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Maniacal Mayhem

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Number of Discs
2

Release Date
17/10/2022

Studio
Eureka Classics

format
Blu-ray / Normal

Duration
230

Certificate UK
PG

Description

Three more tales of terror from the vaults of Universal Pictures, all starring the iconic Boris Karloff. Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi both star In The Invisible Ray (dir. Lambert Hillyer, 1936), which sees Dr Janos Rukh (Karloff) exposed to a mysterious element that turns him into a deadly luminescent maniac who devises a plot to bump off his personal and professional rivals. Then, in Black Friday (dir. Arthur Lubin, 1940), Karloff is the amoral brain surgeon, Dr Sovac, who transplants part of a gangster's brain into the body of his dying friend, creating a terrifying Jekyll-and-Hyde figure who starts murdering his former criminal associates (including, again, the wonderful Béla Lugosi). Finally, the incomparable Charles Laughton plays the sadistic Sire Alain de Maletroit in The Strange Door (dir. Joseph Pevney, 1951). Maletroit has kept his own brother locked in a dungeon for twenty years, and now wants to ruin the life of his niece by forcing her to marry a violent rogue. His plan is upset when the "rogue" is unexpectedly noble-hearted and attempts to rescue the girl, aided by an abused servant (Karloff).

Writer: John Colton
Actor: Boris Karloff
Producer: Burt Kelly
Actor: Charles Laughton
Cinematographer: George Robinson
Cinematographer: Irving Glassberg
Writer: Jerry Sackheim
Actor: Michael Pate
Cinematographer: Elwood Bredell
Actor: Bela Lugosi
Actor: Walter Kingsford
Actor: Anne Nagel
Actor: Morgan Farley
Actor: Beulah Bondi
Actor: Richard Stapley
Actor: Anne Gwynne
Actor: Jack Mulhall
Actor: Alan Napier
Actor: Stanley Ridges
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Director: Arthur Lubin
Actor: Violet Kemble Cooper
Actor: Frances Drake
Actor: Paul Cavanagh
Director: Joseph Pevney
Actor: Frank Reicher
Actor: Edmund MacDonald
Actor: Frank Lawton
Actor: Murray Alper
Actor: Sally Forrest
Writer: Eric Taylor
Music: Franz Waxman
Producer: Edmund Grainger
Music: Hans Salter
Writer: Edmund L. Hartmann
Music: Frank Skinner
Producer: Ted Richmond
Writer: Curt Siodmak
Actor: Paul Fix
Actor: Virginia Brissac
Actor: William Cottrell

Main Format
Blu-ray

Keyword Index
Maniacal Mayhem|Boris Karloff

Alternative Title
The Invisible Ray/Black Friday/The Strange Door

Colour
B/W

Region
Region B

Extras 1
High Definition extras tbc

Extras 2
Language(s):English, HardofHearingSubtitles:English, InteractiveMenu, Screenratio1-1.37:1

Extras 3
BonusFootage, Commentary:'TheInvisibleRay'and'TheStrangeDoor':AuthorStephenJonesandauthor/criticKimNewman;'BlackFriday':KevinLyonsandJonathanRigby., ImageGallery, 'TheSiredeMaletroit'sDoor'radioadaptations., Trailers

Catalogue Number
EKA70473

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