(1940)
Directed by Boris Ingster
Starring John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Elisha Cook Jr., Peter Lorre, Charles Waldron, Charles Halton, Ethel Griffies
This film proves once again that no matter how long you’ve been a film fan, there are always more titles to discover that you might not have known about. Now thanks to Warner Archives, I have to the chance to see a film starring (well, sort of) one of my favorite actors from the classic eras, Peter Lorre.
Now even though Lorre is top billed, he is barely in a supporting role. While he is the title character, he only appears in a few scenes, but they were obviously using his name to hype of the film, especially since the rest of the cast didn’t have any of the star status needed to promote it. But while it’s not one of the best of that era, there is still more here to be appreciated.
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Coming to Blu-ray for the first time in the U.S., Warner Archives has announced a new 2-disc special edition of Hammer’s The Curse of Frankenstein, the movie that really put the Studio that Dripped Blood on the map. This new release will contain 75 minutes of new documentary work, audio commentary by Screenwriter/Film Historian Steve Haberman and Filmmaker/Film Historian Constantine Nasr. You’ll get to hear from some of Hammer’s best scholars, such as Richard Klemensen discussing the history of the film, cinematographer and producer David J. Miller discussing Hammer’s underrated cameraman Jack Asher, as well as hearing from Christopher Frayling, Christopher Drake, and so much more.
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