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Like a lovingly guided midnight tour, this book covers the seductive shadows of the most fascinating horror films and melodramas from the 1930s and 1940s. From the bloody censorship battles behind 1935's Bride of Frankenstein, to the sexual controversies of 1941's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the gruesome Nazi atrocities of 1943's Women in Bondage, this book delves into newly excavated research to tell the behind-the-scenes sagas of some of Hollywood's most frightening films.
Peek behind the scenes, revel in on-the-set anecdotes and get a look at the script notes illuminating characters like WereWolf of London, Richard III, Panther Woman and Rasputin. Included are profiles of the performers and filmmakers who made the nightmares feel all too real in the darkened theaters of yesteryear, and an examination of the factors that have kept these films popular so many decades later.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bela, Bestiality and the Amours of Erik the Ape: Murders in the Rue Morgue
2. "Why Won't You Die?": Rasputin and the Empress
3. The Vanity of the Panther Woman: Island of Lost Souls
4. "A Sin Against the Holy Ghost!": Early Drafts, Studio Politics and Censorship Sagas of Bride of Frankenstein
5. "It's the Devil ... Creeping Out of Hell": WereWolf of London
6. Procuring Mad Love
7. Unholy Royalty: Universal's Tower of London
8. "A Madman's Dream": Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
9. Monogram's Nazi Horror Peep Show: Women in Bondage
10. The Odyssey of Mildred Davenport—to Acquanetta—to Paula the Ape Woman
11. How to Make a Monster Rally: The Production of House of Frankenstein
12. His 20-Year-Long Last Bow: The Final Act of Basil Rathbone
13. Horror Box Office
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
