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Bela Lugosi returns from beyond to present this documentary that investigates the origins of erotic and pornographic cinema, with uncensored images of surviving films, the first erotic films, explicit sex filmed in clandestinity, where they came from and who watched. A curious and interesting work of collages that is very informative.
Dracula. The fictional count of the undead who emerges by night to claim the blood of his victims. Since his first appearance in the classic 1897 novel, his name has become synonymous with vampire legend. Charles Manson. Career criminal, cult guru, cold-blooded killer. Since his apprehension and conviction in 1971, his name has become synonymous with the dark side of sixties counterculture. In Manson and Dracula: Closer Than We Think, acclaimed filmmaker BC Fourteen takes a deep dive down the rabbit hole to shine a light on the dark deeds and lasting legacies of both these notorious figures.
Self
Diabolical. Seductive. Immortal. Vampires have been an icon of evil in folklore and popular culture for more than three centuries, yet only one name still personifies the ultimate aristocrat of bloodlust. Now join the world’s foremost experts on Dracula – including academics, authors and horror historians – as they explore the untold story of the Transylvanian Count, from the legend of Vlad The Impaler and Bram Stoker’s celebrated novel through its landmark stage productions and classic movie adaptations.
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Tell-Tale Heart')
Экранизация пяти известнейших мрачных рассказов Эдгара Аллана По: «Падение дома Ашеров», «Колодец и маятник», «Маска Красной смерти», «Сердце-обличитель» и «Правда о том, что случилось с мистером Вальдемаром».
Himself (archive footage)
On Valentines Day, 1931, Universal Pictures released the film Dracula - the first true horror movie. Its worldwide success catapulted the film's lead actor, Romanian-born Bela Lugosi, to overnight stardom. "Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire" traces the life and career of this mysterious man whose name became synonymous with the evil, yet magnetically compelling Count Dracula. Using archival still and film clips as well as interviews with film historians, actors and Lugosi himself, the special chronicles the meteoric rise and then precipitous decline of a talented yet tragic man who forever changed the face of horror films.
Self (archive footage)
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.
Our intrepid adventurers Ace Zucco and Mike Flannigan from Terror in the Tropics return for another exciting quest in Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb. Ace Zucco has a new partner, reporter Fay Kendall, who is more than a match for the rowdy photographer. Daily Dispatch editor Mac sends them on assignment accompanying his niece Kate as she tries to find Rick Banning, her fiancée, an archeologist who disappeared while working in Egypt. A letter from Rick directs them to Lord Darby in England. The trail takes them from London to Scotland and finally to Egypt where they discover more than they bargained for as they search for the lost city of Lemuria.
Self (archive footage)
Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Bela Lugosi.
Vitus Tesla (archive footage)
A tribute to Poverty Row Studios of the 30's and 40's
Narrator
A stark black-and-white adaption of Edgar Allen Poe’s story by a veteran animator long associated with Disney.
Himself / Count Dracula (archive footage)
Martin Landau talks about how he portrayed Bela Lugosi in the movie. He mentions the similarities between Lugosi and his own career, and how he worked on the Hungarian accent. Rick Baker, who won an Oscar for the make-up effects, discusses how he approached transforming Landau into Lugosi, and how much he wanted to do the project.
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Ever wonder if celebrity truly dies with the celebrity, if graves really can give up the dead, or if walls really do talk? Then join the hunt for star haunts and hauntings in and around the city of broken dreams - Hollywood, California. Find out the details of the odd pilgrimages and observances held at celebrity gravesites, the eerie accounts of strange studio haunts, the unusual tales of ghostly disturbances at the mansions of the stars, and the spooky sightings of apparitions on the Grey Ghost herself, the legendary luxury liner, the Queen Mary. With this program, you have a unique backstage pass to the studio lots, the crypts, the tombstones, the cemeteries, and the homes of some of Hollywood's most notable characters, ranging from Bugsy Siegel and Rudolph Valentino to Harry Houdini and Marilyn Monroe. So if your curiosity is sparked and your courage is up to par, then come along on a truly terrifying tour of Hollywood Ghosts and Gravesites.
