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THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR, DVD -
Bela Lugosi & Todd Browning!

Bela Lugosi stars in the rare US mystery-horror film THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR. 1929. Black & White.

In a telephone call to the Police, Edward Wales (John Davidson: The Devil Bat) makes the surprising pronouncement that he is able to identify the woman who recently killed his friend businessman Spencer Lee. Commissioner Grimshaw (Clarence Geldart: The Unholy Night) seems none too impressed with Wales’s assertion, but he agrees to dispatch Inspector Delzante (Bela Lugosi) to interview him nevertheless.

In Calcutta, the family of Sir Roscoe (Holmes Herbert: Mark of the Vampire, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Lady Alice Crosby (Mary Forbes: The Picture of Dorian Gray) is gearing up for a big party, and their son, Richard (Conrad Nagel: London After Midnight), is out in the garden with his girlfriend, Nellie O’Neil (Leila Hyams: Freaks, Island of Lost Souls). Richard wants Nellie to marry him, but she is strangely reluctant...

The party's unorthodox entertainment, professional medium Madame Rosalie LaGrange (Margaret Wycherly), is to perform a séance. Madame LaGrange requests guests to form a circle of chairs in the parlor, and to each take a seat in this circle; Edward Wales is the last to be seated— in the unlucky thirteenth chair... When the lights are out somebody stabs Wales in the back killing him. However, all the doors and windows in the room were locked. One thing is absolutely certain. The killer can only be one of the remaining twelve participants in the séance...

This locked-room mystery with a supernatural tinge - a talkie released during the brief transitional period between the silent and sound eras of film - is directed with style by Tod Browning and features an especially dynamic performance from a pre-stardom Bela Lugosi as Police Inspector Delzante.

The Thirteenth Chair acts as a pre-cursor for Dracula. Though nominally a mystery, The Thirteenth Chair has enough séances and apparently supernatural goings-on to give a modern audience the feeling that Browning and company were testing the waters, looking to determine if the American movie-going public was ready for an out-and-out horror film on the German model. Browning handles the horrific elements of the story in an a typically understated way, as though he isn’t quite sure to what extent they’ll be approved by his bosses at the studio — and considering the reaction those very same bosses would have when Browning gave them Freaks three years later, that sort of caution was probably justified.

Lugosi also seems to be trying to figure out how much he can get away with, but his performance is more self-assured than his director’s — indeed, Lugosi’s none too far from full Dracula mode here, despite the fact that he’s actually playing one of the good guys. He has that same creepy awkwardness about him that he would display in the role that would soon make him a gigantic star, the same flamboyance that somehow seems more natural in a horror movie than in any other setting. His screen presence here, which - while undeniably theatrical - is nonetheless commanding and powerful.
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GIFT OF GAB, DVD - SUPER RARE
BELA LUGOSI AND BORIS KARLOFF

Lost UNIVERSAL Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi film. GIFT OF GAB. 1934. Black & White.

Another rare classic to add to your DVD collection of Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney, etc.

Universal added a tremendous array of stars (many of them now-forgotten personalitites) to the cast of this film, originally titled Let ‘Em Rave and Smooth Gab. Much of the talent appears during radio broadcasts of Colonel Withers’ Chicken Livers programme. Among the names are the Three Stooges, though not the famed trio but a competeing group as the famous Stooges had just signed with Columbia Pictures for Woman Haters, so three look-a-like actors replaced them.

Gift of Gab is a comedy about a man who can sell anyone anything... he has the “gift of gab.” The plot involves a smooth-talking radio announcer hired to revive interest in a failing radio show. Therein follows a procession of one-reelers showcasing radio talent, put together to make a full-length feature.

Lugosi appears as an Apache wearing a checkered hat, with Karloff portraying the “Phantom”. Both are in the same sequence, a murder mystery skit for a radio broadcast.

Universal shot the film during July, with Lugosi concurrently shooting the serial Return of Chandu. Hungarian Paul Lukas, a friend of Lugosi’s, also appeared in the cast playing the corpse alongside another acquaintance - the black cat who was the title player in 1934’s The Black Cat.

Gift of Gab was widely regarded as a “lost” film, collectors and experts resigned never to be able to view the missing Karloff and Lugosi performance. However in the late 1990s a worn, heavily duplicated, but complete print was unearthed, and this single surviving print is the only way to see this otherwise impossible to find movie.
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IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, DVD -
RARE 50'S SCI-FI

It Conquered the World is a 1956 science fiction film about an alien from Venus trying to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist. It was directed by Roger Corman, written by Lou Rusoff (with uncredited contributions by Charles B. Griffith), and starred Peter Graves, Lee van Cleef, Beverly Garland, and Sally Fraser.

Dr. Tom Anderson (Van Cleef), an embittered scientist, has picked up the voice of a Venusian alien in his radio transmitter. The alien wants to take over the world with its mind-control devices and thus make a new home for itself, but claims only to be bringing peace to the Earth through the elimination of emotions. Anderson agrees to help the creature in this ploy, even recommending that the creature assimilate his friend Dr. Nelson (Graves) and his wife (Fraser). The alien's first action is to suppress all electric power on Earth, including the ignition systems of motor vehicles, leaving Dr. Nelson resorting to riding around on a bicycle.

After killing a flying bat-like creature which carries the mind-control device, Nelson returns home to see his wife is assimilated and, as she attempts to assimilate him with another bat creature, he kills her. By this point, the only people left that are not mind controlled are Nelson, Anderson, Anderson's wife, and a small group of soldiers camping in the woods. Dr. Nelson finally persuades the paranoid Anderson that he has been wrong about the alien's motives and that he has made a horrible mistake, allying himself with a creature bent on world domination. They hurriedly leave when they discover Tom's wife has picked up a rifle and gone to the alien's cave to try to kill it. The monster succeeds in taking the life of Mrs. Anderson before the two doctors make it to her rescue. Finally seeing his hubris and the loss of everything he holds dear, Dr. Anderson kills the monster, sustaining lethal wounds of his own in the confrontation.
Directed by Roger Corman
Produced by Roger Corman
Written by Lou Rusoff
Charles B. Griffith (uncredited)
Starring Peter Graves
Lee van Cleef
Beverly Garland
Sally Fraser
Music by Ronald Stein
Cinematography Fred E. West
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