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Ep 28 - THE BLACK CAT (1934): A TRUE UNIVERSAL CLASSIC TURNS 90!!
THE BLACK CAT (1934) d. Edgar G. Ulmer (USA)
Bearing no resemblance to the original story by Edgar Allan Poe, Universal's atmosphere-drenched 1934 offering, The Black Cat, from Austrian expatriate Edgar G. Ulmer, is a superior piece of filmmaking, made all the more historic for marking the first and finest on-screen teaming of horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
The storyline of mysterious doctor Vitus Werdegast (Lugosi) and an American couple (David Manners, Julie Bishop aka Jacqueline Wells) taking refuge during a rainstorm in a secluded Hungarian mansion is a bit muddled (due in…
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