Self (archive footage)
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
Various Roles (Archive Footage)
A & E Comprehensive biographies of 5 of the greatest classic stars of the horror genre. Included lots or archive footage from some the greatest horror movies committed to film.
Self (archive footage)
Documentary featured on the Classic Monster Collection and Monster Legacy Collection for The Mummy (1932).
Self (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
Self (archive footage)
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).
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A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Himself (archive footage)
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula uncovers the life and career of legendary actor Bela Lugosi, examining his early life in Hungary and Germany through his Hollywood successes and eventual decline. The film features a vast array of never-before-seen footage of the actor, ranging from remains of his 1918 film Struggle for Life to behind-the-scenes home movies on the set of RKO Studios. Lugosi is peppered with dozens of rare films clips and photographs, with the story itself coming to life thanks to the vast array of on-camera interviewees.
Himself (archive footage)
Often called the worst director in the history of cinema, Ed Wood is nevertheless a beloved figure among cult-film aficionados for his oddball productions. This documentary takes a look back at Wood's unique career at the margins of 1950s Hollywood, speaking to those who loved him and hated him. Bela Lugosi Jr. discusses his father's work in the abysmal "Plan 9 From Outer Space," while a Baptist reverend recalls how he was tricked into financing the film.
Self / Dracula (archive footage)
From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a popular icon since the 1930s.
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DEATH SCENES II continues the exploration into the dark recesses of violence and rage that ended in such heinous crimes as the Manson Family's assault on society. You'll see the gruesome aftermath of mob reprisals, public executions and international terrorism. DEATH SCENES II uniquely ushers the brave and curious into a spellbinding trip through the reality that is our world today.
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A one hour documentary on the life of one of Hollywood's neglected horror icons, hosted by fear fan extraordinare Forrest J Ackerman & interviews with Hollywood legends John Carradine, Ralph Bellamy, Carroll Borland and B-movie producer Alex Gordon.
Dracula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Своеобразная антология самых страшных и кровавых моментов из знаменитых фильмов ужасов, снятых в 1960-1980-х годах.
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Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Dracula in 'Screen Snapshots A-8' (archive footage)
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Dracula / Joseph / Legendre (archive footage)
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Self (archive footage)
A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.
Self (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.
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A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
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In this made-for-TV production, Vincent Price and his hunchback sidekick (Billy Van) host a pun-filled salute to the horror film genre from its earliest beginnings all the way up to The Exorcist. Featuring clips from classic horror films and interviews with genre greats like Frank Gorshin, John Carradine, John Astin and SFX legend Bill Tuttle, among others.
Self (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Count Dracula (archive footage)
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott & Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, In the Navy, Hit the Ice, Who Done It?, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Mexican Hayride, Hold That Ghost, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Little Giant, In Society, Ride 'Em Cowboy, The Naughty Nineties, Buck Privates Come Home, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, Lost in Alaska, Comin' Round the Mountain, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. - Written by Tom Weaver
Ghoul Man
Инопланетяне хотят превратить землян в рабов, но, опасаясь, что не справятся с их свободолюбивыми душами, вначале оживляют мертвецов на захолустном американском кладбище. От их рук гибнут всё новые люди, полицейские наталкиваются на разрытые могилы и отчаянно стреляют в неотвратимо надвигающихся живых мертвецов…
Casimir
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...
Dr. Eric Vornoff
Доктор Воронов, безумный ученый, пытающийся создать высшую расу, использует атомную энергию. Ему помогает монстрообразный ассистент Лобо. Доктор создает гигантского осьминога, который терроризирует окрестности...
Scientist
Психиатр рассказывает инспектору две истории из жизни транссексуалов и трансвеститов: как некто Алан сделал операцию и стал Анной, и как некто Глен страшится рассказать невесте Барбаре о своем хобби — облачаться в ангорские кофточки и шастать по ночам в облике Гленды. Параллельно некий ученый предупреждает зрителей: «Берегись зеленого дракона!»
