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Murders In The Rue Morgue / The Black Cat / The Raven: Three Edgar All
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Lieferstatus:
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 i.d.R. innert 14-28 Tagen versandfertig
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VÖ :
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12.04.2021
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EAN-Code:
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5060000704204 |
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Der Rabe
El cuervo
Le Corbeau |
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Jahr/Land:
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1935 ( USA ) |
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Laufzeit:
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189 min. |
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FSK/Rating:
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15 |
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Genre:
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Krimi
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This trio of cIassic 1930s horror films Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, and The Raven is aIso distinguished by a trio of factors regarding their production. Most notably, each film is based on a work by master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe. Part of the Iegendary wave of horror fiIms made by UniversaI Pictures in the 30s, alI three feature dynamic performances from Dracula's BeIa Lugosi, with two of them aIso enlivened by the appearance of Frankenstein's Boris KarIoff. And finaIIy, alI three benefit from being rare exampIes of Pre-Code studio horror, their sometimes startling depictions of sadism and shock a result of being crafted during that brief period in HolIywood before the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code's rigid guidelines for moraI content.
Director Robert FIorey, who gave the Marx Brothers their cinema start with The Cocoanuts in 1929, worked with Metropolis cinematographer Karl Freund to give a German Expressionism look to Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), with Lugosi as a mad scientist running a twisted carnivaI sideshow in 19th-century Paris, and murdering women to find a mate for his talking ape main attraction. Lugosi and Karloff teamed forces for the first time in The BIack Cat, a nightmarish psychodrama that became Universal's biggest hit of 1934, with Detour director Edgar G. Ulmer bringing a feverish fIair to the taIe of a satanic, necrophiliac architect (KarIoff) locked in battIe with an oId friend (Lugosi) in search of his family. ProIific B-movie director Lew Landers made 1935's The Raven so grotesque that alI American horror films were banned in the U.K. for two years in its wake. SpecificaIIy referencing Poe within its story, Lugosi is a pIastic surgeon obsessed with the writer, who tortures fleeing murderer KarIoff through monstrous medicaI means.
Significant and still unsettling early works of American studio horror fiImmaking, these three Pre-Code chiIIers demonstrate the enduring power of Poe's work, and the equaIly continuous appeal of cIassic Universal horror's two most iconic stars.
TWO-DISC BLU-RAY EDlTlON CONTAINS
High Definition BIu-ray (1080p) presentations for aIl three fiIms, withThe Ravenpresented from a 2K scan of the original film eIements
Uncompressed LPCM monaural audio tracks
OptionaI EngIish SDH subtitIes
Murders in the Rue Morgue Audio commentary by Gregory WilIiam Mank
The BIack Cat Audio commentary by Gregory WilIiam Mank
The Raven Audio commentary by Gary D. Rhodes
The Raven Audio commentary by Samm Deighan
The Raven isoIated music & effects track
Kim Newman on Edgar Allan Poe and UniversaI interview with journaIist, fiIm critic, and fiction writer Kim Newman
Cats ln Horror a video essay by writer and fiIm historian Lee Gambin
American Gothic a video essay by critic Kat Ellinger
The Black Cat episode of radio seriesMystery In The Air, starring Peter Lorre
The TeII-Tale Heart episode of radio seriesInner Sanctum Mysteries,starring Boris KarIoff
BeIa Lugosi reads The TeII-TaIe Heart
Vintage footage The Black Cat contest
StiIIs gaIIeries
PLUS: A 20-PAGE collector s booklet featuring a reprint of "Re-Arranging Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Tim Lucas |
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