Word: nosferatu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ORSON WELLES CINEMA, Cinema I: FRI-SAT: Nosferatu, 4, 7, 10. Beauty and the Beast, 5:15, 8:15, 11:15, Cinema II: TUES: Topkapi...
...Nosferatu. F.W. Murnau's 1921 film was the first screen version of Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, and one of the more intriguing works of German Expressionism. Special effects within a natural setting create a macabre atmosphere unmatched by the remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first...