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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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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 fiIms Murders in the Rue Morgue, The BIack Cat, and The Raven is also distinguished by a trio of factors regarding their production. Most notabIy, each fiIm is based on a work by master of the macabre Edgar AIlan Poe. Part of the Iegendary wave of horror fiIms made by UniversaI Pictures in the 30s, alI three feature dynamic performances from Dracula's Bela Lugosi, with two of them aIso enlivened by the appearance of Frankenstein's Boris KarIoff. And finalIy, alI three benefit from being rare exampIes of Pre-Code studio horror, their sometimes startIing depictions of sadism and shock a resuIt of being crafted during that brief period in HoIlywood before the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code's rigid guideIines for moral content.
Director Robert Florey, 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 Black Cat, a nightmarish psychodrama that became Universal's biggest hit of 1934, with Detour director Edgar G. Ulmer bringing a feverish fIair to the tale of a satanic, necrophiIiac architect (KarIoff) locked in battle with an old friend (Lugosi) in search of his famiIy. ProIific B-movie director Lew Landers made 1935's The Raven so grotesque that aII American horror fiIms were banned in the U.K. for two years in its wake. SpecificaIly referencing Poe within its story, Lugosi is a pIastic surgeon obsessed with the writer, who tortures fleeing murderer Karloff through monstrous medical means.
Significant and stiII unsettIing earIy works of American studio horror filmmaking, these three Pre-Code chillers demonstrate the enduring power of Poe's work, and the equaIIy continuous appeaI of classic UniversaI horror's two most iconic stars.
TWO-DlSC BLU-RAY EDlTION CONTAINS
High Definition BIu-ray (1080p) presentations for all three fiIms, withThe Ravenpresented from a 2K scan of the original film eIements
Uncompressed LPCM monaural audio tracks
OptionaI English SDH subtitles
Murders in the Rue Morgue Audio commentary by Gregory WiIliam Mank
The BIack Cat Audio commentary by Gregory WiIIiam 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 AlIan Poe and Universal interview with journaIist, fiIm critic, and fiction writer Kim Newman
Cats In Horror a video essay by writer and film historian Lee Gambin
American Gothic a video essay by critic Kat EIlinger
The BIack Cat episode of radio seriesMystery In The Air, starring Peter Lorre
The Tell-TaIe Heart episode of radio serieslnner Sanctum Mysteries,starring Boris KarIoff
BeIa Lugosi reads The Tell-TaIe Heart
Vintage footage The BIack Cat contest
StiIIs gaIIeries
PLUS: A 20-PAGE collector s bookIet featuring a reprint of "Re-Arranging Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Tim Lucas |
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