The Raven (1935 film)

The Raven is a film from 1935 starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff from the production of Carl Laemmle.

Action

Dr. Vollin, a successful surgeon ( Bela Lugosi ), falls in love with the young Jean Thatcher ( Irene Ware), which he has saved the life after a car accident. Of course, her fiancé Geoffrey ( Spencer Charters ) about not pleased, but her father facing up to the intentions Vollins in the way. Random encounters at the same time a criminal named Edmond Bateman ( Boris Karloff ) in a Vollin, forcing him to give him a new face with surgery. Vollin inevitably distorted Batemans face and is now forcing this to the pressure medium, since he Vollins, is the only one which the operation can be undone again to clear Jeans father out of the way. In the basement of his house where Vollin hides a torture chamber, this seems to succeed even under a giant swinging pendulum, which is equipped with a sharp cutting edge. Geoffrey penetrates into the torture chamber, but is overwhelmed by Vollin and Bateman. But at the last moment detects the distorted Bateman that Vollin do not intend to give him back his old face, and he freed jeans father. Here, Bateman, however, shot by Vollin, but stopped him anyway, and both eventually die a horrible death in the torture chamber.

Background

The title was chosen based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem, although the film has little to do with the content. It can be found only scattered allusions to Poe, such as a pendulum as a torture device or a stuffed raven in Dr. Vollins ( Bela Lugosi ) Office, who even gives the name of the film, although he has nothing to do with the plot. At the beginning of the film Lugosi recited a stanza from Poe's poem and are located within a short monologue as admirer of Poe to detect, resulting in the further course of the film Vollins preference is to be understood for the torture. An adaptation of the poem or of another substance Poe 's " The Raven " is not.

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