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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929069873
Feature: KARLOFF & LUGOSI HORROR CLASSICS (DVD MOVIE)
Format: Black & White, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 1000096172
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 06, 2009
Running Time: 309 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Features:- KARLOFF & LUGOSI HORROR CLASSICS (DVD MOVIE)
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/06/2009 Run time: 327 minutes
Amazon.com:
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi are the magic names when it comes to a bygone era of horror, and quite a bit of that magic is still afoot in Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics, a two-disc, four-film set that gathers some of their lower-profile appearances. Karloff reigns supreme on the first disc, delivering a soulful performance in 1936's The Walking Dead, one of his life-after-execution pictures. Here Edmund Gwenn is the professor applying his reanimation technique to the unjustly electrocuted Karloff; revenge killings ensue--or is it karma? Michael Curtiz's energetic direction reminds you that he rarely phoned it in. Karloff takes on the Frankenstein family name (not the Monster garb) in Frankenstein 1970 (1958), which allows him quite a long leash and more than a few doomy speeches. It gets off to a great start and has a promising "meta" setup (a movie crew is at the Frankenstein castle in order to get authentic atmosphere for their horror picture), but it falls off pretty badly.
The second disc boasts You'll Find Out, a 1940 curiosity that not only brings Karloff and Lugosi together, but throws in Peter Lorre for an extra treat. With all that, who cares if the movie is really a vehicle for the popular radio personality Kay Kyser (and his "Kollege of Musical Knowledge")? Kyser's zany style, complete with sidekicks such as the ineffable Ish Kabibble, actually translates fairly well to the screen, and the movie cheerfully follows the blueprint of a screwball-paced haunted-house comedy. Even disappointed horror mavens will warm to the sight of Karloff, Lugosi, and Lorre huddled together, plotting no good.
Zombies on Broadway is a 1945 B-picture that probably ought to be unwatchable, but in fact it's quite competent (director Gordon Douglas was a versatile pro) and often fun. The headliners are Wally Brown and Alan Carney, whose sub-Abbott and Costello repartee is generally painful, although one grave-digging joke pays off nicely. Lugosi has a meaty role as a Caribbean hoodoo doctor who creates zombies in his jungle laboratory (shades of his White Zombie character). The film was made at RKO, home to Val Lewton's legendary horror unit, and is actually something of a send-up of Lewton's I Walked with a Zombie--complete with two of IWWAZ's notable cast members, the looming revenant Darby Jones and honey-voiced calypso singer Sir Lancelot. For fans of the terror titans, a respectable set, even if the chills are scarce. --Robert Horton
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For French buyers: it's not written on this site or on the box set, but THERE ARE French subtitles, of very good quality, available on these DVDs for all four films.
Enjoy 4 films of varying quality, every one of them worth watching (FRANKENSTEIN 1970 was a nice surprise), with crystal clear sound and picture, with the exception of THE WALKING DEAD which is a bit fuzzy around the edges, well it is also the older of the lot so it's very acceptable. No reviews of the films here, many users have ... Read More
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I urge you to buy this collection for the movie "You'll find Out".
One dark and stormy night... there was this gorgous 40's horror-comedy.
WHO: A beautiful young heiress. A few classic "who-done-it" guests. Plus, swinging "Kay Kyser and his collage of musical knowledge."
WHERE: A huge spooky mansion cramed full of attractive young girl friends, stuffed tigers, african tribal masks, and looming tikis.
WHEN: A dark stormy night, and (of course) the ... Read More
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As others have pointed out, what you're really buying this set for is "The Walking Dead," a very nice little film (66 minutes)from 1936 starring Boris Karloff at the height of his horror-icon fame. The best of the many Karloff-back-from-the-dead revenge films,"The Walking Dead" is actually more of a supernatural mobster movie then a horror vehicle. But it's nicely photographed and is directed by Warner's any-genre ace Michael Curtiz, who later helmed "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and "Casablanca." Karloff ... Read More
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I agree with those who feel that this two disc collection of four films featuring the two horror greats Karloff and Lugosi should NOT be subtitled "Horror Classics." None of the films are true "classics" and only two qualify as strictly "horror" and even that is debatable.
Having said that, these movies are fun! "The Walking Dead" directed by the versatile and famous Michael Curtiz is the best of the bunch and is a moody, thoughtful, quiet probing of the mysteries of Life and Death and Vengeance ... Read More
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As a Karloff/Lugosi fan I was curious about getting this set, knowing that 3 of the movies Frankenstein 1970, Youll Find Out & Zombies on Broadway were all given less than stellar reviews..while The Walking Dead is supposed to be a great flick.
THE WALKING DEAD basically is about Boris Karloff coming back to life after being killed by electric shock in prison. He was accused of a murder which he didnt commit. He comes back to life and gets his revenge on those who have framed him. He is brought back to life ... Read More
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