Patric Knowles Archives

The Wolf Man (1941)

Rating: ★★

Feb 18, 2008Werewolf Film

Although it wasn't the first werewolf film, this is the one the created all the mythology of the werewolf film – full moons, silver bullets etc – while the wolfman went on to join the pantheon of Universal Famous Monsters.

Director: George Waggner

Actors: Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Maria Ouspenskaya, …

Category: Horror

18 February 200812 June 2025 by Roog

The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)

Rating: ★★

Jun 14, 2016Murder Mystery/Mad Scientist

One of the mad scientist films of the era – or perhaps more correctly a murder mystery/comedy with an identity disorder. This features an amazing cast, including bad guy Lionel Atwill as a sinister doctor and Shemp Howard, of Three Stooges fame, as a comic-relief detective

Director: William Nigh

Actors: Patric Knowles, Anne Gwynne, Mantan Moreland, Samuel S. Hinds, …

Category: Horror

14 June 201628 March 2025 by Roog

Tarzan’s Savage Fury (1952)

Rating: ★★

Apr 10, 2019Jungle Hero

Fourth of the Lex Barker Tarzan films. Barker is less stiff in the role but this is otherwise as formulaic as they come. The distinction this has is that it is one of the few films that mention Tarzan's origins and that it features a Communist villain

Director: Cy Endfield

Actors: Lex Barker, Dorothy Hart, Patric Knowles

Category: Fantasy

10 April 201927 December 2021 by Roog

Terror in the Wax Museum (1973)

Rating: ★

Jul 18, 1999Wax Museum Murders

Creaky old film that feels like it belongs in the 1940s about a series of murders at a wax museum. It does have a great cast line-up of genre veterans

Director: Georg Fenady

Actors: Ray Milland, Elsa Lanchester, John Carradine, Broderick Crawford, …

Category: Horror

18 July 199910 April 2025 by Roog

Arnold (1973)

Rating: ★★

Oct 21, 2020Old Dark House Comedy-Thriller

Comedy-thriller in the Old Dark House tradition with greedy relatives being bumped off in the fight for the will. A film that begins with a corpse getting married can't be all bad.

Director: Georg Fenady

Actors: Stella Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Farley Granger, …

Category: Horror

21 October 202019 November 2025 by Roog