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⭐⭐⭐ 70min A woman in shock is sent to the madhouse of Vincent Price
So there is this woman who is in shock because she has witnessed a murder. She is sent to a madhouse where the murderer now is her shrink.
Now this one didn’t age well, and while it’s not bad ittoday is mostly for those who really are into old movies. For the rest of us the most interesting thing in it is that Vincent Price looked actually good before he grew a beard.
Bela Lugosi leads a double life as a professor and a gangster. 61min imdb
Movie 61min
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Bela Lugosi runs a soup kitchen in the Bowery. Wut? Wait! Bela Lugosi is a professor by day and a gangleader by night, and he uses a soup kitchen as his headquarters and recruitment office. He is an extremely friendly and well-mannered man, smiling at people even when he has them killed. Trouble is that the unsuspecting young woman that helps him is the girlfriend of one of his students.
Of course it’s always a pleasure to see Bela Lugosi, and this is a nice old fashioned crime flick, but it’s really nothing special. What bothers me most is that I found it in a list of zombie movies. So should you watch this you better not blink, or you will miss them. I don’t even tag this as a zombie movie and I recommend it only to friends of old fashioned crime movies or fans o Bela Lugosi.
John Carradine tries to create an army of voodoo zombies. With Mantan Moreland and Madame Sul-Te-Wan. 61min imdb
Movie 58min
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So there is this man who goes to Florida because his sister has died, and he brings a friend (a cop) and his driver, a black stereotype comic relief. We soon find out that the sister has been poisoned with a zombie drug, and that’s not even the only fishy thing that’s going on.
So this one has John Carradine in it, but apart from that it’s pretty much the same as King Of The Zombies. Trouble is that Mantan Moreland this time is not zombiefied, which was the one thing that made the first movie worthwhile. I even file this one as horror, it’s not that it’s too eerie to be a comedy, but too unfunny.
Silly caribbean adventure with zombies, voodoo, hypnosis and what have you. With Mantan Moreland and Madame Sul-Te-Wan 67min imdb
So there is a storm, and a plane lands on a mysterious island. The pilot and his two passengers find first a graveyard and then a manor where they can spend the night. Then, a whole lot happens, because the house is full of secret passages, undead zombies, a hypnotised woman, a love interest, a voodoo priestess and an american admiral who was imprisoned by the master of the house who claims to be austrian but really is a german spy.
Well, all in all the movie is rather so-so. It’s creepier and zombier than, say, Revolt Of The Zombies, but that doesn’t say much. And it’s not so much a semicreepy horror movie but rather a semifunny comedy. The one who keeps the story going is Mantan Moreland, a skilled comedian who plays the ungrateful part of the superstitious black coward as a comic relief for the white 1940s moviegoers, but the more I think about it, the more I come to the conclusion that he is the most sympathetic zombie that I’ve seen so far. But I don’t know whether that’s reason enough to watch this movie.
So there is this professor wo suffers serious brain damage in an accident. His best friend, a doctor, performs a brain transplantation, using a criminal as organ donor. Indeed, the professor recovers, and it takes a while until the criminal’s personality takes over more and more often. Good thing too, the doctor thinks, because he wants to get the gangster’s lost money.
Makes you wonder: why is the doctor surprised when the man with the criminal’s brain starts acting like the criminal? Everybody who watches the movie must be surprised that the professor remained pretty much himself at first. Another thing that I don’t understand is the casting. In the first place it was planned that Karloff would be the professor and Lugosi the doctor. But then Karloff was the doctor and Lugosi played a gangster with precious little screen time.
Pity. While I do appreciate the old-fashioned b&w screen gems I must say that this is not one of them. It’s a wasted chance.
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At last: Harpos long awaited solo movie, co-starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Marilyn Monroe and Raymond Burr.
Harpo works as caterer for a musical production. Chico is on the crew because he knows how to handle the man who wants money for the sets and costumes. Groucho is after the hot woman who is after the royal Romanoff diamonds, which are hidden in a can of sardines which Harpo stole.
Of course, Duck Soup was better, and so were, I assume, the even older movies that I didn’t see. Yaddayaddayada. I know that kind of talk because I used to talk in this fashion myself. But that was long ago, I have seen a ton of other movies since, and after rewatching it now I must say: wow! Funny! Entertaining!
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Trivia: They say that Harpo wanted to make a solo movie, but Chico had to be in it because of his gambling depts, and the investors insisted on Groucho. Also in the cast: not so important actors like Raymond Burr and Marilyn Monroe.
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