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Actress: The Return of the Vampire. Tall, dark and regal Frieda Inescort's placid loveliness and dignified patrician features boded her well in Hollywood during the late 1930s and 1940s. Born on June 29, 1901 in Edinburgh, the Scots-born actress who began acting on stage, did not arrive in Hollywood until age 34 (then considered too late for ...
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During World War I, the vampire Armand Tesla stalks London. His latest victim is admitted to the clinic of Lady Jane Ainsley and her colleague, Professor Walter Saunders. They are baffled by what they regard as a severe case of anemia. The vampire infiltrates the clinic; unable to finish his previous victim because she had died from shock, he preys...
Bela Lugosi's scenes were filmed in August and September 1943, prior to his final two Monogram films. This was also the last time he would receive top billing by a major Hollywood studio.[citation needed] In his book Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen, David J. Skalwrites:
At the time of the film's release, a critic from The New York Timeswrote that nothing need be said about the film beyond its title and star to determine if one is interested in seeing it. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Return of the Vampire has an approval rating of 75% based on eight reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. In...
Rhodes, Gary Don (2006). Lugosi: His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-786-42765-9.Skal, David J. (2004). Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen. New York: Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-1-429-99845-1.The Return of the Vampire at the American Film Institute CatalogThe Return of the Vampire at IMDbThe Return of the Vampire at Rotten TomatoesThe Return of the Vampire at AllMovieThe Return of the Vampire (1943) as Lady Jane Ainsley; Heavenly Days (1944) as Ettie Clark; The Judge Steps Out (1948) as Evelyn Bailey; The Underworld Story (1950) as Mrs. Eldridge; A Place in the Sun (1951) as Mrs. Ann Vickers; Never Wave at a WAC (1953) as Lily Mae Gorham; Casanova's Big Night (1954) as Signora Di Gambetta; Foxfire (1955) as ...
The Return of the Vampire is a 1943 American horror film directed by Lew Landers and starring Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Miles Mander, Roland Varno, and Matt Willis. Its plot follows a vampire named Armand Tesla, who has two encounters with Englishwoman Lady Jane Ainsley, the first...
Mar 6, 2019 · Starring: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Matt Willis, Nina Foch. USA. AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY [REGION ‘A’ ONLY] AND DVD. RUNNING TIME: 70 mins. REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic. 1918 during World War I: 17th century vampire Armand Tesla stalks London.
But Tesla's reign of terror is interrupted when a pair of scientists, Lady Jane (Frieda Inescort) and Sir John Ainsley (Roland Varno), drive a railroad spike through his heart. The "un-dead" Tesla remains safely entombed for two decades until the impact from a stray Nazi bomb accidently releases him.
Return of the Vampire, The Year: 1944: Director: Lew Landers: Stars: Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Miles Mander, Roland Varno, Matt Willis, Billy Bevan, Harold De Becker: Genre: Horror: Rating: 6 (from 1 vote) Review:
