The Ghoul (1933)
Mar 20, 2013Resurrection/Old Dark House Thriller
Creaky but atmospheric British film where Boris Karloff dies but is brought back from the dead by an Egyptian jewel to stalk his heirs through a big old mansion
Cedric Hardwicke
Things to Come (1936)
Oct 9, 2003Building a Scientific Utopia
From a script by H.G. Wells, this comes with a visionary sweep that depicts the building of a scientific utopia but equally suffers from dull and heavy-handed polemical dialogue
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Jan 1, 2010Deformity/Historical Romance
The finest screen adaptation of Victor Hugo's oft-filmed historical novel. This is visually stunning and featuring an awards-worthy performance from Charles Laughton as the malformed Quasimodo
On Borrowed Time (1939)
Mar 30, 2002Man Captures Death
Unique light fantasy film in which aging Lionel Barrymore manages to imprison Death in a tree in his backyard
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Dec 9, 2000Universal Invisible Man Sequel
The second of Universal's Invisible Man films with Vincent Price inheriting the title role. Not quite as sublimely droll as James Whale's original, this still has some amusing comic moment and good effects
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Jul 30, 2000Universal Frankenstein Sequel
The fourth of Universal's Frankenstein films where Lon Chaney Jr inherits the role of the monster and makes it into a stumbling brute that lacks the pathos of Boris Karloff. The plot recycles what has now become the cliches of the series
Invisible Agent (1942)
Jul 27, 2017Invisible Spy
In the fourth entry in Universal's series of Invisible Man films, particularly in the effects department. here, made just after Pearl Harbor, The Invisible Man now becomes a spy fighting Nazi and Japanese villains
The Lodger (1944)
May 8, 2001Jack the Ripper Thriller
Sound remake of the silent Alfred Hitchcock film, starring big man Laird Cregar as the new lodger that a family believe might be Jack the Ripper. Cregar gives a wonderfully melodramatic performance
Personal Column (1947)
Jun 25, 2004Psycho-Thriller
Psycho-thriller with an unknown Lucille Ball as a showgirl used by Scotland Yard as a lure to trap a maniac killer
Rope (1948)
Apr 1, 2003Psycho-Thriller
Alfred Hitchcock conducts an experiment in shooting a film in only eight takes. Based on the true-life Leopold-Lowe case where two gay students murdered a child as an exercise in moral superiority.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)
Apr 27, 2003Modern Man Time Travels Back to Camelot
Adaptation of Mark Twain's classic about a modern man thrown back to the time of King Arthur. This has been made as a vehicle for Bing Crosby and makes for fairly excruciating viewing today
The Story of Mankind (1957)
Feb 18, 2010Heavenly Tribunal Judges Human History
Laughable Irwin Allen film that conducts a tour of human history via stock footage as Vincent Price's The Devil holds a heavenly tribunal to judge humanity for inventing the atomic bomb