Due to an act of cowardice, Sir Simon de Canterville (Charles Laughton) is cursed never to know peace until a descendant performs a brave deed. Three hundred years later, American troops are billeted at Canterville castle, and one of them, Private Cuffy Williams (Robert Young), turns out to be a distant relative. The young Lady
In this 4th film in the Frankenstein series, Ygor (Bela Lugosi) takes the wounded Monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) to yet another Doctor Frankenstein (Cedric Hardwicke) who decides that a brain transplant will return the good reputation of his family. Ygor enlists the aid of Doctor Bohmer (Lionel Atwill) to alter the Monster’s operation to fit
General Gurko Lanen (George Sanders) controls Lichtenburg with an iron fist, holding the Grand Duchess Zona (Joan Bennett) as his prisonser. Edmund Dantes Jr. (Louis Hayward), son of the famous Count of Monte Cristo, masquerading as a foppish banker, comes to free the beautiful Zona and lead a revolution. A second tier Swashbuckler, The Son
Journalists and romantic couple Carlos (Tomas Perrin Jr.) and Lola (Elena DâOrgaz) investigate the murder of a woman whose heart was cut out, implying she was a sacrifice. Their investigation leads them to the foremost expert on the Aztecs, Dr. Gallardo (Carlos Orellanda) of the museum. Heâs also secretly a member of an Aztec cult
Most of the key artists of early Swashbucklers were involved in this film (director Curtiz, Korngold, Flynn, de Havilland, Rathbone, Pallette, Hale, Rains, fencing master Cavens). With the addition of color The Adventures of Robin Hood became the standard bearer for the genre.
The joy of this film comes from listening. Ronald Colman’s voice is nearly an institution; add in the voices of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, and David Niven and the picture becomes almost unnecessary.
Iâve always thought of the The Prisoner of Zenda as a âsmartâ Swashbuckler, and it is, in dialog, character, and structure, if not in story. The action is first rate, but secondary to the film, for in this case, it is all about wordsâsuperbly crafted wordsâand the voices that pronounce them. While fun to watch, the true joy
The mysterious Dr. Dienys (Carlos VillarĂas) is both feared and mocked by the medical scientific community. And why not, when he experiments with psychic powers with which he has kept himself from aging. He also can directly effect others and controls a monster (RaĂșl Urquijo) that he keeps in a cell, but no one knows
Police detective Jimmy Kelly (Wally Ford) and ex-department store detective Marjorie Burns (Barbara Pepper) are in a hurry to get married so hop across the border to the Red Rock Tavern, which is instead an innâI suppose when the producers couldnât find a tavern set for cheap they decided it was too much effort to
Depressed, jealous, opium-addicted choirmaster John Jasper (Claude Rains) is obsessed by Rosa Bud (Heather Angel), who is the fiancĂ©e of his nephew, Edwin Droodâs (David Manners). She finds Jasperâs attentions creepy, though she keeps it to herself. Neville Landless (Douglass Montgomery) and his sister Helena (Valerie Hobson), of mixed racial heritage, come to town with Neville falling