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mariocki · 1 month

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Night Key (1937)

"Now, listen, Steve. Twenty years ago you robbed me of the patent rights of the system that you're now using. Perhaps there was some excuse for that: because it gave you wealth, success, position, all the things that tempt one man to rob another. But now that you have everything and I have nothing, what possible reason is there for you to do this to me again?"

#night key #lloyd corrigan #1937 #boris karloff #tristram tupper #jack moffitt #william a. pierce #warren hull #jean rogers #alan baxter #hobart cavanaugh #samuel s. hinds #david oliver #ward bond #frank reicher #edwin maxwell #george cleveland #george humbert #charles c. wilson #light hearted karloff vehicle which doesn't really deserve the sci fi label it's been given; yes‚ BK is an inventor of slightly fantastical #gadgets‚ but mostly this film is concerned with big business skullduggery with a side of organised crime. Karloff‚ as he often did‚ is #playing older than he was but he's very good and highly sympathetic as the doddery old prof. there's lots of good performances here‚ from #Jean Rogers' charming daughter to Warren Hull's romantic interest (much less tiresome than the usual role fillers in these movies) and #special mention to Hobart C as a delightfully seedy smalltime crook who attaches himself to BK like a stray dog. the only dud note is #Alan Baxter's weirdly monotone turn as the big bad‚ lacking any of the threat the character needs. the ending is twee and silly and there's #some (understandably) shaky fx work but this is genuinely a very fun time and a pleasant change from the usual Karloff vehicle of the era #one jarring moment: there's a very brief moment where a plot related news bulletin is heard on the radio‚ and as soon as it's finished the #news announcer begins to turn to the 'news from Spain' but the radio is switched off and the film moves on before we hear any more; this is #1937 remember‚ a moment of global tumult and thick in the gathering storm of the years to come but this is the only moment that the real #world is allowed to intrude into the charming and slighty silly world of eccentric inventors and sinister crooks

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rat-hand · 7 months

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Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds, and Bela Lugosi in The Raven (1935)

#if I was her I would have broken it off with my other man immediately #her character is far stronger than I #like if bela Lugosi looked at me like that I would probably do anything he asked #he’s just so perfect #bela lugosi #irene ware #Samuel S. Hinds #the raven 1935

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fourorfivemovements · 7 months

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Films Watched in 2023: 97. Man-Made Monster (1941) - Dir. George Waggner

#Man-Made Monster #George Waggner #Lionel Atwill #Lon Chaney Jr.#Anne Nagel #Frank Albertson #Samuel S. Hinds #William B. Davidson #Ben Taggart #Films Watched in 2023 #My Edits #My Post

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letterboxd-loggd · 1 year

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Scarlet Street (1945) Fritz Lang

December 2nd 2022

#scarlet street #1945 #fritz lang #edward g. robinson #joan bennett #dan duryea #margaret lindsay #rosalind ivan #jess barker #russell hicks #charles kemper #samuel s. hinds

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character-actor-tournament · 1 year

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Round 1, Match 26

Christian Rub vs Samuel S. Hinds

#christian rub #samuel s. hinds #samuel hinds #character actors #old hollywood #tournament poll

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raynbowclown · 4 months

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She

She 1935 – an excellent adaptation of the novel, the immortal She Who Must Be Obeyed – and she thinks she’s found her reincarnated lover. Whom she murdered centuries ago, for suspicion of being unfaithful. She’s beautiful, cruel, capricious. Can his friends rescue Leo before it’s too late? Continue reading She

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#1935 #Gustav von Seyffertitz #Helen Mack #Lumsden Hare #Nigel Bruce #Noble Johnson #Randolph Scott #Samuel S. Hinds

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screenshothaven · 5 months

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Destry Rides Again (1939)

#Destry Rides Again #1939 #western film #George Marshall #Marlene Dietrich #Samuel S. Hinds #James Stewart #Una Merkel

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noteverticali · 1 year

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L'eterna illusione: la fantasia di Frank Capra vince sul pragmatismo

James Stewart e Lionel Barrymore in una commedia del 1938 che fa ancora riflettere sulle cose belle della vita. La famiglia Kirby vive avvantaggiando il lato qualitativo dell’esistenza. Il nonno ha raccolto nella grande casa più generazioni d’individui con il solo obbligo di perseguire i sogni. Dalla scrittrice al musicista, dal pittore al comico, tutti in casa Kirby non si arrendono…

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badgaymovies · 2 years

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Test Pilot (1938)

Test Pilot by #VictorFleming starring #ClarkGable, #MyrnaLoy and #SpencerTracy, "Gable and Loy are incredibly sexy together",

