61% (2) Son of Dracula 80 min, Approved, [Fantasy, Horror] [Robert Siodmak] [05 Nov 1943]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 60%, External Reviews
Actors: Evelyn Ankers, Frank Craven, Lon Chaney Jr., Louise Allbritton, Robert Paige
Writer: Eric Taylor (screenplay), Curt Siodmak (original story)
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Plot: Count Alucard finds his way from Budapest to the swamps of the Deep South after meeting Katherine Caldwell, of the moneyed Caldwell clan that runs a plantation called Dark Oaks. She's obsessed with occult matters. Who better to guide her through this supernatural world than Count Alucard, whose name no one bothers to spell backwards? No one, that is, except the wily Dr. Brewster, an old family friend. He'll join Professor Lazlo, a specialist in the occult, in fighting this "Alucard" and the woman he's influenced. Or has Katherine influenced him? Meanwhile, Katherine's fiancé, Frank Stanley, will find his courage and his sanity sorely tested when he accidentally shoots Katherine to death, yet finds that she goes on living.
Rotten Tomatoes: Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother Curt. The story is set in the American south, where the mysterious Count Alucard (Lon Chaney Jr.) has recently taken up residence. Katherine Caldwell (Louise Allbritton), a student of the occult, is fascinated by Alucard, so much so that she agrees to become his wife. But when Katherine begins to look and act strangely, her former suitor Frank Stanley (Robert Paige) suspects that something's amiss. Assisted by town doctor Brewster (Frank Craven) and psychologist Laszlo (J. Edward Bromberg), Frank comes to the inescapable conclusion that Count Alucard is actually the dreaded vampire Count Dracula's offspring (this much he might have figured out simply by spelling the man's name backward!) To prevent Dracula from spreading his influence throughout America, Frank and his confreres race against time to destroy the count and, hopefully, rescue poor Katherine.
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74% (1) The Pearl of Death 69 min, Approved, [Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller] [Roy William Neill] [01 Aug 1944]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, External Reviews
Actors: Basil Rathbone, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers, Nigel Bruce
Writer: Bertram Millhauser (screenplay), Arthur Conan Doyle (story "The Six Napoleons")
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Plot: When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes' show-boating, he is naturally obliged to find it. Soon, he learns of a series of brutal murders that seemed to have been commited by a malevolent man mountain known only as the Creeper. Now, Holmes must deal with the seemingly overwhelming menace of this man and his boss in order to retrieve the pearl.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, Sherlock Holmes matches wits with master criminal Giles Conover, who plans to steal the valuable Borgia Pearl right under the noses of Scotland Yard. Assisting Conover is a lovely but dangerous young woman who assumes a series of disguises to throw Holmes off the track.
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73% (1) Pardon My Rhythm 62 min, [Musical, Romance] [Felix E. Feist] [01 May 1944]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 73%, External Reviews
Actors: Evelyn Ankers, Gloria Jean, Marjorie Weaver, Patric Knowles
Writer: Hurd Barrett (story), Val Burton, Eugene Conrad
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Plot: N/A
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68% (1) Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror 65 min, Approved, [Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller] [John Rawlins] [18 Sep 1942]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: Basil Rathbone, Evelyn Ankers, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny
Writer: Lynn Riggs (screenplay), John Bright (screenplay), Arthur Conan Doyle (story "His Last Bow"), Robert Hardy Andrews (adaptation)
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Plot: When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations, via their radio 'Voice of Terror', the Intellegence Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help in the crisis. Holmes and his companion, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are visited the first night of their investigation; a man falls dying from a knife wound on their doorstep. His last word leads Holmes into the slums where he encounters Kitty (Evelyn Ankers), the sweetheart of the slain man.
Rotten Tomatoes: Holmes and Watson must unmask a traitor in the Cabinet Office of the British government in this WW II-set mystery thriller incorporating the famous detective into wartime events.
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66% (1) Weird Woman 63 min, PASSED, [Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery] [Reginald Le Borg] [01 Mar 1944]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, External Reviews
Actors: Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers, Lon Chaney Jr., Ralph Morgan
Writer: Fritz Leiber Jr. (novel), Scott Darling (adaptation), Brenda Weisberg (screenplay)
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Plot: While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, a college professor returns from a tropical vacation with a bride who was raised by natives. Unfortunately, his jealous ex-girl friend begins spreading rumors that the girl is a voodoo priestess. To ensure that the bride is ruined, the conniving villainess commits a series of murders.
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58% (1) The Mad Ghoul 65 min, Not Rated, [Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller] [James P. Hogan] [12 Nov 1943]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, External Reviews
Actors: David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, George Zucco, Robert Armstrong
Writer: Brenda Weisberg (screenplay), Paul Gangelin (screenplay), Hanns Kräly (original story)
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Plot: Dr. Alfred Morris, a university chemistry professor, rediscovers an ancient Mayan formula for a gas which turns men into pliant, obedient, zombie-like ghouls. After medical student Ted Allison becomes a guinea pig for Morris, the professor imagines that Allison's fiancée, beautiful concert singer Isabel Lewis, wants to break off the engagement because she prefers the professor as a more "mature" lover but n reality loves Eric, her accompanist. In order to bring Ted back from his trance-like states, Morris commands him to perform a cardiectomy on recently deceased or living bodies in order to use serum from their hearts as a temporary antidote. When the serial murders seem to coincide with Isabel's touring schedule, ace reporter "Scoop" McClure gets on the mad scientist's trail.
Rotten Tomatoes: The Mad Ghoul is the story of a crazed professor (George Zucco) who finds an ancient Mayan gas while fiddling in his laboratory. The vapor, which instantly zombifies its victims, causes a panic at the college when it is administered to the professor's assistant (David Bruce).
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58% (1) The Great Impersonation 70 min, [Thriller] [John Rawlins] [18 Dec 1942]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 58%, External Reviews
Actors: Aubrey Mather, Edward Norris, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy
Writer: Scott Darling, E. Phillips Oppenheim (novel)
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Plot: An unconscious man is found in a boat which drifts to the landing of an isolated African outpost where Baron von Ragenstein, an enemy agent, recognizes the man as his exact double, Sir Edward Dominey, with whom von Ragenstein went to school. He plots to kill Dominey and pose as the dead man.He learns about Dominey's broken marriage to Muriel and his relation to Sir Ronald, head of home defense. Back at the Dominey estate,Muriel is delighted with the change in Dominey, and Sir Ronald gives the spy a confidential position.The situation is complicated by Bardinet, Muriel's admirer who, like von Regenstein, is under orders from Seamon, chief of the enemy agents. Another difficulty is Baroness Stephanie, a spy who loves von Regenstein. The jealous Bardinet tells Muriel that Dominey is an impostor and she tells Sir Ronald. At Police headquarters Dominey reveals that, in Africa, it was actually von Regenstein that was killed and that he, Dominey posing as von Regenstein, has been playing the dual role in order to uncover the enemy leaders.
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