Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh costar in this grandly-mounted barbarian fantasy, shot in Technicolor on location in Norway, Germany, and France.
Category: Hollywood Classic
‘Son of Frankenstein’ – Karloff’s final stand on Peacock
Basil Rathbone plays the young scientist who continues his father’s experiments and Bela Lugosi is Ygor in Karloff’s final appearance as The Monster.
‘Werewolf of London’ – the original movie wolfman on Peacock
Before Lon Chaney Jr. made history as the Wolfman, Henry Hull became a werewolf in this 1935 film from Universal Pictures in horror movie heyday.
Karloff and Lugosi in ‘The Black Cat’ on Criterion Channel
Edgar G. Ulmer’s baroque masterpiece is dark and brilliant and the pinnacle of expressionism in Hollywood horror cinema.
Claude Rains is the original ‘The Invisible Man’ on Peacock and Criterion Channel
James Whale directs the first adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel, bringing a mix of humor, horror, and madness to the story.
Universal Horrors: the birth of American horror cinema and the original cinematic shared universe
Decades before the Marvel Comics movie universe was born, Frankenstein and Dracula and the Wolf Man crossed paths, teamed up, and battled one another.
Are we not men? – ‘Island of Lost Souls’ on Criterion Channel
“Are we not men?” Charles Laughton stars in the first screen version of the H.G. Wells novel and (for all the changes from the novel) still the defining one.
The original ‘The Nutty Professor’ – Dr. Jekyll and Jerry Lewis on Amazon Prime and Paramount+
This bizarro take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reimagines the good doctor as a nerdy college chemistry professor with a lounge lizard alter ego.
Jean Harlow is a ‘Bombshell’ on Criterion Channel
Lee Tracy costars as a manipulative press agent in this snappy screwball satire of Hollywood fame and publicity. Victor Fleming directs.
‘Cluny Brown’ on Criterion Channel
Ernst Lubitsch brings “the Lubitsch touch” to this light but witty romantic comedy starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones.