MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935)
Adapted from Norman Springer’s book Riot Squad, this is an early Lon Chaney Jr. role. Directed by Ray Kirkwood and Jack Nelson, this stars Chaney as John Arthur “Silk” Lennox, a nightclub owner who plays both sides as he’s very sure of himself. But he didn’t count on Jimmy Lambert (Dean Benton) and Nola Travers (Marie […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: A Scream In the Night (1935)
Jack Wilson (Lon Chaney Jr.) is a cop looking for a stolen ruby who decides to go undercover as Butch Curtain, a drunken bar owner. This marks the first time that Lon Chaney Jr. used his new stage name, reflecting a key moment in his career development. Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and written by […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
This is based on a true story, as The Red Barn Murder refers to an 1827 murder in Polstead, Suffolk, England. There, a young woman named Maria Marten was shot dead by her lover, William Corder, at the Red Barn, which was a local landmark. The two were going to elope, and afterward, Corder sent letters […]
MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The 39 Steps (1935)
Based on The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, this is the story of Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a normal man who somehow gets caught up in the evil deeds of spies who call themselves The 39 Steps. They’re stealing British military secrets, and when he tries to stop them, he’s accused of killing an agent. […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Black Room (1935)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Black Room was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, February 5, 1966 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, September 24, 1966 at 11:30 p.m., Saturday, November 4, 1967 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, March 28, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. Directed by Roy William Neill — who gets mystery, after all, he directed eleven of the […]
MILL CREEK THRILLERS FROM THE VAULT: The Black Room (1935)
Directed by Roy William Neill — who gets mystery, after all, he directed eleven of the fourteen Basil Rathbone-starring Sherlock Holmes films as well as early noir like Black Angel — and written by Arthur Strawn and Henry Myers, The Black Room has a prophecy at its center: at some point, the younger brother of the de Berghmann family […]
Scrooge (1935)
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MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: The Lost City (1935)
Kane Richmond went from being a football star at the University of Minnesota as Fred Bowditch to becoming a film salesman before testing and getting the lead in the boxing serial The Leather Pushers and becoming a fixture in serials like Spy Smasher and Brick Bradford as well as playing Lamont Cranston — otherwise known as […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 21: Murder by Television (1935)
You know how bad people wanted television in 1935? When an inventor comes up with a way of sending signals from anywhere, he’s murdered — for television more than by it — and we’re into this detective caper directed by Clifford Sanforth and written by Joseph O’Donnell who mainly worked on cowboy films. This movie […]
Mill Creek Sci-Fi Invasion: Life Returns (1935)
Eugene Frenke wrote and directed this film, and his Hollywood career is pretty strange. Born in Russia, he’d direct three more films (Girl in the Case, Two Who Dared and Miss Robin Crusoe), with eighteen years between his last two movies. He also produced Lady in the Iron Mask, The Barbarian and the Geisha and more films, as well as […]
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