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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Bela Lugosi | ... | Dr. George Lorenz | |
| Luana Walters | ... | Patricia Hunter | |
| Tristram Coffin | ... | Dr. Foster (as Tris Coffin) | |
| Elizabeth Russell | ... | Countess Lorenz | |
| Minerva Urecal | ... | Fagah | |
| Angelo Rossitto | ... | Toby (as Angelo) | |
| Joan Barclay | ... | Alice Wentworth | |
| Kenneth Harlan | ... | Editor Keenan | |
| Gwen Kenyon | ... | Peggy Woods | |
| Vince Barnett | ... | Sandy | |
| Frank Moran | ... | Angel | |
| George Eldredge | ... | Mike (as George Eldridge) | |
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Dr. Lorenz, a mad scientist, wants to keep his elderly wife young. He does this by kidnapping young females and extracting fluid from them. He then injects this fluid into his wife. Written by Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
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8 May 1942 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Dr. Lorenz: Why, yes, in a manner of speaking. I find a coffin much more comfortable than a bed.
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At the beginning during the wedding scene, there is a woman with her right hand over her mouth behind the doctor as he says, "No....the undertaker. She's dead". As the shot changes to a wide angle, the woman has her left hand over her mouth. See more »Quotes
Patricia Hunter: Oh, professor, do you also make a habit of collecting coffins?Dr. Lorenz: Why, yes, in a manner of speaking. I find a coffin much more comfortable than a bed.
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I had watched THE CORPSE VANISHES (1942) a couple of years ago but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised as to how watchable and engaging it was the second time around. Who'd have thought that such fare was worth a second look? If anything, I found CORPSE to be even livelier than GHOST (which did get to be repetitious and feel constrained by its one setting): although it is never explained why Lugosi is married to an 80-year old woman (except maybe to get into high society given that she's a "Countess") or why she needs to be youthful (it's not like she's parading her "look" anywhere except at the Lorenz household), the film offers an amusing throwback to those 30s hard-boiled reporter movies and predates such rejuvenation-themed horror movies as I VAMPIRI (1956).
I found the film to be quite atmospheric and enjoyable: it was nice to watch Lugosi surrounded by such familiar faces as Elizabeth Russell (from several Val Lewton films), Angelo Rossitto (one of Tod Browning's FREAKS [1932]) and Vince Barnett (who had a memorable supporting role in Hawks' SCARFACE [1932]) among others. That said, the campier elements of the film were sometimes too silly for words: Lugosi whipping his moronic assistant, the proverbial funereal organ-playing, the even more hilarious sight of Lugosi and Russell sleeping in coffins and the final shoot-out with the police in which, of all people, it's Lugosi's dwarfish henchman who gets it!
In the end, I guess I wouldn't mind watching Lugosi's other stuff from this period but I doubt if it will make me enough of a fan to go out and purchase them in their best available prints on DVD.