Dr. Meirschultz (Horace B. Carpenter) is a mad scientist. Make that a wacky scientist. He yells and leaps around and yells some more. He’s also working on serum for raising the dead. Helping him, due to a combination of debt and blackmail, is Don Maxwell (William Woods), a vaudeville performer with top makeup skills who
A man (Rex Harrison), later identified as Charles Hathaway, wakes up in Wales with amnesia. With the aid of a specialist (Cecil Parker), he discovers he’s rich, married to a beautiful woman (Kay Kendall), and is an important government official. But quickly things don’t fit properly. His boss (Raymond Huntley) only seems to know him
Police detectives Kelly (Hugh Herbert) and Dempsey (Allen Jenkins) were fixing a flat tire in a rainstorm when they were interrupted by Vesta (Marcia Ralston), a hysterical woman in distress, who reports that her stepfather has been killed in a lighthouse. They race to the spot to find it occupied by an artist (John Eldredge),
Sam Higgins (Gordon Harker) arrives at an isolated Welsh village to take over running the local lighthouse. The villagers are a strange and superstitious lot, believing the lighthouse to be haunted, a belief that is buttressed by the disappearance of the previous lighthouse keeper as well as Tom Evans (Reginald Tate) having just gone mad
WWI Capt. Richard (Saverio Yaquinto) takes off in his biplane to scout enemy positions. He’s shot down and ends up lost in a jungle, where he turns savage, which includes growing some rather unlikely globs of hair that seam glued to his shoulders. Eventually another pilot lands in a clearing in the jungle and Richard
Dr. Andrew Forbes (George Zucco), an insane archaeologist, has found the treasure of Montezuma, along with a feathered serpent that was guarding it, and is keeping the beast in a cage and using it to kill by planting one of its feathers on intended victims. How he discovered all of that may have been exciting,
Twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan), return to their home after robbing the major criminal gangs in Chicago, planning to start a juke joint while fending off the local KKK. They employ, for the night, their younger cousin (Miles Caton) whose musical abilities are so powerful that they rip the fabric of reality.
Captain Blood marked the beginning of the golden age of Swashbucklers (yes, every genre has an era known as its golden age; just go with it). Before it, the complications in recording sound while filming the movement inherent in the genre made these films impractical. Sure, a silent Douglas Fairbanks could leap off a mast, but sound swashbuckling
Arrogant surgeon Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) damages his hands in a car accident and in desperation travels to the far East for mystical healing. There he finds The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and her sorcerer acolytes who defend the world from magical threats. The threat of the moment is from a rogue sorcerer (Mads Mikkelsen)
The arrival of twelve spaceships causes worldwide panic. Linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) are brought into a military team tasked with determining what the aliens want. Each day they can enter a ship and confront the mutli-tentacled aliens behind a glass wall and try and work out some form
On Krypton, the stupidest world in the universe, the effete elite are busy not noticing that the planet is about to implode. Enter Zod (a scenery-chewing Michael Shannon), freedom fighter, to bring power back to the people. Hey, this could get interesting. Nope, never mind. He’s a Nazi who also is busy ignoring the upcoming