George Zucco

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.

성경 사무엘하에 있는 내용을 바탕으로, 전남편 유리아가 죽은 후 다윗왕에게 재가하여 솔로몬을 낳은 밧세바의 이야기!! 한여름날 저녁 궁전 집에서 바람을 쐬던 다윗은 멀리 한 여인을 보게 되었다. 마음에 들은 다윗은 그녀가 히타이트 사람 유리아의 아내이며, 유리아는 아브텔을 죽이고도 처벌을 받지 않은 장수 요압의 부하라는 사실을 알았다. 다윗은 그녀의 남편 유리아를 궁으로 초대하여 환대하고 요압에게 전할 편지를 한 통 주어 보냈다. 편지의 내용은 그를 최전방으로 보내 적에게 죽게 내버려두라는 내용의 편지였는데….

A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.

An American agent working undercover as a cafe pianist in Cairo sets out to capture a notorious spy and jewel thief known as "The Voice". Director Ray Nazarro's 1951 drama stars Richard Denning, Lisa Ferraday, Norman Lloyd, George Zucco, Nestor Paiva, Donald Randolph and Dick Elliott.

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.

A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter.

Based on the French literary classic, this drama presents author Gustave Flaubert narrating his tale of infidelity and narcissism. After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young Leon Dupuis and later with the wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger. Eventually, however, her self-involved behavior catches up with her.

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she encounters at her Uncle's remote estate.

Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.

잉그리드 버그만이 잔 다르크로 주연한 빅터 플레밍 감독의 역사물. 오리지널 런닝 타임은 145분이며, 커트 판은 100분이다. 1948년 아카데미 촬영상, 의상상 수상.

마뉴엘라는 마을의 부유한 남자 돈 페드로 바거스와의 결혼을 앞두고 있다. 하지만 그녀는 언제나 전설적인 해적 마코코를 만나기를 꿈꾼다. 한편 매력적인 가수 세라핀이 이끄는 순회 공연단이 마을을 찾고, 마뉴엘라는 세라핀의 공연을 보게 된다. 마뉴엘라에게 첫눈에 반한 세라핀은 그녀의 환심을 사기 위해 검은 해적 마코코로 가장하고, 그녀에게 접근한다.

Lloyd Bridges plays a flying ace war hero who gets sucked into a counterfeiting scheme by opposing gangs of crooks.

아름다운 마라의 약혼자가 멀리 영국으로 유학을 간 틈을 타, 대제사장은 그녀를 사악한 바르가와 결혼시키려 한다. 대제사장과 바르가의 마수로부터 탈출을 감행한 마라는 타잔과 제인의 도움을 받게 되고, 무사히 약혼자와 만나 행복을 되찾는다.

A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.

스페인의 작은 마을에 페드로라는 귀족이 살고 있다. 인정많고 정의감에 불타는 페드로는 어느날, 노예제도에 불만을 품고 도망을 가던 코아틀이라는 노예를 도와준다. 코아틀은 드실바 총독의 노예로 평소 페드로와 절친하게 지내던 사이였다. 코아틀을 도와주고 돌아오던 길에 페드로는 드실바 총독의 부하들에게 회롱을 당하고 있는 '카타나' 라는 여인을 만나, 그녀를 도와주게 된다. 하지만 이 사건은 드실바 총독의 노여움을 사고 총독은 페드로의 일가족을 '이단자'라는 죄목으로 강제로 감옥에 가둔다. 게다가 페드로의 누이동생은 고문 과정에서 숨을 거두고 만다. 페드로에게 첫눈에 반한 카타나는 자신의 누이동생과 쥬앙에게 부탁을 해서 감옥에 갇혀 있던 페드로 일가를 구한다. 페드로의 부모는 간신히 이탈리아로 도망을 가고 홀로 남게된 페드로에게 쥬앙은 헤르난 코테즈 선장이 이끄는 인도 탐험대에 합류하자고 제안하는데...

In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a `lady.'

A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...

A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her. Using this knowledge he exacts revenge upon his enemies by placing one of the feathers on his intended victim and letting the beast loose to wreak havoc.

Ogden Spencer Trulow III is a wealthy kleptomaniac who turned to stealing when he was spurned by a girl. His psychoanalyst advises him to find another girl for a cure. He fastens his interest upon Sally Martin, who happens to be engaged upon helping some crooks steal a valuable necklace. Complications include two scantily attired individuals, one of them drunk, clinging to the cornice of a skyscraper and a large band of crooks in quest of the precious jewels.

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

A desert pickpocket, his sidekick, and an escaped slave help an incognito queen in danger.

Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

Leo, a former convict, is living in seclusion on an island with his step-daughter, the daughter of his late wife. Leo was framed by a group of former business associates, and he also suspects that one of them killed his wife. He has invited the group to his island, tempting them by hinting about a hidden fortune, and he has installed a number of traps and secret passages in his home. He is aided in his efforts by a former cell-mate who holds a grudge against the same persons. When everyone arrives, the atmosphere of mutual suspicion and the thick fog that covers the island promise a tense and hazardous weekend for everyone.

프랑켄슈타인이 만든 괴물을 다시 살리고 싶은 욕망을 가진 과학자 니만은 죽은 시체를 이용해 실험한다는 이유로 마을 사람들에 의해 15년간 감옥에 갇히게 된다. 그리고 보통 사람의 몸을 갖길 소망하는 곱추 다니엘을 데리고 감옥을 탈출한다. 그는 그를 감옥에 있게 만든 사람들에게 복수하기 위해, 잠든 뱀파이어를 깨우고, 빙하에 냉동된 늑대 인간과 다니엘을 이용만 하는 니만은, 다니엘이 사랑했던 여인이 죽게 되자 위험에 빠지게 되는데...

