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This four-movie region contains one almost forgotten Karloff classic, two quite watchable B-thrillers and a comedic misfire renowned only for the performances of Karloff and Peter Lorre.
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THE Dark ROOM (1935) – One of Boris’s best. He plays twin aristocrats who grow up under a prophecy that says the younger will demolish the older in order to fulfill a family curse. The curse apparently began in the “dismal room,” hence the title. Karloff is at his best, playing the brutal older brother, Gregor, as well as his cosmopolitan younger twin, Anton. There are some nice twists and turns during the course of the film, and the pacing helps to maintain our interest.
THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG (1939) – During his tenure at Columbia, Boris starred in a number of B-programmers playing a indignant scientist. Here he plays Dr. Savaard, a med scientist obsessed with bringing the dreary encourage to life, specifically by using a mechanical heart he has invented. Needing a beneficial subject, he experiments on a medical student who is assisting him. This upsets the assistant’s girlfriend, who tips off the police. Savaard is arrested for execute, tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang, vowing revenge on the mediate, jury and prosecutor. His body is released to his right-hand man, who restores Savaard to life. Suddenly, it’s noticed that six members of his jury have committed suicide by hanging and that the remaining jurors, along with the consider, prosecutor, police inspector and the girlfriend who blew the whistle have all been invited to Savaard’s house.
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BEFORE I HANG (1940) — A posthaste paced B-movie using the weak chestnut that blood has memory and that the tissues and bones of the criminally insane throb with a life that makes them who they are. Boris plays Dr. John Garth, a scientist who is seeking the cure for the ravages of extinct age. Being a exasperated scientist, of course, he performs a “mercy killing” on one of his subjects, which land him the death sentence. He is given a chance to redeem himself through medical research in prison, where he and a colleague (Edward Van Sloan) inoculate Garth with an experimental serum. Unfortunately, the serum was developed from an executed killer, and, while it works, it turns Garth into a homicidal maniac. He kills Van Sloan and a prison trustee while tricking the authorities into granting him a pardon for his medical efforts. Once he gets out, he really goes to town..
THE BOOGIE MAN WILL Regain YOU (1942) – This psychotronic take-off on Arsenic and Conventional Lace finds Karloff, as nutty professor Nathaniel Billings, working on creating a speed of supermen in the basement of his Unique England house along with his equally batty assistant, played by Peter Lorre. He sells the house to a naïve woman and her ex-boyfriend to urge as a hotel. Karloff and Lorre then hit upon the concept of using the guests for their experiments.
No sooner had I finished writing a review of THE BORIS KARLOFF COLLECTION saying that someone should release THE Gloomy ROOM on DVD when lo and glimpse here it is. The fact that it’s being issued by Sony means that it will spend the best prints available which is mountainous considering how often Boris is badly served by despicable prints of his non-Universal films. Sony has already issued a couple of the Columbia Karloff “Furious Doctor” films on DVD (THE DEVIL COMMANDS, THE MAN WITH NINE LIVES) and while they were devoid of any right extras, the visual quality of the films was an improvement over the traditional VHS copies. This will complete the site and give us THE Unlit ROOM in the bargain which is the finest of the films he did for Columbia. Directed by Roy William Neill (known for the fresh day Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce) THE Dusky ROOM gives Boris one of his best acting opportunities in a double role as twin brothers one noble the other substandard (a triple role when you assume he also plays one brother impersonating the other) .
The other films are THE MAN THEY COULD NOT HANG, BEFORE I HANG, and a comedy THE BOOGIE MEN WILL Gather YOU. Although I haven’t viewed the site yet I choose that Sony will do the same for these titles as they did for the others with hopefully a few extras thrown in although it’s a shame that they didn’t include the previous two on a third DVD to have all the films in one package. So Karloff fans rejoice even more so than for THE BORIS KARLOFF COLLECTION as overall the quality of these films are better. Thanks to these, THE VAL LEWTON COLLECTION, and the British films THE GHOUL and THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND, virtually all of Karloff’s 30s and 40s films are now on DVD. That unprejudiced leaves THE WALKING Slow which Warners should have issued in their upcoming HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS OF Terror COLLECTION…. ADDENDUM: I have now seen the region and the recount quality is top-notch. Unfortunately there are no extras whatsoever not even chapters for the various films.
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