That Ghost [VHS]

Abbott & Costello: Hold That Ghost [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Bud Abbott , Lou Costello , Richard Carlson , Joan Davis , Mischa Auer
Director: Arthur Lubin

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Wolf Man (1941) [VHS]

Wolf Man (1941) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Claude Rains , Warren William , Lon Chaney Jr. , Ralph Bellamy , Patric Knowles
Director: George Waggner
Wolf Man (1941) [VHS] (1941) Claude Rains (Actor), Warren William (Actor), George Waggner
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Black Beauty (1946) [VHS]

Black Beauty (1946) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Mona Freeman , Richard Denning , Evelyn Ankers , Charles Evans , J. M. Kerrigan
Director: Max Nosseck

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Captive Wild Woman [VHS]

Captive Wild Woman [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Acquanetta , John Carradine , Evelyn Ankers , Milburn Stone , Lloyd Corrigan
Director: Edward Dmytryk

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His Butler's Sister (B&W) [VHS]

His Butler's Sister (B&W) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Deanna Durbin , Franchot Tone , Pat O'Brien , Akim Tamiroff , Alan Mowbray
Director: Frank Borzage

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Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror [VHS]

Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Basil Rathbone , Nigel Bruce , Evelyn Ankers , Reginald Denny , Thomas Gomez
Director: John Rawlins

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Abbott & Costello: Hold That Ghost [VHS]

Abbott & Costello: Hold That Ghost [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Bud Abbott , Lou Costello , Richard Carlson , Joan Davis , Mischa Auer
Director: Arthur Lubin

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Sherlock Holmes: Pearl of Death [VHS]

Sherlock Holmes: Pearl of Death [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Basil Rathbone , Nigel Bruce , Dennis Hoey , Evelyn Ankers , Miles Mander
Director: Roy William Neill
Here is another strong entry (beautifully restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive) from the peak of Basil Rathbone's prolific, seven-year run as a definitive Sherlock Holmes for the big screen. In the gripping Pearl of Death (1944), a then-contemporary update (set in the World War II years, as with most of the Rathbone-Holmes features) of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Six Napoleons," a reluctant Holmes agrees to help a London museum recover a stolen, rare pearl. But the investigation takes a strange turn when the great detective and his sidekick, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), find their mystery linked to a series of odd murders involving the destruction of porcelain china. Typically, "Pearl of Death" has its share of inside jokes for true Sherlockians, including Holmes's declaration, "If I'm wrong, I'll move to Sussex and raise bees." Of course, that's exactly what Doyle's most famous character did upon retirement. --Tom Keogh
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Son of Dracula [VHS]

Son of Dracula [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Lon Chaney Jr. , Robert Paige , Louise Allbritton , Evelyn Ankers , Frank Craven
Director: Robert Siodmak
It was perhaps inevitable that, after playing the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's monster, and the Mummy, Lon Chaney Jr. would round out his horror resumé with a turn at the great bloodsucker himself (not, as the title would suggest, his son). Looking dapper and dignified under the cape, if not exactly threatening, Chaney plays Count Alucard (that's Dracula spelled backwards), a mysterious Carpathian summoned to America by a "morbid" heiress (Louise Allbritton). Eric Taylor's script is rather clunky, but the story (by horror specialist Curt The Wolfman Siodmak) is often quite clever, playing like a supernatural twist on a psycho-thriller. Allbritton's frustrated fiancé Robert Page accidentally "kills" her while trying to shoot Alucard (who imperiously stands up to the hail of bullets) and then goes stark raving mad as he watches the dead rise to life and the living disappear in wisps of smoke and morph into creaky stage bats.

Future film noir legend (and Curt's brother) Robert Siodmak (The Killers) does wonders with the swampy, misty Deep South setting despite his obviously threadbare budget, transforming the usual clichés into moments of inspired melodrama. ...
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