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mormovies wrote: Karloff's entrance is so memorable! He strolls (or limps) through the dungeon and makes subtle adjustments to all the torture devices to ramp up the pain a notch or two on the already suffering victims! If the movie could have sustained that tone and that type of imagery it coulda been a contender!
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Monsterpal wrote: The Price version has quite a bit of stock footage, some of it from the '39 version.
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CreepingBride wrote:Lee seems to think that all he needs to keep all the balls in the air is to use Richard's dollhouse as exposition, which is silly: does such a brilliantly sinister master manipulator like Richard need a dollhouse to keep track of his machinations? No, of course not, it's for the audience's sake, and it fails. I'm surprised he didn't try that B-movie narrative crutch of a newspaper front-page montage.
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Greetings,
Could the common denominator here be Rowland V. Lee?
It seems as if his signature for both 1939 Universals is the pastiche nature of the films.
Both Son of Frankenstein and Tower of London have splendid, almost James Whale-inspired casts. The two movies also feature that "just in time" writing that suggests an on the fly composition.
Maybe Mr. Lee's style leaves us with that sense that the company had a great kernel of narrative, but could just not decide how they wanted the story to develop or end.
Best regards,
Andy in Vancouver.
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