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Karloff's name was also attached to And the Darkness Falls (Cleveland and NY: World Publishing Co, 1946); and The Boris Karloff Horror Anthology (London: Souvenir Press, 1965; simultaneous publication in Canada - Toronto: The Ryerson Press; US pbk reprint NY: Avon Books, 1965 retitled as Boris Karloff's Favourite Horror Stories; UK pbk reprints ...
The Comedy of Terrors is a 1963 [1] American International Pictures horror comedy film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Joe E. Brown (in a cameo performance that also serves as his final film appearance).
Mae Clarke (born Violet Mary Klotz; August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992) was an American actress.She is widely remembered for playing Henry Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, who is chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for being on the receiving end of James Cagney's halved grapefruit in The Public Enemy. [3]
Sinister Serials of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, Jr. by Leonard J. Kohl (2000) ISBN 1887664319 (paperback) Vampire over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain by Frank J. Dello Stritto and Andi Brooks (2000) ISBN 0970426909 (hardcover) Lugosi: The Man Behind the Cape by Robert Cremer (1976) ISBN 0809281376 (hardcover)
Strange as Frankenstein in House of Dracula (1945) Strange (left) and Boris Karloff in the 1944 horror film, House of Frankenstein. In 1944, while Strange was being made up for an action film at Universal, make-up artist Jack Pierce noticed that Strange's facial features and 6'4" [6] height would be appropriate for the role of Frankenstein's ...
Karloff starred in a few highly acclaimed Val Lewton-produced horror films in the 1940s, and by the mid-1950s, he was a familiar presence on both television and radio, hosting his own TV series including Starring Boris Karloff, Colonel March of Scotland Yard, Thriller, Out of This World (British TV series) and The Veil, and guest starring on ...
The film stars Boris Karloff and Viveca Lindfors. It was filmed in the Spring of 1967, [ 3 ] but only released theatrically in 1970 in Spain, a year after Karloff's death. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was later theatrically released in the US by Cannon Films in August, 1971.
Writing for The Spectator in 1935, Graham Greene described the film as "absurd and exciting", and "wildly artificial."Greene praised both the acting of Karloff and the direction of Neill, noting that Karloff had been given a long speaking part and "allowed to act at last", and that Neill had "caught the genuine Gothic note" in a manner that displayed more historical sense than any of Alexander ...