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I did a search and there has been some discussion on TOWER OF LONDON, but in threads mainly designated for "The Boris Karloff Collection" on DVD. Since it's been a couple of years now, I thought maybe it would be worth starting a thread just on this film alone. I watched it again last night. I enjoy seeing Karloff, Rathbone, and Price all together (and I can never get enough of that cutey Nan Grey) but this film always languishes at the "fair" point to me rather than being exceptionally "good". There are always fine moments to pick out (my favorite is the drinking sequence between Rathbone and Price, who delightfully chews up the scenery as the Duke of Clarence) and Karloff is a terrific villain as Mord the Executioner. But I feel the movie is overlong, and no matter how many times I see it, the plot seems rather muddled and confusing at times. So what are your thoughts?
Rose Hobart told me she worked on the movie for weeks and when she saw it years later, she was hardly in it, so she felt that some of the scenes she was in had to have been cut. Donnie Dunagan described a scene he was in, that was cut. I smell another SON OF FRANK, a movie that went into production with a half-finished and/or half-assed script, and people trying to "work around that" in production, and problems arising. Maybe somebody'll come up with a script someday.
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Joe Karlosi wrote: The use of the SON OF FRANK music in the first Karloff scene where we see Mord sharpening the ax and then moving throughout the torture chamber is the type of moment that makes me love Universal.
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telegonus wrote: In seven short years Karloff went from Morgan in The Old Dark House to Mord in Tower Of London. Different films, fa' sher, good examples of how much Universal had changed under different management.
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telegonus wrote: No point or argument on my part, Atenolol, just an attempt at levity. Failed.
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