{"id":31318,"date":"2022-12-25T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31318"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:36:02","slug":"the-raven-1935-starring-boris-karloff-bela-lugosi-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31318","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Raven&#8221; (1935) starring Boris Karloff &#038; Bela Lugosi \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z122522zview_theraven.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"763\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Raven <\/strong><\/em>(1935)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Lew Landers\u00a0<\/strong>aka <strong>Louis Friedlander<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>David Boehm\u00a0<\/strong>based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware, Samuel S. Hinds,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Spencer Charters<\/strong> and <strong>Ian Wolfe<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>While this mad surgical genius chanted &#8220;The Raven,&#8221; horrible screams rose up from his torture chamber below!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Richard Vollin (Lugosi), who is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe, is called out of retirement to perform a life-saving operation on Jean Thatcher (Ware).\u00a0 The operation is a success.\u00a0 Jean and Dr. Vollin become friends.\u00a0 As the friendship grows, Vollin becomes obsessed with Jean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When escaped killer Edmond Bateman (Karloff) shows up at Dr. Vollin&#8217;s mansion asking for a facelift, Vollin comes up with a sick plan.\u00a0 He performs the operation, but turns Bateman into a hideous looking monster.\u00a0 Vollin says he will fix Bateman&#8217;s face if Bateman will help him kill Jean&#8217;s fiance and father.\u00a0 Vollin plans to murder them using methods based on Edgar Allan Poe stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Bela Lugosi had the leading role in<em> The Raven<\/em>, Boris Karloff got top billing.\u00a0 In addition Karloff earned $10,000 to Lugosi&#8217;s $5,000.\u00a0 Lugosi was reportedly unhappy to learn this news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The idea of disfiguring an escaped murderer to make him do your bidding is an interesting take.\u00a0 Credit to the writers to wrap that idea around an obsession with Edgar Allan Poe.\u00a0 \u00a0I wish the end result was as good as the ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Raven <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z122522zview_theraven2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raven (1935) Director:\u00a0 Lew Landers\u00a0aka Louis Friedlander Screenplay: David Boehm\u00a0based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe Stars: Boris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,17,53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31319,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31318\/revisions\/31319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}