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The Mask Of Fu Manchu (1932)
“British Government!? I’ll wipe them and the whole accursed white race off the face of the earth!” Director: Charles Brabin and Charles Vidor (uncredited) Starring: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Myrna Loy, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Jean Hersholt, Lawrence Grant, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, Boris Karloff, Charles Brabin, Charles Starrett, Charles Vidor, David Torrence, Edgar Allan Woolf, Horror, Irene Kuhn, Jean Hersholt, John Willard, Karen Morley, Lawrence Grant, Lewis Stone, Myrna Loy, pre-Code, Roundtable, Sax Rohmer, science fiction, Yellow Peril
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Frankenstein (1931)
“It’s alive! It’s alive! In the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!” Director: James Whale Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Edward Van Sloan, Mae Clarke, Dwight Frye, John Boles, Frederick Kerr, Marilyn … Continue reading
Posted in Science fiction
Tagged 1930s, artificial life, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Francis Edwards Faragoh, Frederick Kerr, Garrett Fort, Horror, James Whale, John Boles, John L. Balderston, Lionel Belmore, mad science, Mae Clarke, Marilyn Harris, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Michael Mark, Peggy Webling, science fiction, Universal
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The Mummy (1932)
“Oh! Amon-Ra – Oh! God of gods! Death is but the doorway to new life— We live today; we shall live again— In many forms shall we return – Oh, mighty one.” Director: Karl Freund Starring: Boris Karloff, Zita … Continue reading
College Coach (1933)
Director: William A. Wellman Starring: Pat O’Brien, Dick Powell, Lyle Talbot, Ann Dvorak, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Byron, Donald Meek, Arthur Hohl, Guinn Williams, Nat Pendleton, Ward Bond, Joe Sauers (Joe Sawyer), John Wayne Screenplay: Niven Busch and Manuel Seff … Continue reading
Yellow Jack (1938)
Director: George B. Seitz Starring: Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Henry Hull, Charles Coburn, Alan Curtis, Sam Levene, Buddy Ebsen, William Henry, C. Henry Gordon, Jonathan Hale, Henry O’Neill Screenplay: Edward Chodorov, based upon the play by Sidney Howard … Continue reading
Posted in Science in the Reel World
Tagged 1930s, Aristides Agramonte, Carlos Finlay, Charles Coburn, Clara Maass, Cuba, drama, Edward Chodorov, Frank Puglia, George B. Seitz, James Carroll, Jesse Lazear, Lewis Stone, Paul De Kruif, Robert Montgomery, science, Sidney Howard, Stanley Ridges, true story, Virginia Bruce, Walter Reed, yellow fever
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The Story Of Louis Pasteur (1936)
Director: William Dieterle Starring: Paul Muni, Fritz Leiber, Josephine Hutchinson, Donald Woods, Henry O’Neill, Porter Hall, Anita Louise, Raymond Brown, Akim Tamiroff, Halliwell Hobbes, Walter Kingsford, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Dickie Moore, Ruth Robinson, Herbert Corthell Screenplay: Sheridan Gibney, Pierre Collings and … Continue reading
Posted in Science in the Reel World
Tagged 1930s, Akim Tamiroff, Anita Louise, biopic, Donald Woods, drama, Edward Van Sloan, Fritz Leiber, Halliwell Hobbes, Henry O'Neill, Joseph Lister, Josephine Hutchinson, Louis Pasteur, medical research, Paul Muni, Porter Hall, science, true story, William Dieterle
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The Silver Cord (1933)
Director: John Cromwell Starring: Irene Dunne, Laura Hope Crews, Joel McCrea, Eric Linden, Frances Dee, Gustav von Seyffertitz Screenplay: Jane Murfin, based upon the play by Sidney Howard Damaging mothers were everywhere in the American drama … Continue reading
Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932)
“My life is consecrated to a great experiment. I tell you, I will prove your kinship with the ape! Erik’s blood shall be mixed with the blood of man!” Director: Robert Florey Starring: Bela Lugosi, Leon Waycoff (Leon Ames), … Continue reading
Posted in Horror
Tagged 1930s, 19th century, Arlene Francis, Bela Lugosi, Brandon Hurst, Charles Gemora, Dale Van Every, Edgar Allan Poe, Ethel M. Kelly, evolution, Horror, John Huston, killer animal, Leon Ames, mad science, Noble Johnson, Paris, Robert Florey, Sidney Fox, Tom Reed, Universal
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and you call yourself a scientist!? 