Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a vitality that makes their efforts fully the equal of the original picture Writers William Hurlbut and John L. Balderston lift their monster (Boris Karloff) out of the water-filled cellar of the mill and send him out to terrify the countryside, break out of a dungeon, and make friends with a blind hermit who teaches him to smoke cigars and speak. Meanwhile one Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), as convincingly lunatic a scientist as ever reached the screen, shows Baron Henry Frankenstein, the monster's creator, the Tom-Thumb King, Queen, Archbishop and Satan he has cultured from...
...high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19, 1934). English Author John Clayton, new to the U. S. will not start a critic's gold rush, but Hollywood may well lift up its eyes to his auriferous hills...
...supreme effort will be made this year to lift the Agassiz Cup for the first time in the House's history, because it has been learned that Professor Merriman is especially anxious to have his boys develop into a winning crew...
...Maintenance Department spent the day looking for a worthy derrick to lift former Kaiser Wilhelm's statue back on the pedestal so that is can continue its silent exertions. Success, however, refused to rear its happy head...
...could be made into an interesting story in itself. A rich, intelligent Jew incurs the curse of Christ and is compelled to wander around the world until Christ returns to lift the curse. From the time of Calvary until the Spanish Inquisition the man roams from Asia Minor to Greece, Sicily, and at last Seville, having a life of licentiousness and selfish ease...