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Isle Of The Dead [1945]
Price: £1.40
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Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 0044005647433
Label : 4 Front Video
Manufacturer : 4 Front Video
Publisher : 4 Front Video
Release date : 1998-06-08
Title : Isle Of The Dead [1945]
Actor : Mark Robson|Boris Karloff|Jason Robards|Ellen Drew
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : PAL
Number of items : 1
Running time : 69
Studio : 4 Front Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1945-09-01
Number of discs : 1
RRP: £5.99
Average customer rating:
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 0044005647433
Label : 4 Front Video
Manufacturer : 4 Front Video
Publisher : 4 Front Video
Release date : 1998-06-08
Title : Isle Of The Dead [1945]
Actor : Mark Robson|Boris Karloff|Jason Robards|Ellen Drew
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : PAL
Number of items : 1
Running time : 69
Studio : 4 Front Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1945-09-01
Number of discs : 1
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review by: Chicken Hat Theater Improv date: 2003-08-30 rating:Karloff has to contend with the plague...and maybe a vampire
The chief attraction of this film is that it is Boris Karloff who ends up on the "Isle of the Dead" in this 1945 film directed by Mark Robson. The tale is set during the Balkan War of 1912, as General Nikolas Pherides (Karloff) visits a tiny Greek island to visit the grave of his wife, accompanied by Oliver Davis (Marc Cramer), an American reporter. After finding the coffin looted, they spend the night at the house of Albrecht (Jason Robards, Sr.), an antique collector. Then they discover the island is infested with plague and people start dying off. Kyra (Helene Thimig), an old crone, says this is all the fault of beautiful young Thea (Ellen Drew), claiming the girl is a vampire. This film is suitable atmospheric although it does get a bit slow at times and the sudden switch to a vampire supposedly being responsible for the deaths instead of the plague seems a bit much to me. However, the conclusion involves a woman (Katherine Embry) being buried alive in a cataleptic trance, which creates some nice moments. Certainly "Isle of the Dead" has better production values than most horror movies made at this time but it is a step shy of being a first-rate chiller.
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