Dr. Zabor
The Singer Duke Mitchell meets Sammy Petrillo in this parody of Martin & Lewis. They arrive on a jungle island, where a mad scientist played by Bela Lugosi makes human esperiments.
Von Housen
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
Dr. Alex Zorka
Not a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released to TV in 1949.
Count Dracula
Уилбур и Чик транспортируют в музей ужасов два больших ящика, в одном из которых находится тело Дракулы, а в другом - тело монстра, созданного доктором Франкенштейном. Люди решают воскресить двух чудовищ, однако Человек-волк, извечный враг этой парочки, решает им помешать.
Prof Leonide
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...
Stone
Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.
Joseph
Доктору Макфарлану для практики и лекций необходимы трупы, которые ему поставляет грабитель могил Грей, днем работающий извозчиком. Однажды Грей привозит к доктору вдову с парализованной дочерью, и студент Макфарлана уговаривает того провести сложнейшую операцию на позвоночнике девочки.
Dr. Paul Renault
Hiring real zombies for a broadway show proves difficult.
Murkil
An insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle, is hired as a body guard for a millionaire.
Prof. Dexter
The discovery of a perfectly preserved caveman prompts a mad scientist to attempt a daring brain transplant.
Dr. Richard Marlowe
A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife.
Armand Tesla
Лондон, 1918 год. Доктор Джейн Эйнсли и её коллега-профессор загоняют осиновый кол в сердце вампира Арманда Теслы. Но спустя 23 года начинается вторая мировая война, и после одной из бомбёжек Тесла возвращается к жизни. Объединившись с Человеком-Волком, он решает отомстить своим убийцам.
Emil
The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.
Dr. James Brewster
A scientist is turned into an ape man.
The Frankenstein Monster
Картина режиссера Роя Уиллима Неилла начинается как обычный детектив, но постепенно напряжение нарастает, и зрителей подводят к незабываемой схватке героев. Воскресший Человек-волк, который хочет излечиться от своей болезни, обращается за помощью к сумасшедшему ученому Патрику Ноулесу. Последний заявляет, что не только навсегда избавит Человека-волка от его ночных превращений, но и вернет жизнь замороженному телу нечеловеческого творения Франкенштейна.
Prof. Frederick Brenner aka Karl Wagner
A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
Rolf
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Dr. Lorenz
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides.
Ygor
В деревне Франкенштейна идёт волнение. Люди думают что их постигло проклятие и во всех своих бедах обвиняют монстра Франкенштейна. Идут слухи о том что Игорь возможно жив и пытается оживить монстра. Сельские жители оказывают давление на мэра и он разрешает им уничтожить замок Франкенштейна. Игорь пытается подавить сопротивление, но сельские жители ломают ворота в замок и начинают крушить его. Игорь убегающий через катакомбы находит монстра. Невидимые сельским жителям Игорь и монстр бегут из замка через сельскую местность. Там они сталкиваются с мощной грозой. В монстра попадает молния, но она не убивает его а наоборот омоложает. Игорь решает найти Людвига, второго сына Франкенштейна, что бы тот помог монстру.
Dr. Melcher/ Monsieur Colomb
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.
Bela
После смерти брата Ларри Тэлбот возвращается к отцу в семейное имение. События принимают плохой оборот, когда Ларри кусает оборотень.
Nardo
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
Eduardo
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Dr. Charles Kessler
Один из уважаемых жителей города подвержен неконтролируемым приступам, заставляющим его убивать людей. Причиной его состояния стала жена, которая ушла к другому мужчине, а после этого попала в автомобильную аварию.
Dr. Paul Carruthers
Dr. Paul Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular perfume he has discovered, which he gets his victims to apply before going outdoors. Johnny Layton, a reporter, finally figures out Carruthers is the killer and, after putting the perfume on himself, douses it on Carruthers in the hopes it will get him to give himself away. One of the two is attacked as the giant bat makes one of its screaming, swooping power dives.
