{"id":37369,"date":"2024-10-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37369"},"modified":"2024-10-26T20:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T00:51:39","slug":"the-corpse-vanishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37369","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Corpse Vanishes&#8221; (1942) starring Bela Lugosi \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z102824zview_corpsevanishes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"763\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><i><b>The Corpse Vanishes <\/b><\/i><\/em>(1942)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Wallace Fox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Harvey Gates; <\/strong>story by <strong>Sam Robins, Gerald Schnitzer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bela Lugosi, Luana Walters, Tristram Coffin, Vince Barnett<\/strong> and <strong>Angelo Rossitto<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> KIDNAPPED BRIDES Are The Victims Of His Terror! Prepare to shudder when you see the strange practices of this doctor who sacrificed beautiful women for the sake of a mad love!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Someone is killing young brides on their wedding day.\u00a0 No one can figure out why they are dying. Or who is stealing their corpses.\u00a0 Then Patricia Hunter (Walters), a young reporter, notices the brides are all wearing orchid corsages. She decides to investigate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The clues lead Patricia to Dr. Lorenz (Lugosi).\u00a0 Lorenz lives in a remote mansion with his younger wife.\u00a0 Dr. Lorenz seems nice enough, but the wife is a bit cold.\u00a0 When a terrible storm hits and washes out the bridge to town, Patricia is forced to spend the night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What Patricia doesn&#8217;t know is&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;Dr. Lorenz has been behind the murders of the brides.\u00a0 Lorenz takes their glandular fluids for injection into his wife.\u00a0 These fluids make his elderly wife appear young for a brief time.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0&#8230;in the Doctor&#8217;s cellar laboratory a crazy old hag and her two sons live.\u00a0 One of the sons is a cruel dwarf.\u00a0 The other is a feebleminded hulk.\u00a0 The three assist Dr. Lorenz with the murders.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;also in the cellar is a room with the bodies of the dead brides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Patricia doesn&#8217;t know these things&#8230; but she is about to find out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beware of poor copies.\u00a0 The movie is in the public domain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Angelo Rossitto plays the dwarf son.\u00a0 Mr. Rossitto is best known for his roles in Tod Browning&#8217;s <em>Freaks<\/em> and <em>Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome<\/em>.\u00a0 His career spanned 60 years and over 100 resume credits.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Corpse Vanishes<\/em> is a low-budget, quickly shot B picture and it plays like one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong><i><b>The Corpse Vanishes <\/b><\/i>(1942)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 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\/2024\/z102824zview_corpsevanishes2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corpse Vanishes (1942) Director: Wallace Fox Screenplay: Harvey Gates; story by Sam Robins, Gerald Schnitzer Stars: Bela Lugosi, Luana<\/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":[17,51,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37369","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=37369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37386,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37369\/revisions\/37386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}