Before I Hang is a rather enjoyable Boris Karloff film, with a fine supporting cast, and a strong theme: the allure of eternal life. And a strong question: is murder in the blood?
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Island of Lost Souls. After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. But when he gets into a fight with the captain of the ship that rescued him, the captain maroons him while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Moreau is very secretive, and Parker discovers why. The doctor is a whip-cracking cruel task master to a growing population of his own gruesome human/animal experiments. Only the beautiful Lota appears truly human … But she shows signs of her panther ancestry. Parker’s fortunes for escape look up after his fiancee Ruth finds him with the help of Captain Donohue. But Dr. Moreau has violated one of his own laws, and his bestial creations will hold him to account!
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Frank Morgan stars in a rare leading role in The Vanishing Virginian and does it well. It’s a sweet, tender story – with moments of bitter-sweetness. The funeral scene for Josh is truly touching, as well as giving Kathryn Grayson an opportunity to sing beautifully.
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To be clear, this is the original King Kong movie, not the 1976 remake, or the more recent remake by Peter Jackson. Both remakes are enjoyable in their own right although I strongly prefer Jackson’s. This is the original, a movie that is still watched more than 80 years after its original release. There are good reasons for that.
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Thelma Todd Picture Gallery — A gallery of posters and photographs of the famous actress, Thelma Todd.
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If you’re a fan of the Man-Thing from Marvel comics, be forewarned. The movie version has almost nothing in common with it. With the exception of the names of some of the characters, and (partly) the visible look of the monster.
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The Boy Who Cried Werewolf has divorced father Robert Bridgestone (Kerwin Mathews) is on a weekend outing with his son Richie (Scott Sealey) to their cabin. But late at night they are attacked by a werewolf. The creature is killed, but not before biting the father. And no one is willing to listen when Richie tries to warn people that his own father has become a werewolf.
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Godzilla movie list – a list of all of the released Godzilla movies so far, with Japanese and American versions where needed Updated 10/23/2020
Burnt Offerings is a very different, and very effective, haunted house movie. At no time does the audience see any sort of ghost or malevolent entity. Only the effects on the people in the house, making it more frightening.
In Ghidorah The Three-Headed Monster, a meteor crashes to Earth. With a danger hidden within that will threaten the entire world. Only the combined might of Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra can stand against it. But neither Godzilla nor Rodan cares to help humanity since they’ve both been attacked by them numerous times. How can Mothra persuade them to work together before it’s too late?
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