Evelyn Ankers

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 dentist and his wife join Christian missionaries for duty in Africa.

A western in which Calamity Jane's (Evelyn Ankers) rightful ownership of a gambling hall is challenged. She nearly loses the business to a shady crook, but Texas lawyer Ellison puts up a legal battle to help her stay in charge. After a sensational fight, the letters proving her right are discovered.

Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a poisonous snake--the deadly swamp adder. Filmed on the expensive sets leftover from the movie Joan of Arc at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City and produced for the "Your Show Time" series, the short has been released as a solo feature on many DVDs that chronicle classic Sherlock Holmes films..

An expedition tries to enlist Tarzan's help in finding the secret Blue Valley, which legend says is the location of a miraculous fountain of youth.

A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.

Michael Lanyard (Gerald Mohr) is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned by a member of the nobility to help the latter raise money to pay a blackmailer. Lanyard later finds evidence to reveal the diamonds as having been stolen by a famous stage star.

A family-oriented adaption of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." As the French-Indian War rages across the untamed territory of the Great Northwest, the embattled wilderness gives birth to a legend -- the proud legend of "The Last of the Red Men." August, 1757, General Montcalm and his Iroquois alalies are on the war path -- and General Munro fears for the lives of his children as they travel to join him at Fort William Henry. Although Munro dispatches a letter urging them to take refuge at Fort Edward until the road is safe, an Iroquois scout intercepts the warning. So Major Duncan Hayward, handsomely portrayed by Jon Hall, is unaware of the danger as he escorts Alice Munro (Evelyn Ankers), her sister Cora (Julie Bishop), and her young brother Davy (Buzz Henry) from the sanctuary of the fort. When their guide Magua, a vengeful Iroquois played by Buster Crabbe, betrays them, only one man can save the travelers from his savage trap. Starring Jon Hall and Michael O'Shea.

An unscrupulous salmon fisherman faces opposition from his honest brother, who runs a cannery.

A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.

Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."

Various performers and backstage crew come under suspicion when a dancer is found murdered at a burlesque theatre.

Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.

A playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.

When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with guilt, the mentalist cancels further shows, breaks off his engagement to his female partner, who can read minds while in a hypnotic trance, and takes refuge in the eerie wax-museum-cum-home of another woman friend.

Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.

A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.

Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the civilians at home. This was Universal Pictures' effort. It features everyone from Donald O'Connor to the Andrews Sisters to Orson Welles to W.C. Fields to George Raft to Marlene Dietrich, and dozens of other Universal players.

A high school bandleader captures the interest of a popular co-ed.

After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?

Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.

Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.

Dr. Alfred Morris, a university chemistry professor, rediscovers an ancient Mayan formula for a gas which turns men into pliant, obedient, zombie-like ghouls. After medical student Ted Allison becomes a guinea pig for Morris, the professor imagines that Allison's fiancée, a beautiful concert singer Isabel Lewis, wants to break off the engagement because she prefers the professor as a more "mature" lover but in reality loves Eric, her accompanist. In order to bring Ted back from his trance-like states, Morris commands him to perform a cardiectomy on recently deceased or living bodies in order to use serum from their hearts as a temporary antidote. When the serial murders seem to coincide with Isabel's touring schedule, ace reporter "Scoop" McClure gets on the mad scientist's trail.

브루스터 박사와 프랭크는 알루카드 백작이란 인물이 보내온 짐을 받게 된다. 그리고 브루스터 박사는 백작의 이니셜을 거꾸로 읽자 드라큘라라는 이름이 됨을 알고, 수상하게 생각한다. 그날 밤 캐서린의 아버지가 죽은 후 캐서린은 집을 집을 제외한 모든 권리를 언니에게 넘기게 되고, 알루카드 백작과 결혼식을 올리게 되는데...

A young woman marries a soldier to fulfill the conditions of a will. However, when she gets ready to divorce him, she realizes that she actually loves him, and determines to find a way to keep him.

Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.

Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!

Career woman Jean. almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who of course is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val.

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past tangles with the law, they can't find anybody who'll hire them. Finally one of them gets a job at the department store where his sister works, but runs afoul of a store executive who is in league with a ring of hijackers.

An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.