VICTOR FLEMING Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB USA, 1938. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Story by Frank Wead, Screenplay by Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young. Cinematography by Ray June. Produced by Louis D. Lighton. Music by Franz Waxman. Production Design by Cedric Gibbons. Costume Design by Dolly Tree, Margaret Wood. Film Editing by Tom Held. Clark Gable is a dashing, spirited daredevil pilot who tests new…

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thewarmestplacetohide · 3 months

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Dread by the Decade: The Raven

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Year: 1935 Genre: Psychological Horror, Gothic Rating: UR (Recommended: PG-13) Country: USA Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 1 minute

Director: Lew Landers Cinematographer: Charles Stumar Editor: Albert Akst Composer: Clifford Vaughan Writer: David Boehm Cast: Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds, Boris Karloff, Lester Matthews, Inez Courtney, Ian Wolfe

Plot: A doctor becomes violently obsessed with a young dancer after saving her life.

Review: Despite some issues with uneven tone and characterization, this film's solid performances and dynamic sets make it a fun, campy ride.

Overall Rating: 3/5

Story: 3/5 - This standard tale of obsession is elevated some by the almost meta way in which the villain tries to steer it into gothic territory.

Performances: 3/5 - Ware, Hinds, and Karloff are all quite good and likable. Meanwhile, Lugosi fluctuates between maniacal and a bit too campy.

Cinematography: 3.5/5 - Not as stunning as some of its gothic contemporaries, but still engaging.

Editing: 3.5/5 - A few memorable dissolves.

Music: 2.5/5

Effects: 3.5/5

Sets: 4/5 - Really fun sets, including a gothic torture chamber, shrinking space, and room that turns into an elevator.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 2.5/5 - Mostly standard but solid. Karloff's make-up, though, is a bit cheap.

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Trigger Warnings:

Moderate but brief violence

Attempted torture

Ableism

Medical scenes

#The Raven (1935)#The Raven #Lew Landers #American #Dread by the Decade #1930s

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byneddiedingo · 6 months

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Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in The Raven (Lew Landers, 1935)

Cast: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds, Spencer Charters, Inez Courtney, Ian Wolfe, Maidel Turner. Screenplay: David Boehm. Cinematography: Charles J. Stumar. Art direction: Albert S. D'Agostino. Film editing: Albert Akst. Music: Clifford Vaughan.

The Criterion Channel includes The Raven in its collection of pre-Code horror movies, but in fact the movie started filming after the Production Code was introduced, and director Lew Landers had to negotiate over details in the script. The enforcers were nervous about "excess horror," and in particular wanted the film not to show any details of the operation that Dr. Vollin (Bela Lugosi) performs on Bateman's (Boris Karloff) face. Even so, censors took aim at what they called "horror for horror's sake," and The Raven was banned in several countries. The defense from Universal Studios that the movie was a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe impressed nobody. It's still a fairly creepy movie, largely because the filmmakers managed to include some torture devices from Poe's stories like "The Pit and the Pendulum." The poem "The Raven" mainly gives Dr. Vollin an excuse to explain to everyone that the bird is a symbol of death, but it also prompts a rather silly dance recital by the object of Vollin's obsession, Jean Thatcher (Irene Ware). Vollin is a neurosurgeon who saves Jean's life after she's injured in an automobile accident. She's engaged to another surgeon, Dr. Halden (Lester Matthews), and when her father, Judge Thatcher (Samuel S. Hinds), stymies Vollin's interest in Jean, Vollin takes his revenge. He has a collection of torture devices and an old house outfitted with gimmicks like a bedroom on an elevator and a secret room whose walls close in on people trapped in it. Karloff's Bateman is a bank robber who escaped from San Quentin and is on the run, so in the guise of giving him plastic surgery to change his identity, Vollin instead disfigures him, and then makes him play servant at a house party to which Halden, the Thatchers, and various other guests are invited. Madness ensues. The movie's chief virtue is brevity -- it runs 61 minutes -- so it never gets tedious even though it also never gets either scary or plausible.

#The Raven #Lew Landers #Bela Lugosi #Boris Karloff

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mariocki · 1 year

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Man-Made Monster (The Atomic Monster, 1941)

"Sometimes I think you're mad."

"I am! So was Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Pasteur, Lister, and all the others who dared to dream. Fifty years ago, a man was mad to think of anaesthesia; forty years ago, the idea of operating on the brain was madness. Today, we hold a human heart in our hands and watch it beat. Who can tell what tomorrow's madness may be?"

