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White Zombie [DVD](1932) DVD An overlooked but impressively moody early horror film set on a Haitian plantation whose workers are members of that most elite of clubs, the "living dead." Bela Lugosi stars as the leader of the zombies; with Madge Bellamy, Robert Frazer. 73 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; audio commentary; interviews; theatrical trailer. The Gorilla (1939)/Nabonga [DVD](1944) DVD Haunted house hi-jinx with the Ritz Brothers as bumbling private eyes investigating a series of murders. Their main suspect...a gorilla? Patsy Kelly helps with the laughs; Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi supply the chills. Then, a gorilla named Nabonga warms up to a teenage girl whose plane, which was also carrying a bundle of embezzled cash, crash lands in the Belgian Congo. Years later, Buster Crabbe sets out after the girl and must do battle with villains after the lost booty. With Julie London. 141 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo. The Human Monster (1939)/Mystery Liner [DVD](1934) DVD Moody thriller, based on an Edgar Wallace story, stars Bela Lugosi as the diabolical Dr. Orloff, who takes in blind vagrants and then tortures and kills them for the insurance money. With Greta Gynt, Hugh Williams. AKA: "Dark Eyes of London." "Dead Eyes of London." Then, deranged captain Noah Beery, Sr. and watchman George "Gabby" Hayes are just two of the suspicious seafarers in this well-made Monogram suspenser, as spies resort to murder to stop an inventor from testing his ship-controlling device. With Ralph Lewis, Astrid Allwyn. 137 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo. The Corpse Vanishes (1942)/Devil Bat [DVD](1940) DVD Bela Lugosi is great in this horror tale of a sinister mad scientist who kidnaps and murders brides in order to rejuvenate his aging wife. With Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin. Then, kindly country doctor Bela Lugosi is not suspected to be the crazy fiend who trains his bats to attack anyone wearing a certain perfume. Also starring Dave O'Brien, of "Reefer Madness" fame. AKA: "Killer Bat." 133 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono. Bela Lugosi Double Feature [DVD] DVD Includes "The Invisible Ghost" and "The Corpse Vanishes." 128 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono; scene access. Invisible Ghost [DVD](1941) DVD Bela Lugosi stars as a doctor unnerved by the apparent reappearance of his late wife. What follows is a web of deception, murder and terror. Betty Compson, Peggy Ann Young and Clarence Muse co-star. 64 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono. The Mysterious Mr. Wong [DVD](1935) DVD Great mystery-adventure stars Bela Lugosi as a malevolent mandarin with an arcane scheme for conquest and Wallace Ford as the hard-nosed reporter who's out to stop him. 62 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono. Bowery At Midnight [DVD](1942) DVD Creepy mystery starring Bela Lugosi as a psychology professor who uses a mission as a front for his criminal deeds. When people become aware of his activities, Lugosi has them killed and buried in a basement, then revives them with a special drug. John Archer and Wanda McKay co-star. 60 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono; scene access. Plays All Regions. Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla [DVD](1952) DVD What could possibly top a title like that? Mad scientist Bela needs human subjects he can turn into apes, when who should turn up at his jungle lab but Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo, two Martin and Lewis clones whose act was the subject of several lawsuits. Reportedly filmed in two weeks for $20,000...and it shows! AKA: "The Boys from Brooklyn." 72 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono. Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; interview. Phantom Ship [DVD](1935) DVD This suspense thriller, based on an actual event, concerns the Mary Celeste, a ship found in the middle of the ocean in 1872 at full sail, but without a single person on board and no clue as to the crew's whereabouts! Bela Lugosi plays a mad seaman seeking revenge against those who wronged him; Shirley Grey and Arthur Margaretson co-star. AKA: "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste." 62 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono. White Zombie [DVD](1932) DVD An overlooked but impressively moody early horror film set on a Haitian plantation whose workers are members of that most elite of clubs, the "living dead." Bela Lugosi stars as the leader of the zombies; with Madge Bellamy, Robert Frazer. 73 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono. Plays All Regions. The Human Monster [DVD](1939) DVD Moody thriller, based on an Edgar Wallace story, stars Bela Lugosi as the diabolical Dr. Orloff, who takes in blind vagrants and then tortures and kills them for the insurance money. With Greta Gynt, Hugh Williams. AKA: "Dark Eyes of London," "Dead Eyes of London." 