Showing posts with label (1932). Show all posts
Showing posts with label (1932). Show all posts

Friday, 17 June 2016

(1932) The Monster Walks

An heiress' (Vera Reynolds) sweetheart (Rex Lease) rescues her from an ape, an uncle and a madman (Mischa Auer) with a whip.

(1932) Maniac

A vaudevillian (Bill Woods) poses as a mad doctor (Horace B. Carpenter), injects a patient and eats a black cat's eye.

Friday, 13 May 2016

(1932) Thirteen Women,

Female alumnae of the St. Albans Seminary sorority group receive letters from Swami Yogodachi, making alarming predictions of death and murder - which come true. When Helen Frye (Kay Johnson) receives her prediction, she contacts sorority leader Laura Stanhope (Irene Dunne), who invites the remaining members to come to her home. On the journey there, Helen meets Ursula Georgi (Myrna Loy), a half-Indian, unaware that Ursula's fury over her treatment in college is behind the swami's predictions.

Thursday, 12 May 2016

(1932) White Zombie

Murder Legendre (Bela Lugosi) is the menacingly named zombie master of Haiti. So it's to him that Charles Beaumont (Robert Frazer) goes when he needs help for a twisted plan. Spurned in marriage by Madeline Short (Madge Bellamy), Beaumont has decided on a simple solution: kill Short and bring her back as a zombie. Then she can be his forever. The only problem comes when Legendre keeps the fetching girl for himself -- and her new husband (John Harron) comes to Madeline's rescue.