Isle of the Dead: Directed by Mark Robson. With Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery. A Greek general in the 1912 Balkans finds his Wife's grave robbed and fights a plague.
Directed by Mark Robson,Isle of the Deadis thematically rich, even for a Lewton project; set in Greece at the end of the Balkan wars, a plague joins forces with the supernatural to wreak havoc on a band of war-weary soldiers. A few of these men, along with a small company of expatri...
Aubyn really dead? and the ultimate fear of being buried alive.Karloff gives another outstanding performance as General Pherides, who tries to be the protector of the small group. Of the rest of the cast, Helene Thimig as the superstitious Madame Kyra and Katherine Emery as Mrs. St. Aubyn,...
Isle of the Dead: Directed by Mark Robson. With Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery. A Greek general in the 1912 Balkans finds his Wife's grave robbed and fights a plague.
The 1945 Val Lewton ISLE OF THE DEAD is, regrettably, aptly titled: the film itself is a dead, awkward thing and largely devoid of the style that made such Lewton films as CAT PEOPLE, I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, and THE BODY SNATCHER so memorable. ...