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I have enjoyed the well-priced Universal Legacy Collections featuring their classic monster films of the 30s and 40s and have been waiting and hoping for them to release the balance of their classic dread titles. This DVD collection is the one I have been wishing for. Now I will finally have two of my well-liked alarm films of the 1930s, “The Murky Cat” and “The Raven,” on DVD.
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As great as I am satisfied by this area I fetch it an entertaining and somewhat dusky myth of Lugosi’s early film career. The disc features an early 30s film following his success in “Dracula” where he is the main star (”Murders in the Rue Morgue” 1932), two films which team him in a role of equal stature with his rival, Boris Karloff (”The Dismal Cat” and “The Raven,” 1934 and 35 respectively), a film which exploited the marquee value of his name but gave him a more minor role (”The Invisible Ray” 1937), and, finally, a film which saw him whisk into a rather demeaning supporting role (”Murky Friday” 1940) beside his frail equal, Karloff.
Within eight years Lugosi had gone from full-fledged leading man to supporting actor. It must have compounded matters for Lugosi to have Karloff continue to receive leading roles while he was reduced to slight supporting roles in Karloff’s films. The duo would work again in 1945 in RKO’s “The Body Snatchers” where Lugosi, again, played a minor role opposite Karloff’s mighty meatier portrayal. Lugosi’s career was on a right downward poke by this point (with few exceptions like “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein”) and would continue to decline through the next decade until his death in the mid-1950s.
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The best portion of this collection are the earliest films (pre-1937) which characterize Universal’s golden age of awe. This era saw the recent “Dracula” (1931), “Frankenstein” (1931), “The Invisible Man” (1933), and Universal’s masterpiece “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935) . In the early 30s Universal was a studio committed to making quality panic films. In fact, these fear films saved Universal from obvious bankruptcy in the shadowy days of the Huge Depression (Abbott and Costello and Deanna Durbin would do the same for the studio ten years later) . With the help of Carl Leammle, Jr. they produced A films with suitable scripts, gracious directors (Tod Browning, James Whale, etc.), fretful sets and photography, astonishing makeup by Jack Pierce, and fabulous casts.
As mentioned earlier, “The Unlit Cat” and “The Raven” are the two films I will appreciate most on this region and they alone are well worth the $20 dollar mark note. Both films occupy their titles from the works of Edgar Allen Poe but, unlike “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” that is where the connection ends. “The Gloomy Cat” is a pre-code anecdote of revenge and Satanism plot in a spectacular art deco mansion built on the location of a bloody World War I battlefield. Lugosi and Karloff are bitter enemies who meet for one final battle of wits. “The Raven” sees Lugosi as a demented, Poe loving, plastic surgeon who disfigures Karloff and blackmails him into aiding him in a residence to punish a woman who has scorned him. Both films are perfect vehicles for their two stars and record the well-mounted, quality dismay product Universal became renowned for.
These picture the Universal films outside the “Dracula” and “Frankenstein” franchises that starred Bela Lugosi–or more accurately, Karloff and Lugosi in all but one. Once Karloff entered the Universal scene a few months after “Dracula” (1931) and created such a hit with the Frankenstein monster–eclipsing Lugosi’s Dracula, the studio wasn’t enthusiastic to feature Lugosi as their fright star any longer: very ungrateful of them. So it leaves a “Lugosi Collection” from Universal largely as pairings with Karloff. “Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1932) is exclusively a Lugosi vehicle. In “The Dusky Cat” (1934), the two are matched. Lugosi dominates in “The Raven” (1935), while “The Invisible Ray” (1936) is more a Karloff vehicle. “Unlit Friday’ (1940), by far the weakest film, shouldn’t be here at all, as Lugosi only has a cramped role.
Since others have already spoken at length about the films, and since most people buying this two-sided disc know what they’re getting, I want to address the DVD mastering problems experienced. Many have notorious that, regardless of player, films on the disc pixelate and freeze at random points. This is a plight with Universal’s DVD-18 mastering process, which has flaws that have since caused Universal to return to their earlier, more satisfactory DVD-9 process.
In the meantime, both this disc and the 2-DVD “The Hammer Dread Series” have more than their section of unpleasant discs. Contacting Universal itself will wait on no purpose: even though they are aware of the jam, the pressings are out there and are not being remastered. You unbiased have to be persistent and preserve exchanging bad copies at retailers–even if you have to derive a refund and open again with another dealer; the films are worth it. Eventually, you *will* acquire one without glitches. It took me three copies from two places for both this and “The Hammer Anxiety Series.” Importantly, you don’t have to play through all the films in accurate time to know if you have a flawed copy: unprejudiced scan through the films in the player at 4x-10x hurry (no faster), and if there is a glitch, the player will freeze at the region. That plan, you don’t have to examine through eight 90-minute movies on every copy you try out; it will rob only 10% of the time to check the plot, and you don’t even have to be in the room. If you reach wait on and the image is frozen, rather than having finished the film being scanned and having returned to the menu, then you have a dreadful one.
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