Boris Karloff
Hjalmar Poelzig
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The Black Cat is a 1934 American pre-Code horror film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. It was Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year, and was the first of eight films (six of which were produced by Universal) to feature both Karloff and Lugosi.
A classic horror film based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, featuring Boris Karloff as a Satan-worshipping priest and Bela Lugosi as his rival. The film follows the fate of a couple trapped in the priest's castle after a car accident in Hungary.
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- Crime, Horror, Romance
- Edgar G. Ulmer
- 1934-05-07
Watch the 1934 horror classic starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi as feuding occultists and a doomed couple. The movie is loosely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same name.
When their hotel-bound bus crashes in a mountain storm and Joan is injured, the travellers seek refuge in the home, built fortress-like upon the site of a bloody battlefield, of famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig. There, cat-phobic Verdegast learns his wife's fate, grieves for his lost daughter, and must play a game of chess for Allison's life.
- 66 min
A horror film starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff as two former enemies who meet in a haunted house in Hungary. The film features a black cat, a chess game, and a macabre twist involving a mummified corpse.
Based around a story by Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat sees a young couple, Peter & Joan Allison (David Manners & Julie Bishop), who while on their honeymoon in Budapest meet the mysterious scientist Dr. Vitus Verdegast (Lugosi).
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After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark...
