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Boris Karloff Mary Shelley
1,298 wordsMary Shelley's Frankenstein: Myth for Modern Man How can we think of Frankenstein and ignore the film classic of 1931 who can forget the remarkable appearance of Boris Karloff as the unnamed monster? Yet the celebrated film does not follow the novel by Mary Shelley. Although the scene of a futuristic laboratory entrances movie audiences with the mad Dr. Frankenstein and his faithful assistant Igor, the scene is derived from twentieth century imaginations and interests, not the novel itself. In t...
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Marlon Brando Rita Hayworth
3,086 wordsColumbia Pictures originated with a man whose coarseness and bullying earned him such unloving nicknames as 34; Harry The Horror, 34; 34; White Fang, 34; and 34; His Crudeness 34; : Harry Cohn. The New York-born son of Jewish immigrants, Cohn worked throughout the teens at numerous jobs, in and out of the entertainment industry. By 1918 he was an assistant to Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal, who also employed Harry 39; s older brother Jack. The Cohn's left Universal in ...
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Avant Garde Boris Karloff
3,386 wordsCertain films which today are regarded as classics of American cinema John Ford 39; s The Searchers (1956), Orson Welles 39; Citizen Kane (1941), the Judy Garland musical The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Frank Capra 39; s It 39; s A Wonderful Life (1946), Walt Disney 39; s Fantasia (1940) are, or at least used to be, cult films. Box-office disappointments when they were released, these films were kept alive over the decades not by reviewers or studios or theaters, but by film goers who loved t...
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Boris Karloff Monster
1,299 wordsMary Shelleys Frankenstein: Myth for Modern Man How can we think of Frankenstein and ignore the film classic of 1931? who can forget the remarkable appearance of Boris Karloff as the unnamed monster? Yet the celebrated film does not follow the novel by Mary Shelley. Although the scene of a futuristic laboratory entrances movie audiences with the mad Dr. Frankenstein and his faithful assistant Igor, the scene is derived from twentieth century imaginations and interests, not the novel itself. In t...
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Boris Karloff Horror Films
3,055 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four low-budget studios. They produced mostly Grade- 34; B 34; films: genre efforts made quickly and cheaply for targeted audiences usually young ones, whether it was the fare aimed at juvenile cowboy enthusiasts, provided by Monogram, PRC (Producers Releasing Company), and Republic during the 1930 s and 39; 40 s, or the older teen crowds sold on AIP 39; s (American Interna...
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