England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of terror in England, just before they take place. Baffled, the Defence Committee call in Holmes ...

A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.

An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.

괴물의 창조자 프랑켄슈타인박사의 또다른 아들인 루드빅 프랑켄슈타인을 찾아 괴물을 데리고 '바사리아'로 찾아온 이고. 괴물에게 새로운 뇌를 이식시켜 좋은 성품과 인격을 부여하고자 하는 루드빅 프랑켄슈타인박사의 계획에 이고는 슬며시 계락을 꾸미는데...

Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by outlaws.

미국에서 거의 20년을 지낸 탈보트 가의 아들 래리가 웨일즈의 고향으로 돌아온다. 래리는 아버지의 망원경을 조작하다 동네 골동품상 딸인 그웬을 보고 반하고 그녀에게 접근한다. 그러다 그는 늑대의 습격을 받는 그웬의 친구 제니를 구하려다 부상을 입게 되고 서서히 늑대 인간이 되어버린다. 국내 출시사 소개글. 유니버설 호러영화 전성기의 끝을 장식하는 이 영화는 , , 등을 내놓은 유니버설사가 마지막에 내민 몬스터 시리즈였다. 많은 유니버설 호러영화들이 그렇듯, 도 사운드 스테이지에서 만들어내는 그 과장된 분위기로 관객들의 시선을 끄는 영화다. 또한, 이 영화는 특수 효과 역사에 기념비를 세운 작품이기도 했다. 우리가 알고 있는 늑대인간의 외모가 처음으로 완성된 작품이 바로 이 영화였기 때문이다. 잭 피어스가 디자인한 이 털복숭이 괴물은 당시까지만 해도 최첨단이었다. 래리가 늑대인간으로 변신하는 장면의 화면 합성 트릭은 이 나오기 전까지만 해도 거의 모든 늑대 인간 영화들이 따랐던 방법이었다.

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Kids look to get revenge when their fathers are all killed in a mob war.

The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.

"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.

A chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.

After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.

A man is threatend with scandal when he accidentally acquires a stolen diamond.

A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.

16세기말 영국은 강대국 스페인에 맞서 스페인이 주도하는 해상무역에 타격을 주기 시작한다. 영국 여왕 엘리자베스(플로라 롭슨 분)의 격려에 힘입어 영국 세력이 넓어지자 위협을 느낀 스페인 황제 필립(레이몬드 메세이 분)은 엘리자베스를 암살하려는 계획을 세운다.

그는 1609년 스페인으로부터 독립해 무역국가로 성장, 부유한 부르주아 문화를 꽃피운 네델란드에서 태어나, 루벤스(1577-1640)와 함께 바로크 시대를 대표하는 화가입니다. 레이덴의 방앗간집 여덟째 아들이었던 그는 레이덴 대학을 그만두고 그림의 길을 걷기 위해 암스테르담으로 유학, 28세에 명문가의 딸 사스키아 반 오윌렌부르흐 와 결혼, 최고의 초상화가로서 인정받고 30대 초반에 엄청난 부와 명성을 쌓았지만, 42년(36세)에 아내 사스키아가 사망하고. 이해 그의 대표적 걸작, 야경 을 제작했는데 사람들로부터 외면 당해 결국 빚더미 위에 올라앉게 됩니다. 하지만 아들 타이터스와 그의 정성껏 보살피는 하녀 헨드리케 슈토펠스 와 54년에 얻은 딸 코르넬리아 덕분에 후기 작품에 전념하였으나, 생활은 날로 어려워졌으며, 56년(50세) 파산선고를 받아 무일푼이 되었고, 62년(56세)에는 헨드리케 마저 세상을 떠나고, 68년 아들 타이터스도 27살에 죽자, 이듬해 10월 유대인 구역의 초라한 집에서 임종을 지키는 사람도 없이 63세에 숨을 거둡니다. 에칭에 대한 모든 기술을 완성하기도 한 그는 유화 약 600점, 에칭 300여점, 소묘 천 수백점 등을 남겼는데 루벤스가 화가로서 성공을 거두고 부유했던 반면, 그가 죽을 때 남은 것이라고는 옷 몇 벌과 그림 도구들 뿐이었다고 합니다.