Prince Saliano
Менеджер Кэй Кайзер и его оркестр отправляются на празднование дня рождения Джэнис Беллакрест, богатой наследницы, в роскошную усадьбу, выстроенную покойным Элмером Беллакрестом, известным финансовым магнатом и исследователем. Добравшись до особняка, гости замечают, что в доме царит таинственный заговор и какие-то «зловещие темные» силы пытаются убить Джэнис ...
Eric Marnay
Во время уличной драки профессор университета Кингсли оказывается серьёзно ранен. В это же время аналогичный случай происходит с гангстером Кэнноном. Чтобы спасти своего друга, доктор Совак трансплантирует профессору часть мозга гангстера, который умирает. Но теперь Кингсли знает, где находится тайник с награбленными деньгами, которые Кэннон похитил у своего соперника Марнея. Получив мозг гангстера, Кингсли начинает вести себя соответствующим образом.
Partner
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Commissar Razinin
В Париж прибывают посланцы Страны Советов, чтобы выгодно продать национализированные драгоценности, и на вырученные деньги купить оружие и продукты. Неожиданно выясняется, что часть бриллиантов принадлежала до революции великой княгине Сване, которая посылает своего юриста и любовника Леона уладить дела с "красными". Вкусившие сладкую парижскую жизнь, они заранее готовы на все, лишь бы подольше пробыть здесь. Но поскольку от посланцев ни слуху, ни духу, в Париж с чрезвычайной миссией выезжает несгибаемая революционерка Ниночка… Узнав об этом, Леон решает соблазнить "комиссаршу"…
Dr. Feodor Orloff / Prof. John Dearborn
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
Peters - the Butler
When an escaped circus gorilla appears to have gone on a murderous rampage, a threatened attorney calls on the detective trio of Garrity, Harrigan and Mullivan to act as bodyguards. In short order, we discover that there is more to the attorney than meets the eye, and the ape may be innocent after all. When a pretty young heiress faces peril, it's up to our heroic trio to save the day.
Ygor
Сын барона Франкенштейна вместе с женой и сыном возвращается в деревню своих предков, чтобы унаследовать дом своего отца. Их встречают неприветливо, так как жители деревни никак не могут забыть монстра, созданного бароном. Прибывший наследник встречает Игоря, пастуха, приговоренного к смерти за кражу трупов. Тот приводит сына барона в семейный склеп, где лежит монстр, находящийся в коме. Одновременно терзаемый воспоминаниями о невероятных опытах своего отца и одолеваемый желанием реабилитировать его как ученого, сын оживляет монстра и возвращает ему былые силы...
Dr. Alex Zorka / Dr. Zane
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
Boroff
An internationally-notorious criminal scientist returns to the US to sell his latest invention, a disintegrating gas, to a foreign power. When he arrives, however, he is spotted by a young Coast Guard man, whom he kills - and thus earns the enmity of the entire US Coast Guard, but especially the murdered Guardsman's older brother who, together with his reporter-girlfriend and her comical photographer, vigorously sets to tracking him down and interfering with his plans to develop the city-melting gas in quantity. A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters.
Victor Poten
Feature version of the 1936 serial starring Bela Lugosi. A European importing firm resorts to devious extremes to run its Chinese competition out of business.
Victor Poten
A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.
Gregory Benez
Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Dr. Felix Benet
Доктор Янош Рух обнаруживает источник нового излучения, которое обладает почти волшебными целебными свойствами. Но вещество таит в себе и опасность, и оно начинает влиять на разум Руха. Охваченный паранойей, он подозревает, что его открытие украли другие ученые. Одержимый жаждой мести, Рух собирается использовать собственное отравленное тело в качестве орудия убийства.
Arthur Perry
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
Dr. Richard Vollin
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
Anton Lorenzen
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
Count Mora
Сэр Карелл Боротин, очевидно, был убит графом Мора, вампиром, бродившим по его замку. Год спустя вампир преследует Ирену, дочь Карелла, и она станет его следующей жертвой ... если только профессор Зелен не сможет это предотвратить.
Mr. Fu Wong aka Lysee
Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.
Doc Boehm
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.
