The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Country: US
Technical: bw 69m
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Nina Foch, Frieda Inescort
Synopsis:
A bomb unearths the Count's coffin during the London Blitz, and a workman ill-advisedly removes the stake from his body.
Review:
Columbia shrewdly borrowed the character (and the actor) from Universal (as MGM had with Mark of the Vampire), which they could do by changing the Count's name. The resulting piece of opportunist horror, like the Holmes films, gained in topicality what it lost in freshness, also stealing from Universal the idea of mixing in a werewolf character at the same time.
Country: US
Technical: bw 69m
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Nina Foch, Frieda Inescort
Synopsis:
A bomb unearths the Count's coffin during the London Blitz, and a workman ill-advisedly removes the stake from his body.
Review:
Columbia shrewdly borrowed the character (and the actor) from Universal (as MGM had with Mark of the Vampire), which they could do by changing the Count's name. The resulting piece of opportunist horror, like the Holmes films, gained in topicality what it lost in freshness, also stealing from Universal the idea of mixing in a werewolf character at the same time.
Country: US
Technical: bw 69m
Director: Lew Landers
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Nina Foch, Frieda Inescort
Synopsis:
A bomb unearths the Count's coffin during the London Blitz, and a workman ill-advisedly removes the stake from his body.
Review:
Columbia shrewdly borrowed the character (and the actor) from Universal (as MGM had with Mark of the Vampire), which they could do by changing the Count's name. The resulting piece of opportunist horror, like the Holmes films, gained in topicality what it lost in freshness, also stealing from Universal the idea of mixing in a werewolf character at the same time.