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Flashy 5 DVD set of 13 Bela Lugosi and 4 Boris Karloff publi

Rudolf Schmid | Kensington, CA | 11/20/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This DVD set is part of Brentwood/BCI's "Legends of Hollywood" series nicely presented in white cases bearing Al Hirschfeld artwork. The 5 double-sided DVDs contain 17 public-domain films, 13 for Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), 4 for Boris Karloff (1887-1969). The 14 B&W and 3 color public-domain films vary greatly in quality from mostly poor or fair to occasionally fairly decent (e.g., The human monster). Watching these films evokes childhood memories of viewing iffy technical-quality movies on TV during the 1950s and 1960s. The 17 films are (4:3, DD2.0/5.1, TT17:20):
DVD #/side
1B: Ape, The (AKA Gorilla) (1940) (Boris Karloff)
1A: Ape man, The (1943) (Bela Lugosi)
2A: Black dragons (1942) (Bela Lugosi)
3B: Boys from Brooklyn, The (AKA Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn gorilla) (1952) (Bela Lugosi)
5B: Corpse vanishes, The (AKA The case of the missing brides--UK) (1942) (Bela Lugosi)
3A: Death kiss, The (1932) (Bela Lugosi)
1B: Devil bat, The (1940) (Bela Lugosi)
1B: Dick Tracy meets Gruesome (1947) (Boris Karloff)
5A: Gorilla, The (1939) (Bela Lugosi)
2B: Human monster, The (US; AKA The dark eyes of London) (1940) (Bela Lugosi)
4B: Invisible ghost (1941) (Bela Lugosi)
1A: Mysterious Mr. Wong, The (1934) (Bela Lugosi)
--: Phantom creeps, The (AKA The shadow creeps) (1939 12-episode serial), episodes 3-6, 9-12 (Bela Lugosi) [DVD # = episode: 5A = 3, 5B = 4, 2A = 5, 2B = 6, 3A = 9, 10, 3B = 11, 12]
1A: Scared to death (1947) (Bela Lugosi) (color)
4A: Snake people (AKA Isle of the snake people--US) (1971) (Boris Karloff) (color)
1B: Terror, The (1964) (AKA The castle of Terror) (Boris Karloff) (color)
1A: White Zombie (1932) (Bela Lugosi)
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff appeared together in 8 films, but none of these are represented here.
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