Frank Chandler (Chandu)
On the mystic island of Lemuria, the cult of Ubasti seek the Egyptian Princess Nadji to sacrifice so that their goddess Ossana, whose soul resides in Nadji's body, may be resurrected by Black Magic. Nadji is located in the Far East port of Suva, but shielded by the White Magical powers of Frank Chandler, an American raised by Eastern mystics who is also known as Chandu. When Chandu takes a voyage alone, however, the evil Voice of Ubasti is able to magically spirit her to Lemuria, where Black Magic reigns supreme. Chandu sets out in pursuit with his sister Dorothy, niece Betty and nephew Bob; but, shipwrecked on the magic island, Chandu finds his family also held prisoner for sacrifice while he is plunged into an endless maze of caverns beneath the evil temple, where both his mortal and magical strength seem rendered useless.
Frank Chandler (Chandu)
Chandu consults his crystal ball and sees that Nadji, Princess of Egypt, is in danger. She is about to be sacrificed by the black magic cult of Ubasti. Headed for the magic island of Lemuria, he is shipwrecked , washed ashore and captured. He becomes invisible, escapes and after numerous detours is able to rescue the princess.
Himself
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
Американские новобрачные проводят медовый месяц в Венгрии, где их ожидают жуткие приключения.
Himself
Long before the release of the cult film Dracula vs. Frankenstein, the original stars of Dracula and Frankenstein met face to face--for a game of chess. The scene is from an early 1934 episode of Columbia Pictures' Screen Snapshots, a series of short films featuring the off-screen lives of Hollywood stars.
Military Prosecutor
The French Foreign Legion is the setting for this episodic adventure yarn. Victor Jory plays a Legion doctor falsely accused of murdering his commander over the love of Loretta Young. Jory escapes prosecution by heading for parts unknown, but when a deadly illness strikes his old fort, he returns to aid his comrades. He is arrested, but clears himself of the murder charge and ends up with Young. Devil's in Love is distinguished by the surprise appearance of Bela Lugosi, who shows up unbilled as a relentless prosecuting attorney in the courtroom scenes.
General Petronovich
Foreign investors converge on a luxury hotel in China to bid on a new kind of radioscope. But, this is a hotel where Burns and Allen are the in-house medical staff, a measles risk sends the whole building into quarantine, and a madcap millionaire crashes dinner in his autogyro. Hotel and radioscope become a stage for an all-star cast of comedians and musicians, from vaudeville to the new generation.
Degar
The heirs to a family fortune are required to attend a seance at the spooky old family mansion. However, throughout the night members of the family are being killed off one by one.
Professor Adam Anton Strang
A mysterious criminal known as The Whispering Shadow commits crimes by means of a gang he controls by television and radio rays. Jack Norton, whose brother was murdered by The Whispering Shadow, suspects that the eerie Professor Strang - whose ghostly wax museum contains figures far too lifelike - may be involved in the crimes.
In the Hollywood Hall of Fame - a wax museum - the figure of Eddie Borden comes to life and introduces us to various stars in effigy. Pining over the effigy of Clara Bow, her husband Rex Bell suggests that Eddie get on with Betty Boop. Betty asks Eddie to accompany her in a rendition of "My Silent Love."
The Sayer of the Law
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
Joseph Steiner
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.
Roxor
When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.
Legendre
Молодые влюбленные Нил и Мадлен отправляются в романтическое путешествие на Гаити. В пути на корабле герои знакомятся с весьма изысканным и учтивым господином, месье Бомоном. По прибытии на остров влюбленные решают остановиться у него. Бомон влюбляется в Мадлен и делает все, чтобы добиться взаимности. Когда девушка в очередной раз жестко отвергает ухаживания, он решается на крайний шаг и обращается за помощью к практикующему вуду колдуну. Тот дает герою зелье, которое должно превратить Мадлен в зомби.
