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The Black Cat

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The Black Cat
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1hr 5min
Genre:
Horror
Release:
1934
Director:
Edgar G. Ulmer
Starring:
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners  ...more
Synopsis: The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie film that was surprisingly morbid and perverse for its time. Peter (David Manners) and Joan Allison (Julie Bishop) are honeymooning in Budapest when they meet mysterious scientist Dr. Vitus Verdegast (Lugosi) aboard a train. When the trio's bus from the train station gets into an accident, the young couple accompanies Verdegast to the castle of the spectral Hjalmar Poelzig (Karloff), ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam, AMG Review
The Black Cat is director Edgar G. Ulmer's masterpiece, and only the commercial considerations of its day prevent it from ranking higher on lists of the greatest films of the 20th century. The story operates on multiple levels, most deeply as a parable for post-WWI Europe. Unlike such anti-war films as All Quiet on the Western Front, which seem to have all the answers worked out before the first scene, ... Full Review
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Boris Karloff
Hjalmar Poelzig
Bela Lugosi
Dr. Vitus Verdegast
David Manners
Peter Allison
Jacqueline Wells
Joan Allison
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