1940s Horror Classics (Volume 2) ( The Picture of Dorian Gray / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Dead of Night / Son of Dracula / Bedlam )

1940s Horror Classics (Volume 2) (DVD) (*)

$23.99

Original Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray / The Body Snatcher / Isle of the Dead / Dead of Night / Son of Dracula / Bedlam
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
512 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1943-1946 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Albert Lewin
Robert Wise
Mark Robson
Alberto Cavalcanti
Charles Crichton
Basil Dearden
Robert Hamer
Robert Siodmak

Written By:
Albert Lewin
Oscar Wilde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Philip MacDonald
Val Lewton
Ardel Wray
Josef Mischel

John Baines
Angus MacPhail
T.E.B. Clarke
H.G. Wells
E.F. Benson
Eric Taylor
Curt Siodmak
William Hogarth
Mark Robson

Actors:
George Sanders ..... Lord Henry Wotton
Hurd Hatfield ..... Dorian Gray
Donna Reed ..... Gladys Hallward
Angela Lansbury ..... Sibyl Vane
Peter Lawford ..... David Stone
Lowell Gilmore ..... Basil Hallward
Richard Fraser ..... James Vane
Douglas Walton ..... Allen Campbell
Morton Lowry ..... Adrian Singleton
Miles Mander ..... Sir Robert Bentley
Lydia Bilbrook ..... Mrs. Vane
Mary Forbes ..... Lady Agatha
Robert Greig ..... Sir Thomas
Moyna MacGill ..... Duchess
Billy Bevan ..... Malvolio Jones - Chairman
Boris Karloff ..... Cabman John Gray
Bela Lugosi ..... Joseph
Henry Daniell ..... Dr. Wolfe 'Toddy' MacFarlane
Edith Atwater ..... Meg Cameron
Russell Wade ..... Donald Fettes
Rita Corday ..... Mrs. Marsh
Sharyn Moffett ..... Georgina Marsh
Donna Lee ..... Street Singer
Ted Billings ..... Townsman
Bobby Burns ..... Mourner
Robert Clarke ..... Richardson - Medical Student
Aina Constant ..... Maidservant
Mary Gordon ..... Mrs. Mary McBride
Carl Kent ..... Gilchrist - Medical Student
Milton Kibbee ..... Dan
Boris Karloff ..... Gen. Nikolas Pherides
Ellen Drew ..... Thea
Marc Cramer ..... Oliver Davis
Katherine Emery ..... Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn
Helene Thimig ..... Madame Kyra
Alan Napier ..... St. Aubyn
Jason Robards Sr. ..... Albrecht
Ernst Deutsch ..... Dr. Drossos
Sherry Hall ..... Col. Kobestes
Erick Hanson ..... Officer
Rose Hobart ..... Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn (in long shot)
Skelton Knaggs ..... Andrew Robbins
Mervyn Johns ..... Walter Craig
Roland Culver ..... Eliot Foley
Mary Merrall ..... Mrs. Foley
Googie Withers ..... Joan Cortland
Frederick Valk ..... Dr. Van Straaten
Anthony Baird ..... Hugh Grainger
Sally Ann Howes ..... Sally O'Hara
Robert Wyndham ..... Dr. Albury
Judy Kelly ..... Joyce Grainger
Miles Malleson ..... Hearse Driver
Michael Allan ..... Jimmy Watson
Barbara Leake ..... Mrs. O'Hara
Ralph Michael ..... Peter Cortland
Esme Percy ..... Antique Dealer
Basil Radford ..... George Parratt
Robert Paige ..... Frank Stanley
Louise Allbritton ..... Katherine Caldwell
Evelyn Ankers ..... Claire Caldwell
Frank Craven ..... Doctor Harry Brewster
J. Edward Bromberg ..... Professor Lazlo
Samuel S. Hinds ..... Judge Simmons
Adeline De Walt Reynolds ..... Madame Zimba
Pat Moriarity ..... Sheriff Dawes
Etta McDaniel ..... Sarah
George Irving ..... Colonel Caldwell
Lon Chaney Jr. ..... Count Dracula
Charles Bates ..... Tommy Land
Joan Blair ..... Mrs. Land
Jess Lee Brooks ..... Stephen, the Valet
Jimmy the Crow ..... Madame Zimba's Crow
Boris Karloff ..... Master George Sims
Anna Lee ..... Nell Bowen
Billy House ..... Lord Mortimer
Richard Fraser ..... The Stonemason
Glen Vernon ..... The Gilded Boy
Ian Wolfe ..... Sidney Long
Jason Robards Sr. ..... Oliver Todd
Leyland Hodgson ..... That Devil Wilkes
Joan Newton ..... Dorothea the Dove
Elizabeth Russell ..... Mistress Sims
Polly Bailey ..... Scrub Woman
John Beck ..... Solomon
Ted Billings ..... Inmate
Hamilton Camp ..... Pompey (uncredited
Robert Clarke ..... Dan the Dog

Synopsis:

The Picture of Dorian Gray: In 1886, in Victorian London, the corrupt Lord Henry Wotton (George Sanders) meets the pure Dorian Gray (Hurd Hatfield) posing for talented painter Basil Hallward (Lowell Gilmore). Basil paints Dorian's portrait and gives the beautiful painting and an Egyptian sculpture of a cat to him, while Henry corrupts his mind and soul, telling him that Dorian should seek pleasure in life. Dorian wishes that his portrait could age instead of him. Dorian goes to a side show in the Two Turtles in the poor neighborhood of London, and he falls in love with singer Sibyl Vane (Dame Angela Lansbury). Dorian decides to marry her and tells Lord Henry, who convinces him to test the honor of Sibyl. Dorian Gray leaves Sibyl and travels abroad, and when he returns to London, Lord Henry tells him that Sibyl committed suicide for love. Throughout the years, Dorian's friends age while he is still the same, but his picture discloses his evilness and corruptive life. Can he still have salvation, or is his soul trapped in the doomed painting? The Body Snatcher: In Edinburgh in 1831, Dr. Wolfe MacFarlane runs a medical school where Donald Fettes is a student. Fettes is interested in helping a young girl who has lost the use of her legs. He is certain that MacFarlane's surgical skills could be put to great use but he is reluctant to do so. The good Dr. MacFarlane has a secret that soon becomes all too obvious to young Fettes, who has only recently been promoted as his assistant: he has been paying a local cabbie, John Gray, to supply him with dead bodies for anatomical research. Gray constantly harasses MacFarlane and clearly has a hold over him dating to a famous trial many years before where Gray refused to identify the man for whom he was robbing graves. Fettes isn't aware of any of this but soon realizes exactly how Gray obtains the bodies they use in their anatomy classes. Isle of the Dead: On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka. Dead of Night: Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns), seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales. Son of Dracula: 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. Bedlam: Nell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Though she tries to reform Bedlam, but the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there, though ultimate, it's the lunatics who've taken over the asylum.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 17 April, 2022.