Edward Van Sloan

The third entry into the Born to Lose video mixtape series, once again packed to the brim with dumb videos and childish humor.

Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a character portrayed by Lon Chaney, Jr. Monster by Moonlight! explores these movies. Rick Baker explains how the make-up was done on Chaney's character. Screenwriter Curtis Siodmak took very little from earlier werewolf legends, providing his own story for some of the films. This documentary displays clips from several other movies, including "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" (1948) and "House of Dracula" (1945).

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.

A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.

A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment.

Not a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released to TV in 1949.

A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.

A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.

A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations.

A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbed and all its money taken. The Three Mesquiteers ride into town and set out to help.

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of blithely assuming that every German-American is a fifth columnist. Which is exactly what rancher Clem Parker (Hal Price) does when learning that a couple of escaped Axis war criminals may be heading towards the local valley.

Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.

Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant Chromite plant is working full blast to supply the United Nations with the precious war-metal. This is the story of that mine and the people working it in a land the law forget, but the evil and devious Nazis remembered.

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.

Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States.

Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.

A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.

Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).

The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.

Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.

On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...

과학자인 제프리는 휴가 중, 반 헬싱 교수가 살인 혐의로 스코틀랜드 법정에 기소되었다는 소식을 드고 반 헬싱 교수를 만나게 되는데, 그로부터 뱀파이어에 관한 얘기를 듣고, 존경하는 교수를 구하기 위해 백방으로 노력한다. 그러던중 매력적인 여인 잘레스키 백작 부인을 알게되는데, 이후에 발생하는 기괴한 사건때문에 백작 부인이 뱀파이어 임을 알게된다. 한편 제프리를 사랑하게 된 흡혈귀 잘레스키는 제프리를 유인하기 위해 그의 여비서를 납치해가는데...

A crusading young reporter planning a series of articles about a corrupt politician is framed for a crime and sentenced to serve five years at a prison farm.

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.

In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.

In a 16th-century European town, the ruling family has been given a prophecy that, should there ever be twin boys born, the younger will murder the older; so is dismayed when twins are born to the popular baron. The older grows to be a selfish, slovenly man, who inherits the castle at his father's death and becomes ruler over the formerly happy villagers. He enjoys his power until he learns his younger brother is returning from abroad and, afraid of the prophecy, he determines to murder his sibling, hide his body in the "black room" - an old torture chamber sealed away behind the fireplace - and then impersonate him, right down to his withered arm. In this way he hopes to not only avoid the prophecy, but also escape consequences of his other criminal deeds and obtain marriage to a local girl of the nobility...

Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.

A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.

Zenas Brewster is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten with neighbor Abbie Howland, but she doesn't like his temperament. After a period of retirement, a bad investment puts Brewster back at work on the sea. And when fire overtakes his ship, Hurricane proves heroic, selflessly rescuing his crew from a grisly and deadly fate.

A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.

An amateur sleuth solves three murders at his son's New England college.

An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.

Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After circumstances force Jean and Jim to spend a night together in his cabin, she begins questioning her family’s ruthless tactics. This hard-to-see Columbia film by British director Roy William Neill not only features Wray as a brunette but also includes an explosive depiction of labor strife. (Block Cinema)

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the school football team, he meets his match in school-teacher Anne Barry.

A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman and his career ascends, but he secretly continues the relationship with his true love.

18세기 러시아 왕실의 성과 배신을 신랄하게 묘사...프러시아의 어린 공주 소피아는 러시아 여왕의 조카이자 정신박양아 공작인 피터와의 결혼을 위해 러시아로 향한다. 거만한 여왕은 왕실의 피가 지속되길 바라지만 소피아는 정박아인 남편을 혐오한다. 그러나 러시아와 러시아 군대를 좋아하는 소피아는 자신의 임무에 충실히 아들을 순산한다. 누구의 아들인지 알 수 없는 왕손이지만 어느 누구하나 개의치 않는데... 시간이 흘러 여왕이 죽은 후, 소피아는 남편 피터를 몰아내고 여왕에 군림한다.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Former lovers get together to clear themselves when the police suspect them of murder.

A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.

뉴욕을 무대로 한 최초의 재난영화로 대홍수가 일어나 뉴욕 도시 전체가 파괴된다.

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.

An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.

A magician is accused of killing his female assistant.

A successful shoe manufacturer named John Reeves goes on vacation and meets the grown children of his recently deceased and much-respected competitor; they're on the verge of losing the family legacy through their careless behavior. Reeves takes it upon himself to save his rival's company by teaching the heirs a lesson in business.

This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.

An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative publicity, one of the writers tags along as the killing is investigated and clues begin to surface.

A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.

Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.

Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama, in which she plays Susan, the unhappy wife of oil rigger Walt (Charles Bickford), who labors in a Central American oil field. The bored Susan falls in love with Walt's good friend Ken (Paul Lukas) but keeps her husband in the dark about her feelings... until he's plunged into darkness for real when he loses his eyesight. Susan finds her attentions then wandering yet another man, Davis (Ralph Forbes), and Ken urges her to return to Walt.

