Amnesiac and psychopath Robert Griffin (Jon Hall) escapes from an asylum after regaining his memory, and seeks out his old cohorts, the Herricks (Lester Matthews, Gale Sondergaard), demanding his cut, and more, in a diamond mine. Thrown out and on the run, he happens to stop at the home of a scientist (John Carradine), who
An eccentric scientist (John Barrymore) invents an invisibility machine and puts in ad in the paper for a volunteer subject. The volunteer turns out to be an adventurous female model, Kitty Carroll (Virginia Bruce). Soon, mobsters are interested in the machine, and the scientist’s playboy patron (John Howard) is interested in the girl. Outside of
When Sir Borotyn’s body is found, drained of all it’s blood, superstitious Dr. Doskil (Donald Meek) declares the cause of death to be a vampire attack, and the townspeople agree. Skeptical Police Inspector Neumann (Lionel Atwill) calls in Professor Zelen (Lionel Barrymore) who agrees with the doctor. Zelen fears that the new residents of the
An archaeological dig, lead by Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron), unearths the mummy of Imhotep (Boris Karloff). A scroll buried with the mummy brings him back to life. Years later, Imhotep, now masquerading as modern Egyptian Ardath Bey, attempts to bring back his ancient love who has been reincarnated as Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann), while Sir Joseph’s
The 4th film in the Kharis series. Workers in a Louisiana swamp uncover the body of the mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.). Again, a priest animates him with tana leaves, and they search for the now arisen Princess Ananka. Somehow, the New England swamp (there are swamps in New England?) from The Mummy’s Ghost has
The 3rd film in the Kharis series. In Mapleton, Massachusetts, the mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) is animated once again by tana leaves. Joined by an Egyptian priest (John Carradine), he searches for the body of Princess Ananka to take it back to Egypt. But her spirit has been reincarnated into the body of a
Out-of-work archaeologists Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and Babe Jenson (Wallace Ford) discover the location of the tomb of princess Ananka. With funds from stage magician Solvani (Cecil Kellaway) and his daughter, Marta (Peggy Moran), they set out into the desert. But the tomb is guarded by an ancient cult, and the priest has the power
Thirty years after Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and Babe Jenson/Hanson (Wallace Ford) found the tomb of Ananka, the cult sends a new priest to the United States, with the mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.), to kill Hanson, Banning, and his family. The time line of the four film Kharis series (The Mummy’s Hand, The Mummy’s Tomb,
A severe storm drives first Philip and Margaret Waverton and their friend Roger Penderel (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, and Melvyn Douglas), and then wealthy Sir William Porterhouse and dancehall girl Gladys Perkins (Charles Laughton and Lilian Bond), to ask for shelter in an old dark house. They are ungraciously greeted by prim Horace Femm (Ernest
Insurance salesman, Albert Tuttle (Jack Haley), shows up at an old mansion only to find his client-to-be is already dead. The eccentric man’s beneficiaries have gathered in the house for a reading of the will, and mistake Tuttle for a detective who has been hired to watch the body. It seems that the will has
Young, good-looking Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) wishes that a painting age while he remains unchanged. As Dorian becomes corrupt, the painting takes on not only the look of his progressing age, but of his ever-increasing sin. The short novel, written by Oscar Wilde, is a story of sin and the dual nature of man and
Down-on-his-luck artist, Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten), finds inspiration in a peculiar young girl named Jennie (Jennifer Jones) that he meets in the park. She speaks of things that have been gone for years. Each time Adams runs into her, she has aged many years, and Adams begins to suspect he is falling in love with