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Director:
Lew Landers
Writers:
Edgar Allan Poe (poem)
David Boehm (screenplay)
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Release Date:
8 July 1935 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror more
Tagline:
While this mad surgical genius chanted "The Raven," horrible screams rose up from his torture chamber below!
Plot:
A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Lugosi), who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe... more | add synopsis
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(8 articles)
Hollywood Wax Museum & Hollywood Props Auction
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Frankula/Drackenstein more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Boris Karloff ... Edmond Bateman (as Karloff)

Bela Lugosi ... Dr. Richard Vollin
Lester Matthews ... Dr. Jerry Halden (Credits) / Dr. Jerry Holden
Irene Ware ... Jean Thatcher
Samuel S. Hinds ... Judge Thatcher
Spencer Charters ... Geoffrey (Credits) / Col. Bertram Grant
Inez Courtney ... Mary Burns
Ian Wolfe ... Col. Bertram Grant (Credits) / Geoffrey 'Pinky'
Maidel Turner ... Colonel's obese wife
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Anne Darling ... Autograph hound (scenes deleted)
June Gittelson ... Autograph hound (scenes deleted)
Joe Haworth ... Drug clerk (scenes deleted)
Mary Wallace ... Autograph hound (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
61 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Certification:
Australia:PG | USA:Approved (PCA #790)

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Bateman has turned away from Vollin when Vollin shoots him. But he clutches his chest and falls. more
Quotes:
Dr. Richard Vollin: Your monstrous ugliness breeds monstrous hatred. Good! I can use your hate. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Son of Svengoolie: The Raven (1935) (#1.20)" (1979) more

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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
Frankula/Drackenstein, 17 June 2005
5/10
Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

This movie is not actually based on Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem, but there is a Poe connection. Bela Lugosi plays Dr. Richard Vollin, who has a number of torture devices based on things from Poe's stories, including a pendulum. When hired to make an injured woman pretty again, Vollin agrees, but envisions her as his bride. Hoping to make this a reality, Vollin takes homely Bateman (Boris Karloff) and makes him very ugly so as to blackmail him into carrying out evil deeds.

"The Raven" is mostly pretty pedestrian. The horror mainly comes from Lugosi's demeanor and Karloff's looks (I guess that those were always what really made their movies intense, if at all succeeding there). But it's neat just to see Lugosi and Karloff in a movie together.

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