![]() ![]() I saw four of his shows, over four nights, at the Leper Chapel in Cambridge in 2013. James stories, dressed as James, in suitably atmospheric locations, by the light of one candle, for several years now. ![]() Robert Lloyd Parry has been performing M. I have a R2 DVD but I gather the film is also on the series of multi-disc Universal films that Scream Factory are putting out in the US.Ī Thin Ghost and others. The print and/or restoration was also excellent. It's more sumptuous and Gothic, better at engaging the eye on a purely visual level, the the "proper" Universal horrors of the period. One thing in the films favour is the design. Broderick Crawford is the hero, taking what I suppose you'd have to describe as the Bob Hope role. Basil Rathbone and (especially) Bela Lugosi are underused. It's a rather lame horror comedy of the Old Dark House variety (actually, it's pretty much The Cat and the Canary despite the pretence of being based on Poe's story). Universal's 1941 The Black Cat was disappointing, but I suppose I should have expected it to be obscure for a reason. Such a long wait, and that's the lame title I came up with.I can only apologise. ![]()
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