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The Raven( 1935)

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The uncanny master of make-up in a new amazing shocker

Overview

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Boris Karloff

      Edmond Bateman

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      Bela Lugosi

      Dr. Richard Vollin

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      Lester Matthews

      Dr. Jerry Holden

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      Irene Ware

      Jean Thatcher

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      Samuel S. Hinds

      Judge Thatcher

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      Spencer Charters

      Col. Bertram Grant

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      Inez Courtney

      Mary Burns

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      Ian Wolfe

      Geoffrey 'Pinky' Burns

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      Maidel Turner

      Mrs. Grant

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      Raine Bennett

      Poe (uncredited)

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      Al Ferguson

      The Crook (uncredited)

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      Nina Golden

      Dancer (uncredited)

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      Jonathan Hale

      Bedside Dr. at Jerry's Right (uncredited)

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      Arthur Hoyt

      Chapman - Buyer of Poe Memorabilia (uncredited)

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      Walter Miller

      Bedside Dr. at Judge's Right (uncredited)

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      Bud Osborne

      Policeman (uncredited)

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      Madeline Talcott

      Bedside Nurse (uncredited)

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      Cyril Thornton

      Dr. Vollin's Butler (uncredited)

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      Anne Darling

      Autograph Hound

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    Written by tmdb28039023 on Sat Sep 03 2022
    The Raven succeeded in 1935 where Roger Corman and Vincent Price failed 28 years later. The 1963 version of The Raven was written by Richard Matheson, who is quoted by Wikipedia as saying, "After hearing that they wanted to make a movie out of a poem, I felt it was a total joke, so comedy was the only way to do it." Matheson's mistake was precisely that he approached the material lightly, though; it's because Raven '35 takes itself deathly seriously — director Lew Landerss and screenwriter David Boehm are more popish than the Pope (or, in this case, more Poe-pish than Poe) — that the film tr...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    115000.00

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

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    • obsessed with a woman