MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Number Seventeen (1932)
Based on the stage play by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, this begins with Detective Barton (John Stuart) encountering an unhoused man, Ben (Leon M. Lion), as well as a dead body. As people continue to arrive at the house — one falls from the ceiling — the dead body disappears. In fact, it may still be […]
Doctor X (1932)
Based on the stage play The Terror by Howard W. Comstock and Allen C. Miller, Doctor X shouldn’t be disregarded by today’s horror fan just because it was made in 1932. It’s packed with murder, cannibalism, sex workers, strange relationships, frightening special effects and so much more. Because it was made in the two-color Technicolor process, […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Queen of Atlantis (1932)
After Jacques Feyder refused to make a sound version of his 1921 film L’Atlantide, G.W. Pabst stepped in to make three this, shot in English, French and German with three different casts yet always having Brigitte Helm (the robot from Metropolis) in the lead. Based on Pierre Benoit’s novel L’Atlantide, this movie has two French Foreign […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21: Island of Lost Souls (1932)
For all the infamous takes on The Island of Dr. Moreau, the third try — after the silent films Ile d’Epouvante and Die Insel der Verschollenen — got it right. Written by Waldemar Young (The Unholy Three, The Mystic) and Philip Wylie (whose Gladiator inspired Superman, The Savage Gentleman led to Doc Savage and When Worlds Collide was homaged by Flash Gordon), this […]
Sign of the Cross (1932)
The third of Cecille B. DeMille’s Biblical trilogy, following The Ten Commandments (1923) and The King of Kings (1927), this religious-themed movie actually upset Catholics so much that the Catholic Legion of Decency, an organization dedicated to identifying and combating objectionable content, was formed in 1934. I used to love checking out what movies they […]
Scarface (1932)
Paul Muni plays gangster Antonio “Tony” Camonte — based on Al Capone — as this film details his bloody rise from the bottom to the top of Chicago’s gangs. This film was directed by Howard Hawks and produced by Howard Hughes, who wanted another hit after 1931’s The Front Page. Hawks and Hughes were not on […]
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