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.

The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.

An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

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.

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.

When a small town doctor buries his twin brother, a practitioner of the black arts, he believes him dead; but subsequent events force him to realize that his brother has, in fact, returned from the dead as a vampire and is seeking revenge on the doctor, who had killed him in self-defense.

In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.

A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka thirty years earlier.

A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.

A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.

Ralph Bellamy made his fourth and final appearance as literary sleuth Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring. On this occasion, Ellery and his police-inspector father are summoned to a private hospital by its owner, philanthropist Mrs. Stack. There've been some very weird goings-on at the hospital as of late, and Mrs. Stack wants to get to the bottom of things.

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.

After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

In 1939, American Tom Martin, who fought in the Spanish Civil War, awaits execution at the hands of the Fascist victors when reporter Augusta 'Gusto' Nash, for a scoop, aids him in an audacious escape. Of course, Tom tries to romance Gusto; but though she likes him, her career comes first, and Tom himself prefers freedom-fighting to settling down. Comedy becomes drama as their mixed feelings lead them on a circuitous path through the deepening chaos and catastrophe of the early days of World War II.

A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

축제로 들썩이는 파리 시내, 아름다운 집시 여인 에스메랄다가 사람들 앞에서 춤을 춘다. 노트르담 대성당에서 아름다운 종소리가 울려 퍼지게 하는 종지기인 꼽추 콰지모도도 에스메랄다의 모습에 반한다. 루이 11세와 함께 축제에 참석했던 대법관 프롤로 역시 에스메랄다에게 마음을 빼앗긴다. 그리고 이들을 둘러싼 비극의 서막이 오른다. 프랑스의 대문호 빅토르 위고가 루이 11세 치하의 15세기 파리를 배경으로 쓴 소설을 영화화했다. 중세 파리와 노트르담 대성당을 재현한 세트는 거대하고 웅장하다. (2017 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 서머 스페셜 2017)

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

모리아티 교수(조지 주코)는 마침내 살인 혐의를 받게 되지만, ‘범죄의 나폴레옹’은 법정에서 증거 불충분으로 석방된다. 법정에서 피고를 석방한 직후, 셜록 홈즈는 모리아티의 알리바이를 깨고 교수형을 시킬 수 있는 증거를 가지고 달려온다. 아, 그는 너무 늦어버렸고 범죄의 제왕은 풀려나게 된다. 모리아티는 지체없이 다음 범죄를 계획하는데, 성공을 위해서는 위대한 탐정의 관심을 다른 곳으로 돌려야만 한다. 앤 브랜든 양(아이다 루피노)은, 그녀와 그녀의 오빠가 위에 날짜가 적혀있는 알바트로스 목걸이를 단 남자의 사진이 든 익명의 편지를 받고나서 홈즈와 그의 동료 왓슨 박사(나이젤 브루스)를 방문한다. 그녀의 아버지도 같은 협박 편지를 몇 년 전에 받고나서 편지에 씌어있는 날짜에 살해된 채로 발견되었었다. 이 의문의 편지들은 주의를 산만하게 하는 것일 뿐인가? 사악한 모리아티 교수의 행적과는 관계없는 사건의 단서들인가? 아니면 영국의 근간을 흔들만한 범죄의 제왕의 계획과 관련된 냉혹한 재앙의 전조인가? 홈즈와 왓슨은 미스테리를 해결하고, 다행히도 모리아티 교수의 위협을 제거하게 된다.

A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.

The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

A socialite dumps her fiancé on their wedding day and runs off with a saxophone player. Comedy.

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.

A woman and a man vying for a woman's affection: the usual love trio? Not quite so since the belle in question is Lorraine de Grissac, a very wealthy and alluring society woman, while one of the two rivals is none other than Arsène Lupin, the notorious jewel thief everybody thought dead, now living under the assumed name of René Farrand. As for the other suitor he is an American, a former F.B.I. sleuth turned private eye by the name of Steve Emerson. Steve not only suspects Farrand of being Lupin but when someone attempts to steal a precious emerald necklace from Lorraine's uncle, Count de Brissac, he is persuaded Lupin is the culprit. Is Emerson right or wrong? Which of the two men will win over Lorraine's heart?

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers, in order for them to reveal Napolean's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets, Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors and returns to Spain, and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but, the 2 nations are now at war... Written by Kelly

A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.

An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.

Michael 'Nuggin' Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing a London neighborhood.

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

"The Common Touch" tells of an elderly headmaster (George Zucco) whose Christian beliefs are re-affirmed when he hears news from two of his ex-pupils who are working as missionaries in Africa.

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.

In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to kidnap the man's wife so he can get her signature and reclaim the money. The detective didn't plan on falling in love with the wife, but he does, and mayhem ensues.

A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.

According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is a widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to the receipt of it. The two much marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.

A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she refuses to tell him who she really is, her accuser decides to take her home where he can keep an eye on her until 12 o'clock the next day, the time at which she has calculated that it will be safe to tell the truth! But when his fiancée arrives unexpectedly and then his 'guest' is mistaken for her, it all gets rather embarrassing...

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.