73 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono; scene access. Plays All Regions. The Devil Bat [DVD](1940) DVD Kindly country doctor Bela Lugosi is not suspected to be the crazy fiend who trains his bats to attack anyone wearing a certain perfume. Also starring Dave O'Brien, of "Reefer Madness" fame. AKA: "Killer Bat." 67 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. The Ape Man [DVD](1943) DVD Bela Lugosi is the doctor monkeying around with the forces of Nature, only to turn into a rampaging man-beast in this low-budget shocker from William "One Shot" Beaudine ("Billy the Kid vs. Dracula"). 64 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo. Plays All Regions. The Death Kiss [DVD](1932) DVD A movie studio is shrouded in mystery when its top star is murdered on the set, and everyone is a suspect. Bela Lugosi plays a temperamental actor who's the most likely suspect, alongside "Dracula" co-stars Edward Van Sloan, David Manners. 72 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. The Gorilla [DVD](1939) DVD Haunted house hi-jinx with the Ritz Brothers as bumbling private eyes investigating a series of murders. Their main suspect...a gorilla? Patsy Kelly helps with the laughs; Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi supply the chills. 63 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono; scene access. Plays All Regions. Postal Inspector [DVD](1936) DVD Ricardo Cortez stars as the hero of one of the government's unsung branches, hot on the trail of mail thief Bela Lugosi. Unusual crime thriller features a look at quack medical projects actually sold through the mail and newsreel footage of '30s floods in the eastern U.S. With Patricia Ellis, Hattie McDaniel. 58 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. Return Of The Vampire [DVD](1943) DVD Bloodsucker Bela Lugosi is on the prowl in war-torn London, starting his own bloody blitzkrieg in this effective low-budget chiller that also stars Nina Foch and Matt Willis as Lugosi's werewolf henchman. 70 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Spanish; theatrical trailers. Scared To Death [DVD](1947) DVD A mad hypnotist, his dwarf sidekick, and a dead woman who relates the eerie circumstances that led to her demise all make for an eerie tale of horror. Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Joyce Compton, Angelo Rossitto star; Lugosi's only color film. 67 min.Standard; Soundtrack: English mono. Plays All Regions. Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla [DVD](1952) DVD What could possibly top a title like that? Mad scientist Bela needs human subjects he can turn into apes, when who should turn up at his jungle lab but Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo, two Martin and Lewis clones whose act was the subject of several lawsuits. Reportedly filmed in two weeks for $20,000...and it shows! AKA: "The Boys from Brooklyn." 72 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono. Plays All Regions. Invisible Ghost [DVD](1941) DVD Bela Lugosi stars as a doctor unnerved by the apparent reappearance of his late wife. What follows is a web of deception, murder and terror. Betty Compson, Peggy Ann Young and Clarence Muse co-star. 64 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono. Plays All Regions. Chandu On The Magic Island [DVD](1934) DVD Condensed feature taken from the classic "Return of Chandu" serial starring Bela Lugosi at his best, saving the leading lady and using his mystical powers to become invisible. Do those sets look familiar? They did to King Kong. With Clara Kimball Young, Maria Alba. 65 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. One Body Too Many [DVD](1944) DVD Insurance salesman Jack Haley must guard the body of a deceased millionaire until his will is read, but the corpse vanishes--and other bodies start taking its place--in this creepy mystery/comedy. Bela Lugosi plays a sinister butler; with Jean Parker, Lyle Talbot. 76 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. The Corpse Vanishes [DVD](1942) DVD Bela Lugosi is great in this horror tale of a sinister mad scientist who kidnaps and murders brides in order to rejuvenate his aging wife. Luana Walters, Minerva Urecal and Angelo Rossitto also star. 64 min. The Return Of Chandu (Feature Version) [DVD](1934) DVD You'll lose yourself in Bela Lugosi's hypnotic gaze when he stars as that mystic do-gooder, Chandu the Magician (although, in the 1932 film of the same name, he played Chandu's enemy, Roxor). In this feature version of the serial, Lugosi uses his powers to rescue a kidnapped woman from a black magic cult on the island of Lemuria. Maria Alba, Dean Benton also star. 60 min. Shadow Of Chinatown (Feature Version) [DVD](1936) DVD Feature version of the serial casts Bela Lugosi as a sinister scientific madman who terrorizes the shady characters and merchants of a seedy Chinatown district. An atmospheric visit to the inscrutable underworld of extortionists and their victims, also starring Herman Brix. 70 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. The Phantom Creeps (Feature Version) [DVD](1939) DVD Bela Lugosi stars as the fiendish scientist Dr. Zorka, whose discovery of a mysterious substance from a fallen meteorite could spell doom for the free world. Action and danger with Robert Kent, Regis Toomey. 