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...murderer's retribution, takes place in a sleek modernistic house built by a demented Austrian (Boris Karloff) on the remains of a World War fortress. A bus accident one stormy night sends into this evil abode a U. S. detective story writer, his bride, and a jittery psychiatrist (Bela Lugosi) who suspects that years ago Karloff stole his wife and daughter. Lugosi's suspicions are confirmed when Karloff shows him his waxy-looking spouse among a collection of prettily embalmed women in the cellar. In an attempt to kill Karloff, lugubrious Lugosi is scared off by the appearance...
...Bela Lugosi was born in Lugos, Hungary, 46 years ago, son of a banker. At 20 he made his debut in Budapest as Romeo, was for ten years a matinee idol. Because of political troubles he left Hungary in 1921, went to Manhattan where he produced, directed and acted in his native tongue. His first English part, in The Red Poppy in 1925, he learned by rote without knowing what the words meant...
...attempt to create a super bloodcurdling picture both Dracula's Bela Lugosi and Frankenstein's Boris Karloff have been thrown together that two monsters are better than one does not work out in this instance. Displaying a remarkable lack of originality in terrorizing devices and effects, the picture is hardly one to make children scream and women faint. Even more important, the plot is so complicated and incoherent that all sense of sustained terrifying suspense is virtually lost. Two such master-monsters as Lugosi and Karloff deserve a better vehicle than "The Black Cat" when they meet to match wits...
...Author King's capable, dinner-coated stock character Lieut. Valcour. Inspector Ellery & staff turn the theatre upside down, invade the musicians' room, wardrobe room, property room, and even, amid terrified squeals, the backstage quarters of the naked ladies of the ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes...
...Hopes (by Romney Brent; Bela Blau. producer). From Romney Brent, a mad little player, could well be expected a mad little play. Pomposity is a Brent specialty, and the name of his heroine, an extremely fey matron, keys the whole comedy-Clytemnestra Hope...