A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.

1921년 이집트의 유적발굴 현장에서 미이라 하나가 발견된다. 그것은 신성모독을 이유로 사형선고를 받고 생매장되었던 이집트 왕자 이모텝의 미이라였다. 또한 그의 무덤에서는 죽은 사람을 부활시키는 주문이 적힌 토드신의 두루마리도 함께 발견된다. 어느날 밤 발굴단원 중 한 젊은이가 호기심을 이기지 못하고 두루마리의 내용을 낭독하게 되고, 그로 인해 자신이 이모텝을 부활시켰음을 알게 되면서 정신착란을 일으키고 만다. 10년 후, 이모텝의 미이라는 보통의 이집트 사람처럼 분장한 채 살아가고 있다. 그는 고대에 자신의 연인이었던 아낙수나문 공주와 만나려 하고 있었는데, 그녀는 현재 아름다운 여인으로 환생해 있었다.

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her family out of its financial bind, she is ready to do both after she shows up at the penthouse pool bash of a wealthy playboy.

야심에 가득 찬 젊은 과학자 ‘프랑켄슈타인’은 곱추인 조수 ‘프리츠’와 함께 시체의 신체부위들을 절단해 괴물 인조인간을 만드는 실험을 계속한다. 한편, 프랑켄슈타인의 약혼녀인 ‘엘리자베스’는 약혼자가 시계탑 안에서 하고 있는 이상한 실험에 대해 불안해 하다, 실험을 막기 위해 의대 교수인 발드만 박사와 함께 시계탑을 찾아간다. 하지만 그녀가 도착했을 때, 번개를 맞은 괴물이 생명을 얻게 된다. 약혼녀의 설득에, 프랑켄슈타인은 괴물을 시계탑 속에 가두고, 약혼녀에게 돌아간다. 한편, 범죄자의 뇌가 이식된 괴물은 증오와 살인 욕구에 불타올라 조수인 프리츠를 살해한 후 마을을 찾아간다. 괴물의 위협이 커져가자 마을 사람들과 ‘프랑켄슈타인’은 괴물을 쫓기 시작한다. 그리고 ‘프랑켄슈타인’은 괴물과 낡은 풍차에서 마주친다. 두 사람의 대결에서 ‘프랑켄슈타인’은 간신히 목숨을 건지지만, 마을 사람들은 프랑켄슈타인이 갇힌 풍차에 불을 지른다

동유럽의 카르파티아 산중에 드라큘라 백작이 살고 있다. 런던에 있는 카팩스 수도원 양도 문제 때문에 그를 찾아가는 한 신사에게, 마을 사람들은 드라큘라가 흡혈귀라며 위험하니 가지 말라고 극구 말린다. 하지만 렌필드가 약속 때문에 가야 한다고 단호히 말하자, 한 노파가 그를 보호해줄 물건이라며 십자가를 쥐어준다. 겁도 없이 험난한 산길을 타고 허름하고 음산한 고성에 당도한 렌필드는 백작이 건네준 술을 마시고 정신을 잃는다. 드라큘라에게 피를 빨린 렌필드는 그에게 맹목적으로 복종하는 노예가 되어 함께 배를 타고 런던으로 향한다. 도중에 폭풍우를 만나 배는 난파되고 선원들은 모두 죽는다. 유일한 생존자 렌필드는 정신착란 상태로 발견돼 시워드 정신병원에 수감된다. 시워드 박사와 이웃이 된 드라큘라는 다음 희생타자로 박사의 딸 미나에게 눈독을 들인다. 시워드는 갑자기 쇠약해진 딸의 건강을 염려해 그 방면의 전문가인 홀란드의 밴 헬싱 교수를 초청해 도움을 청한다. 한편 미나의 친구인 루시가 원인 모를 과다출혈로 사망하고, 아이들이 습격을 당해 목을 물리는 사건이 발생한다. 최근 미나의 목에 생긴 자국과, 렌필드가 특정 약초에 대해 민감하게 반응하는 점, 그리고 드라큘라의 반영이 거울에 나타나지 않는 것과, 박쥐와 늑대의 출현 등을 종합해 미루어 헬싱은 백작의 정체를 의심하고 뱀파이어를 물리치기 위해 대책을 세운다. 미나의 약혼자 존 하커는 흡혈귀란 단지 허구 속 인물이라며 교수의 말을 웃어넘긴다. 그러다 정신병원을 탈출해 몰래 수도원으로 가는 렌필드를 뒤따라간 하커는 미나의 비명소리를 듣게 되는데... 순간 해가 떠오르고, 낮 동안 휴식을 취하고자 관 속으로 들어간 드라큘라를 찾아낸 교수는 심장에 말뚝을 박음으로써 그를 영구히 처치한다.

The wife of attorney John Blair (T. Jerome Lawler), heroine Helene (Kalich) finds herself in an untenable position when two of Blair's clients, Harry Carson (Robert Rendel)) and Richard Tremaine (Eugene Ormonde), both fall in love with her.