The Raven

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.

Genre : Horror

Runtime : 61 mins

Release Date : 1935-07-08

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The Raven succeeded in 1935 where Roger Corman and Vincent Price failed 28 years later. The 1963 version of The Raven was written by Richard Matheson, who is quoted by Wikipedia as saying, "After hearing that they wanted to make a movie out of a poem, I felt it was a total joke, so comedy was the o...

Cast

Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff

(Edmond Bateman)

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

(Dr. Richard Vollin)

Lester Matthews

Lester Matthews

(Dr. Jerry Holden)

Irene Ware

Irene Ware

(Jean Thatcher)

Samuel S. Hinds

Samuel S. Hinds

(Judge Thatcher)

Spencer Charters

Spencer Charters

(Col. Bertram Grant)

Inez Courtney

Inez Courtney

(Mary Burns)

Ian Wolfe

Ian Wolfe

(Geoffrey 'Pinky' Burns)

Maidel Turner

Maidel Turner

(Mrs. Grant)

Raine Bennett

(Poe (uncredited))

Al Ferguson

Al Ferguson

(The Crook (uncredited))

Nina Golden

(Dancer (uncredited))

Jonathan Hale

Jonathan Hale

(Bedside Dr. at Jerry's Right (uncredited))

Arthur Hoyt

Arthur Hoyt

(Chapman - Buyer of Poe Memorabilia (uncredited))

Walter Miller

Walter Miller

(Bedside Dr. at Judge's Right (uncredited))

Bud Osborne

Bud Osborne

(Policeman (uncredited))

Madeline Talcott

(Bedside Nurse (uncredited))

Cyril Thornton

(Dr. Vollin's Butler (uncredited))

Anne Darling

Anne Darling

(Autograph Hound)

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