77 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. The Bela Lugosi Collection [DVD] DVD "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932) stars Bela Lugosi as a mad doctor whose sideshow is a front for bizarre experiments that involve kidnapping beautiful young women and injecting them with blood from his pet gorilla. Then, Lugosi and Boris Karloff team up for the first time in "The Black Cat" (1934), Edgar G. Ulmer's macabre chiller about a Balkan castle, built over a WWI graveyard, that becomes the site for a battle of wills between psychiatrist Lugosi and devil-worshipper Karloff. Next, "The Raven" (1935) stars Lugosi as a Poe-obsessed plastic surgeon who invites a beautiful patient, her fiance and her father to his retreat and, with the aid of criminal Karloff, imprisons and tortures them. With Irene Ware, Samuel Hinds. A radioactive me Dracula (75th Anniversary Edition) [DVD](1931) DVD After starring in the title role on Broadway, Bela Lugosi became forever identified with the bloodsucking count in director Tod Browning's Gothic film adaptation. Follow Dracula from his Transylvanian castle to England as he ensnares the unwary in his diabolical schemes. With Dwight Frye, Helen Chandler, Edward Van Sloan. This two-disc set also includes the Spanish version of "Dracula," filmed (appropriately) at night on the same Universal sets as the Lugosi film being made simultaneously. Stars Lupita Tovar, Carmen Guerrero, and Carlos Villarias in the title role. 179 min. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish; audio commentary; featurette; documentary. Dracula: The Legacy Collection [DVD] DVD Toothy two-disc set of Universal chillers opens with director Tod Browning's "Dracula" (1931), with Bela Lugosi defining the title role of Bram Stoker's vampire lord; with Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan. Next, the Spanish-language version of "Dracula" (1931), shot simultaneously on the Universal sets and noted for its erotic style, stars Carlos Villarias and Lupita Tovar. Then, Gloria Holden is "Dracula's Daughter" (1936), trying to end her undead life and battling Van Sloan's Van Helsing; Count Alucard (spell it backwards) comes to America in the form of Lon Chaney, Jr. in "Son of Dracula" (1943); and the Wolf Man and Frankenstein Monster are guests in the "House of Dracula" (1945), with Chaney and John Carradine. 6 3/4 hrs. The Bela Lugosi Box: 15 Frightful Films [DVD] DVD The seductively evil horror king Bela Lugosi appears in 15 chiller classics in this five-disc set. The silent soaper "The Midnight Girl" (1925) features a pre-Dracula Lugosi as the suave and shady patron of a Russian opera singer (Lila Lee) newly come to America. Also includes "White Zombie," "The Death Kiss," "Chandu on the Magic Island," "The Return of Chandu," "The Mysterious Mr. Wong," "The Dark Eyes of London (The Human Monster)," "The Devil Bat," "The Corpse Vanishes," "Bowery at Midnight," "The Ape Man," "Scared to Death" (1947), "Glen or Glenda?," "Bride of the Monster," and "Plan 9 from Outer Space"; also features the short documentary tribute "100 Years of Horror: Bela Lugosi," hosted by Christopher Lee. The Deerslayer And Chingachgook [DVD](1920) DVD Believed lost for many years, this silent German adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Deerslayer" features Bela Lugosi as Chingachgook--the last of the Mohicans. As a young frontiersman helps him on his quest to rescue his love from a roving band of Iroquois Indians, he sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. With Emile Mamelok, Herta Heden. Standard; Soundtrack: music score. Plays All Regions. Silent with music score. The Phantom Creeps [DVD](1939) DVD The always-sinister Bela Lugosi stars as evil Dr. Zorka, whose weapons in his scare-a-minute battle for world domination include an invisibility belt, mechanical spider bombs, a giant robot and a substance that causes suspended animation. Exciting chapterplay also stars Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold. 12 episodes; 4 hrs. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. Shadow Of Chinatown [DVD](1936) DVD As a sinister scientific madman, Bela Lugosi terrorizes the shady characters and merchants of a seedy Chinatown district. An atmospheric visit to the inscrutable underworld of extortionists and their victims, also starring Herman Brix. 15 chapters; 4 3/4 hrs. on two discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English. Plays All Regions. The Return Of Chandu [DVD](1934) DVD You'll lose yourself in Bela Lugosi's hypnotic gaze when he stars as that mystic do-gooder, Chandu the Magician (although, in the 1932 film of the same name, he played Chandu's enemy, Roxor). In this exciting serial, Lugosi uses his powers to rescue a kidnapped woman from a black magic cult on the island of Lemuria. Maria Alba, Dean Benton also star. 12 chapters; 3 1/2 hrs. Standard; Soundtrack: English mono; scene access. Plays All Regions. |
