Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) threatens to kill his old rival Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff) after determining that ...

Now considered a classic, “The Black Cat” (1934) was the first movie to feature Universal’s two prized assets, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and the studio’s excitement was palpable. It’s “the ...

Those with a yen for the off-center will want to sample William Wyler’s ‘Counsellor At Law’ (1933), a melodrama posing as a rat-a-tat-tat comedy, and Edgar G. Ulmer’s ‘The Black Cat’ (1934), a horror ...