When Karloff left to head up a road company of “Arsenic and Old Lace,’’ he was replaced on Broadway by Erich von Stroheim. Karloff’s rival Bela Lugosi played the part for five weeks ...

Peter Lorre could simultaneously creep you out and inspire sympathy. Boris Karloff remained a movie star when he was pushing 80 and could barely walk. Island of Doomed Men $17.95 (DVD), Sony ...

Several Karloff films, including The Black Cat and The Haunted Strangler, are streaming on the Criterion Channel this month. ... There, in the old professor’s bizarre lab, ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Starring Boris Karloff has the following description: Decades before the works of Edgar Allan Poe ...

Boris Karloff first played the Universal Frankensteins monster when he was 44 years old. He had already been in several stage productions and movies and caught the attention of the director, James ...

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Karloff was luckier than his old co-star, and worked consistently until his death in 1969. He showed up often in films by Roger Corman, the indie genre film producer who launched the careers of ...

Bride of Frankenstein (1935): The follow-up that brought back Karloff's monster and introduced his mate (Elsa Lanchester, with one of the most infamous coifs of all time) was arguably the best ...

These tykes are acting the daffiest of all murder plays, Arsenic and Old Lace, at a special Broadway matinee. They are students at Manhattan's Professional Children s School, which does not train ...

The Old Dark House The [original J.B.] Priestley novel must have been a bit more plausible than as evidenced in the cinematic transition. But regardless, it has all the elements for horror and ...