#man made monster #the atomic monster #the electric man #1941 #american cinema #horror film #universal monster cycle #(i mean it is and it isn't; certainly it's adjacent)#george waggner #lon chaney jr.#lionel atwill #anne nagel #frank albertson #samuel s. hinds #william b. davidson #ben taggart #constance bergen #ivan miller #chester gan #george meader #hans j. salter #disposable universal horror mishmash which succeeds largely due to the double whammy casting of two of my favourite from the universal #roster‚ Chaney jr and Atwill. the former plays to his strengths as the tragic monster as victim (a part he would perfect later in the year #in his iconic first appearance as the Wolf Man) while Atwill has an absolute ball of a time‚ waxing rhapsodic on his passion project of #producing electrical supermen and also repeatedly shrugging off accusations of madness with a 'yeah? and?'#the plot such as it is is absolute hokum (mad scientist investigates electrical immunity with plans to enslave people with electricity and #make an army of electric men.. or something) but it's an awful lot of fun and the modest effects are quite charming (inc. an angelic glow #for Chaney whenever he's in his electro man form). also this film isn't even an hour long and honestly we should go back to that #shorter films rule. this was rereleased under a couple of different titles over the years inc the Atomic Monster one once nuclear terrors #became the cool new thing (there's nothing really atomic here except that electricity is.. atoms.. maybe. im not a scientist. whatever)

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stubobnumbers · 10 months

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Jungle Woman (1944) Dir: Reginald Le Borg Starring: Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, and Samuel S. Hinds.

Paula the ape woman is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.

#movies #movie posters

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fourorfivemovements · 2 years

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Films Watched in 2022:

85. Pardon My Sarong (1942) - Dir. Erle C. Kenton

#Pardon My Sarong #Erle C. Kenton #Bud Abbott #Lou Costello #Virginia Bruce #Robert Paige #Lionel Atwill #Leif Erickson #Nan Wynn #Wiliam Demarest #Samuel S. Hinds #Marie McDonald #Janet Warren #Abbott and Costello #Films Watched in 2022 #My Edits #My Post

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letterboxd-loggd · 1 year

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Lady on a Train (1945) Charles David

December 21st 2022

#lady on a train #1945 #charles david #deanna durbin #david bruce #allen jenkins #edward everett horton #dan duryea #ralph bellamy #george coulouris #elizabeth patterson #patricia morison #maria palmer #jacqueline dewit #samuel s. hinds

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character-actor-tournament · 11 months

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Round 1 Results

Jesse White vs Joe Besser

Ed Wynn vs Broderick Crawford

Halliwell Hobbes vs Lionel Barrymore

Charlie Ruggles vs Ernest Thesiger

Frank Morgan vs Frank Jenks - tie

Betty Garrett vs Rags Ragland

Josephine Hull vs Mischa Auer

S.Z. Sakall vs Tom Dugan

Patsy Kelly vs Al St. John

Margaret Hamilton vs Edward Everett Horton

Nella Walker vs Hans Conried

Hattie McDaniel vs Billy Gilbert

Thurston Hall vs Leonid Kinskey

Marjorie White vs Eve Arden

Edward van Sloan vs Jack Oakie - tie

Charles Winninger vs Butterfly McQueen

Alan Mowbray vs Zasu Pitts

Charlotte Greenwood vs Henry Armetta

Marjorie Main vs Pat Buttram

William Demarest vs Bert Lahr

Marie Dressler vs Beulah Bondi

Una O'Connor vs Martha Raye

Dwight Frye vs Charles Coburn

Ned Sparks vs Esther Muir

Thelma Todd vs Elisha Cook Jr.

Christian Rub vs Samuel S. Hinds

Doodles Weaver vs Gail Patrick

Sydney Greenstreet vs Alice Brady

Roland Young vs John Carradine

James Gleason vs Verna Felton

Una Merkel vs Eugene Pallette

Willie Best vs Conrad Veidt

Maude Eburn vs Scatman Crothers

Guy Kibbee vs Walter Brennan - tie

Nat Pendleton vs Clarence Kolb

Jane Darwell vs Raymond Massey

Erich von Stroheim vs Barry Fitzgerald

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson vs Jack Carson

El Brendel vs Reginald Gardiner

Joseph Calleia vs Warren Hymer

Walter Slezak vs Sam Levene

Edna May Oliver vs Richard Lane

C. Aubrey Smith vs Charles Laughton

Gabby Hayes vs Red Buttons

Franklin Pangborn vs Elsa Lanchester

Lionel Atwill vs Martha Mattox

Bill Robinson vs Jessie Ralph

Andy Devine vs Harry Davenport

Richard Carle vs Ernest Truex

Edward Arnold vs Herman Bing

Cliff Edwards vs Sterling Holloway

George Zucco vs Nancy Kulp

Warner Oland vs Jean Adair

Gregory Ratoff vs Grady Sutton

Helen Broderick vs Glenda Farrell

Lillian Yarbo vs Arthur Edmund Carewe

Marjorie Gateson vs Hugh Herbert

Phil Silvers vs Joy Hodges

Ray Bolger vs George E. Stone

George Davis vs Donald Meek

Warner Baxter vs Jerry Colonna - tie

Spring Byington vs Stuart Erwin

Felix Bressart vs Angelo Rossitto

Eric Blore vs Billy Barty

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