"In 1930 John L. Balderston was hoping to repeat his huge success with the American version of Dracula. Before production started on the 1931 Universal film version he wrote a play of "Frankenstein" with screenwriter Garrett Fort. Although it was never produced it is still an important document in American Theater history. It is here, in this play, that we discover how the name Frankenstein was attributed to the monster instead of his ma ..."
""It's alive! Alive!" shouts Colin Clive's triumphant Dr. Frankenstein as electricity buzzes over the hulking body of a revived corpse. "In the name of God now I know what it's like to be God!" For years unheard, this line has been restored, along with the legendary scene of the childlike monster tossing a little girl into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, one of the most famous and influential horror movies ever made. Coming off th ..."
""Es lebt! Es lebt!", ruft ein von Colin Clives gespielter triumphierender Frankenstein, als die Elektrizität über den ungefügen Körper eines wiederbelebten Leichnams schnurrt. "Im Namen Gottes, jetzt weiß ich, wie es ist, Gott zu sein!" Dieser Satz, den jahrelang niemand hörte, ist jetzt, zusammen mit der Szene, in der das kindliche Monster ein kleines Mädchen in den See wirft, in James Whales Frankenstein, einem der einflussreichsten u ..."
"When Universal Pictures picked up the movie rights to a Broadway adaptation of Dracula, they felt secure in handing the property over to the sinister team of actor Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning. But Chaney died of cancer, and Universal hired the Hungarian who had scored a success in the stage play: Béla Lugosi. The resulting film launched both Lugosi's baroque career and the horror-movie cycle of the 1930s. It gets off to an atmo ..."
"The Original Universal Studios Classic Monster Collection includes 8 films featuring the most iconic monsters in motion picture history. Starring some of the most legendary actors including Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains and Elsa Lanchester in the roles that they made famous, these films set the standard for a new horror genre with revolutionary makeup, mood-altering cinematography and groundbreaking special ef ..."
"Las lecturas, los largos paseos admirando la belleza del paisaje italiano, las
etapas en diferentes lugares, primero el ... la costa los cadáveres de los
aventureros embarcados en el Ariel, casi irreconocibles tras días en el mar;
Shelley aún ..."
"In 1989, horror-movie historian David J. Skal discovered the legendary Spanish-language version of the 1931 Dracula in Cuba. Shot at night on the same Universal sets as Tod Browning's classic after, his crew went home for the evening, and using a translated version of the same script, this version features a cast of Mexican and South American actors under the direction of George Melford. When this version was released in 1992 in the U.S ..."
"For the first time ever the original Dracula film comes to DVD in this extraordinary Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original classic starring the renowned Bela Lugosi and three timeless sequels featuring such legendary actors as Lon Chaney Jr. John Carradine and others. These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures to this day.BONUS MATER ..."
"Garrett Elsden Fort was born in New York City in 1900. He made his
screenwriting debut came in 1917, with the silent film, One of the Finest. His first '
talkie' was Rouben Mamoulian's innovative 1929 production of Applause – a film
which the ..."
"The vampire has always had audience appeal. What is amazing is that Hollywood shunned the King of Vampires for years fearing the story was too gruesome of any movie audience's palette. When Universal finally decided to make a screen production of the classic novel and successful Broadway play, they were not originally going to pursue Bela Lugosi for the part even though he had stunned audiences with his performance in the Broadway role ..."
"For the first time ever, the original Frankenstein film comes to DVD in this extraordinary Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original classic, starring the renowned Boris Karloff, and four timeless sequels, featuring such legendary actors as Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr. These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures to this day."
"Dracula's Daughter This cut-rate sequel to Dracula, sans Bela Lugosi, turns out to be an unexpectedly sleek and stylish movie. Gloria Holden, tall, dark, and continental, is the aristocratic title character fighting her nature and seeking a cure for her affliction. A sympathetic psychiatrist, Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger), encourages her to "face her fears," but when she lures a pretty young streetwalker to her room to model for a painting, t ..."
"Dracula Although there have been many screen versions of Bram Stoker's classic tale, none is more enduring than the 1931 original. Starring Bela Lugosi as the screen's most popular vampire Count Dracula, this version has now been remastered to feature a specially-composed musical score by world-renowned composer Philip Glass and performed by Kronos Quartet. Glass' music lends greater depth to an already timeless classic. Frankenstein B ..."
"Tay Garnett was a hard-nosed, job-of-all-work director who moved from studio to studio and genre to genre throughout the golden age of Hollywood. He never achieved the status, let alone the distinctive signature, of a Howard Hawks or Raoul Walsh; still, with talent, brashness, and cojones to spare, he was responsible for a slew of cheerfully vulgar entertainments, and several genuinely fine films. Bataan may well be the best. Certainly ..."
"Als sich Universal Pictures die Filmrechte an der Broadway-Adaption von Dracula sicherte, gab man das Projekt zuversichtlich in die Hände von Schauspieler Lon Chaney und Regisseur Tod Browning. Chaney starb jedoch kurz darauf an Krebs und Universal engagierte stattdessen einen ungarischen Schauspieler, der bereits mit dem Bühnenstück Erfolge feiern konnte: Bela Lugosi. Das Resultat markierte den Beginn von Lugosis sonderbarer Karriere u ..."