Dr. Mirakle
XIX век, Париж. Доктор Миракл, живущий на улице Морг, похищает женщин и проводит над ними бесчеловечные эксперименты. Его целью является скрещивание человека с гориллой. После введения крови примата в кровеносную систему женщин последние погибают и Миракл выбрасывает их трупы в Сену. На ярмарке доктор показывает говорящую гориллу Эрика. Среди зрителей - молодая девушка Камилла Леспане и её жених Пьер Дюпен, подозревающий Миракла в убийствах. Камилла становится предметом вожделения Эрика. Миракл решает воспользоваться и приказывает Эрика похитить девушку. Ночью обезьяна пробирается в спальню Камиллы и крадет её. Дюпен, догадавшись, что Камиллу похитил Миракл, обращается в полицию. В лаборатории Эрик, увидев, что Камилле угрожает опасность со стороны его хозяина, освобождается и убивает доктора. Затем, схватив Камиллу, бежит с ней по крышам Парижа. За зверем и его добычей устремляется погоня во главе с префектом и Дюпеном. Дюпен взбирается за Эриком на крышу и пристреливает обезьяну.
Self
Rare footage of Jean Harlow and Bela Lugosi discussing Dracula, as well as Walter Huston performing a musical number. It exists solely in fragmentary form.
Himself
Actor Bela Lugosi discusses his career, his social life, and his feelings about his most famous role, Count Dracula.
Pancho Arango
Jack's father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack's cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie is just as bad. They set off on a transcontinental trip with mischief on their minds.
Tarneverro
Голливудская кинозвезда Шила Фейн прибывает на съёмки в Гонолулу. Ещё на корабле у неё начинается роман с богатым путешественником Аланом Джейнсом, и уже через несколько дней он получает от него предложение руки и сердца. Шила обращается за помощью к знаменитому ясновидящему Тарниверо, с которым давно уже советуется по многим вопросам, и Тарниверо, играя на её страхах и сомнениях, отговаривает актрису вступать в брак с Аланом. Через несколько часов Шилу находят убитой. За расследование берется инспектор полиции Чарли Чен, и вскоре у него возникают подозрения, что это дело каким-то образом связано с убийством актера Дэнни Мэйо, произошедшим несколько лет назад и так и оставшимся нераскрытым.
Prince Hassan
Marines Flagg and Quirt fought together in WWI and Panama. After some time in New York they go to Sweden and compete for the love of Else. Next they go to Nicaragua and help earthquake victims. Then to Egypt where Else is now in Prince Hassan's harem.
Count Dracula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Эта экранизация романа Стокера снималась одновременно со знаменитым фильмом Броунинга в той же студии, но по ночам.
Orizon - Magician
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman with out spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchman to stop him.
Count Dracula
Агент по недвижимости Ренфилд приезжает в Трансильванию, чтобы подписать с графом Дракулой договор о покупке им старого аббатства Карфакс в Лондоне. Местные жители предупреждают Ренфилда, что замок Дракулы — логово нечисти, но тот игнорирует предупреждения и отправляется в замок. На перевале Борго его подбирает карета с молчаливым кучером. Выглянув по дороге из кареты, Ренфилд видит, что кучер исчез, а над упряжкой машет крыльями летучая мышь…
Frescatti
Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows disenchanted himself at being known as the husband of a diva and itches to get back to his life of crime and manliness.
Count von Ratz--Hungarian Ambassador
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.
The Marabout - Sheik Muhammed Halid
Four one-for-all and all-for-one privates in the French Foreign Legion are all in jail for disorderly conduct, but they break out and rejoin their regiment and fight off a band of marauding Arabs, and are soon in Casablanca getting decorated by the French Minister of War. Deucalion spots Eleanor, a spy who had done him dirt and after tangling with the local gendarmes, they take her and head back for Morocco where they are charged with desertion, and have to go out and defeat some more marauding natives, and dodge the machine-gun fire directed at them by the highly-displeased Eleanor, and one thing just follows another.
Felix Brown
The son of a wealthy politician falls in with a notorious gangster planning to rob a night club.
