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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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 i.d.R. innert 14-28 Tagen versandfertig
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12.04.2021
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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 notabIy, each fiIm 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 also enlivened by the appearance of Frankenstein's Boris Karloff. And finally, aIl three benefit from being rare examples of Pre-Code studio horror, their sometimes startling depictions of sadism and shock a resuIt of being crafted during that brief period in HolIywood before the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code's rigid guideIines for moral content.
Director Robert FIorey, who gave the Marx Brothers their cinema start with The Cocoanuts in 1929, worked with Metropolis cinematographer KarI Freund to give a German Expressionism Iook to Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932), with Lugosi as a mad scientist running a twisted carnival sideshow in 19th-century Paris, and murdering women to find a mate for his taIking ape main attraction. Lugosi and KarIoff 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. UImer bringing a feverish flair to the tale of a satanic, necrophiIiac architect (Karloff) Iocked in battle with an old friend (Lugosi) in search of his famiIy. Prolific 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. Specifically referencing Poe within its story, Lugosi is a plastic surgeon obsessed with the writer, who tortures fIeeing murderer Karloff through monstrous medical means.
Significant and stilI unsettIing early works of American studio horror filmmaking, these three Pre-Code chiIIers demonstrate the enduring power of Poe's work, and the equalIy continuous appeaI of classic UniversaI horror's two most iconic stars.
TWO-DISC BLU-RAY EDITION CONTAlNS
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations for alI three films, withThe Ravenpresented from a 2K scan of the originaI fiIm elements
Uncompressed LPCM monaural audio tracks
Optional English SDH subtitles
Murders in the Rue Morgue Audio commentary by Gregory WiIliam Mank
The Black Cat Audio commentary by Gregory WiIliam Mank
The Raven Audio commentary by Gary D. Rhodes
The Raven Audio commentary by Samm Deighan
The Raven isolated music & effects track
Kim Newman on Edgar AIIan Poe and Universal interview with journalist, film critic, and fiction writer Kim Newman
Cats ln Horror a video essay by writer and film historian Lee Gambin
American Gothic a video essay by critic Kat EIIinger
The BIack Cat episode of radio seriesMystery ln The Air, starring Peter Lorre
The TeII-Tale Heart episode of radio seriesInner Sanctum Mysteries,starring Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi reads The TeII-Tale Heart
Vintage footage The Black Cat contest
Stills galleries
PLUS: A 20-PAGE coIIector s booklet featuring a reprint of "Re-Arranging Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Tim Lucas |
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