Black Cat [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi David Manners Julie Bishop Egon Brecher
	Video by:	Universal Studios
	Sales Rank:	80960

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Actor(s):
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
David Manners
Julie Bishop
Egon Brecher

Creators:
John J. Mescall (Cinematographer)
Edgar G. Ulmer (Writer)
Carl Laemmle Jr. (Producer)
E.M. Asher (Producer)
Edgar Allan Poe (Writer)
Peter Ruric (Writer)
Tom Kilpatrick (Writer)

Director(s):
Edgar G. Ulmer

Recording label: Universal Studios
EAN: 9786302526196
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6302526191
Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC,
Release Date: 1997-09-16
Universal product code (UPC): 096898081436
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: NR (Not Rated)

Product Description
Product Details Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Egon Brecher Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer Writers: Edgar G. Ulmer, Edgar Allan Poe, Peter Ruric, Tom Kilpatrick Producers: Carl Laemmle Jr., E.M. Asher Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, NTSC Rated: NR (Not Rated) Number of tapes: 1 Studio: Universal Studios VHS Release Date: September 16, 1997 Run Time: 65 minutes

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Edgar Ulmer's baroque masterpiece is the pinnacle of expressionism of Hollywood, a beautiful melding of gothic antiquity and modernity in the shadow of World War I. Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff square off in their finest film together as decades-old nemeses who meet for a fateful showdown on the very battlefield where Karloff's devilish dark priest sacrificed his own army and framed Lugosi's good doctor for the crime. Karloff plays the most evil character of his career, a mesmerizingly demonic architect (inspired by the notorious real-life Satanist Aleister Crowley) who stole Lugosi's wife and daughter and built his shrinelike home, a stunning piece of Bauhaus-inspired glass and steel architecture, on the graves of his victims. His intensity and hypnotic understatement is a revelation, a genuine monster in human guise far more insidious and evil than the creatures of Universal's more famous horror classics. Lugosi delivers his finest performance ever as a Van Helsing-like hero whose simmering hatred and rage finally boils over into madness and sadistic revenge. A pair of silly American honeymooners become but two more pawns in their game of vengeance. John Mescall, who shot the gorgeous Bride of Frankenstein, beautifully delivers eerie unease and sinister imagery, from the Caligari-like black church of slanting beams and slashing shadows to the tomb of glass-lined caskets displaying victims held in suspended animation. One of the finest horror films to emerge from Universal's golden age of horror. --Sean Axmaker

Running time: 65 minutes