Emcee - Hungarian Version
Фильм провозгласил новую эру в звуковом и цветном развлекательном кинематографе, создав богатую насыщенную палитру мелодичных звуков и фантастического смешения красок. Этот фильм - гимн американской популярной музыки под названием ДЖАЗ. Жанр фильма - музыкальное ревю, в котором чередуются музыкальные номера, короткие комедийные эскизы-скетчи и два анимационных фрагмента. Все вместе они представлены в виде отдельных страниц, объединённых в альбом Пола Уайтмэна.
Dr. Goodman
A wealthy and powerful industrialist changes his identity to avenge himself on the wife that spurned him on their wedding night.
Inspector Delzante
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel, Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kill, and one of them uses the cover of darkness to kill again. When someone close to the medium is suspected she turns detective, in the hope of uncovering the true murderer.
(voice)
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
Brottos--Nightclub Owner
Prisoners was released as a part-talking, part-silent feature. An Austrian showgirl working in a cabaret moonlights as a thief. When she is caught in the act, a young lawyer offers to defend her. Unfortunately, he loses the case, causing her to spend several months in jail. Fortunately, the two have fallen in love, and he promises to wait for her.
Murdered Suitor
A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect herself.
Serge Romonsky
Immediately after the October revolution, in Russia, stir unrest and propaganda against the Government of the United States. Serge Oumansky is a Communist agent trying to organize terrorist actions against the same United States.
Nicholas Harmon
A corrupt art patron finds himself in love with the same girl as his stepson.
Jean Gagnon
Diane Duprez falls in love with Leslie in the snows of a Canadian village. And when they are trapped by a blizzard, her father thinks wrong of her...
Hisston
A distinguished young Naval officer from a celebrated military falls prey to a terrorist and his seductress accomplice bent on destroying the Panama Canal.
In the wild, hardly explored mountains of Kurdish country lives the mysterious society of the Jesidi , who are called the devil worshipers by their opponents. In these mountains, shaded by dark fir trees, revenge and hatred reign and constant struggle between the countless races and sects. Strange festivals unite the fervor of thousands, crowned by the dramatic sacrificial death of one of their holy men. And yet, even in these pictures, which are filled with tremendous passion, there is no lack of warm humor and a cheerful, strong forgiving nature that leads everything to a liberating end.
The film is believed to be lost.
Scheik
Caravan of Death (German: Die Todeskarawane) is a 1920 silent German film, it was an adaptation of the latter half of the Karl May novel From Baghdad to Stamboul, and is now considered to be lost.
The film featured Bela Lugosi playing an Arab Sheik pitted against European travellers in an adventure story set in the Sahara. It was the second of three films released by Ustad based on desert adventure novels by Karl May. Although Karl May’s widow praised the film, critics were unimpressed and it was a commercial failure.
Tom Bill
Andrew Fleurot
French aristocrat falls for Russian nightclub singer, gets involved in underground Russian revolutionary movement. Part 1 and 2 were re-edited in the surviving copy named Daughter of the night.
Chingachgook
Chingachgook, son of the chief of the Delaware Indian tribe and faithful friend of Hawkeye the Deerslayer is raised by his tribe after being orphaned.
Warren's Butler
Врач Уоррен попадает под влияние скульптурного изображения, одна сторона которого показывает изображение доброго бога, вторая — злобного демона. Эта ужасная скульптура меняет его сознание. Он находит эликсир, который позволяет разделить Доброе и Злое в человеке. Уоррен может теперь превращаться в своего «alter ego» ОКоннора и обратно. Но однажды превращение не срабатывает, он обречён вечно оставаться О`Коннором. Он пытается составить завещание на имя Уоррена, но это ему не удается. В конце концов, преследуемый полицией, Уоррен покончил с собой.
Andrew Fleurot
French aristocrat falls for Russian nightclub singer, gets involved in underground Russian revolutionary movement. Parts 1 and 2 were re-edited in the only surviving copy named Daughter of the Night.
Professor Mors
When doctors fail to cure the young and beautiful Claire Raven, who for inexplicable reasons seems to have fallen under a spell, Professor Mors, an expert in the field of hypnosis, is called in to help.
Lord Henry Wotton
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
