| | Mummy DVD (3 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Action/Adventure DVDs, Horror Movies, Romance Videos, Recommended, Vintage, Ancient World, Mummies | | Starring | Boris Karloff, Leonard Mudie, Edward Van Sloan, Kathleen Byron, Zita Johann, David Manners, Bramwell Fletcher, Henry Victor, Arthur Byron, Eddie Kane | | Director | Karl Freund | | Art Director | Willy Pogany | | Director of Photography | Charles Stumar | | Editor | Milton Carruth | | Producer | Carl Laemmle Jr. | | Screenwriter | John L. Balderston |
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Director's Comments; Behind The Scenes Horror classic starring Boris Karloff as the mummy who rises from the dead in 1921, many centuries after his burial in Egypt. The lonely creature, however, would like to be reunited with his lady love -- who was also buried centuries ago... Archaeologists digging in Egypt uncover the 3000-year-old mummy of Im-ho-tep, a prince who was buried alive, with a curse placed on anyone who opens his tomb. The disturbance brings restores life to the mummy, who escapes and assumes the persona of Ardeth Bey (Boris Karloff), a mysterious Egyptian whose one goal is to reincarnate his lover of 3000 years ago. When he believes he sees a shadow of his lost love in lovely young Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann), only her would-be suitor, Frank Whemple (David Manners), and resourceful Dr. Muller (Edward Van Sloan) can save her from body from being consumed by the soul of a long-dead woman. Thanks to director Karl Freund and an understated performance by horror legend Boris Karloff, THE MUMMY is a dreamlike masterpiece. Cinematographer Karl Freund made his film directing debut with "The Mummy." Mummy Reviews: "[T]he first 10 minutes of this oft-remade but never bettered classic...are among the most eerily effective in the horror canon." -- Grade: A--- Tim Purtell, Entertainment Weekly Mummy | List Price | $14.98 (You save $5.29) | | Studio | Universal Studios Home Video | | Orig Year | 1932 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank | 5981  | | CD Universe Part number | 1282386 | | Catalog number | 61020327 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Sep 28, 1999 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 74 Minutes | | Movie Details | B&W; Mono Sound; Dolby Noise Reduction; Digital Sound; Collector's Edition |
Mummy DVD Region 1 Keep Case Collectors Edition Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital Mono 2.0 - English Additional Release Material: Featurette: "Mummy Dearest" Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer Audio Commentary: Paul M. Jensen - Film Historian Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus Text/Photo Galleries: Production Notes Stills/Photos: "The Mummy Archives" - A Gallery of Posters and Rare Universal Photographs Biographies: Cast & Director
Purchase Mummy Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Dracula DVD (1931) Universal Studios Home Video
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$10.29 This is the first screen version of Bram Stoker's famous tale based on the smash hit stage production. Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) arrives in London and immediately works to enrapture and transform into vampires young Lucy Weston (Frances Dade) and her friend Mina Seward (Helen Chandler). After he succeeds in turning Lucy, and Mina's health suddenly deteriorates, Mina's father (Herbert Bunston), calls in a specialist, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). Van Helsing quickly recognizes Dracula's vampirism, and sets about saving Mina (and in the process, becomes Dracula's archenemy). The film, arguably the most influential of the legend's film versions, launched Lugosi's career in horror movies and forever invited vampires across Hollywood's threshold.
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack Spanish; Behind The Scenes
| | Frankenstein DVD (1931) Universal Studios Home Video
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$10.29 FRANKENSTEIN is James Whale's first stylish, expressionist film (INVISIBLE MAN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN) to grace the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s and 1940s (DRACULA, THE MUMMY). Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), embark on an unholy mission by stealing a body from a graveyard and a human brain from a medical college. Unbeknownst to Frankenstein, however, Fritz takes a violent and murderous abnormal brain. Henry's strange letters about his experiments worry his fiancée, Elizabeth (Mae Clark), and friends Victor (John Boles) and Dr. Waldman (Edward Van Sloan). They arrive at Frankenstein's laboratory to find the spectacular scene of creation under way--and Frankenstein intoxicated with his own godlike power.
FRANKENSTEIN is in many ways the original horror classic, virtually creating the genre itself, leading to numerous sequels and myriad imitators. Whale's ability to give humanity to the Monster is one of the film's most stunning successes.
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Director's Comments; Behind The Scenes
| | Wolf Man DVD (1941) Special Edition
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$9.69 In this horror classic, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.) returns to his father's castle in Wales to join a beautiful woman (Evelyn Ankers). Talbot escorts her to a local carnival, where a gypsy fortune teller, Bela (Bela Lugosi), predicts the horrors that await and brings to light the curse of the wolf. Later, Bela, who already has transformed into part man/part wolf, attacks Larry to transform him as well.
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Behind The Scenes
| | Bride Of Frankenstein DVD (1935)
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$10.29 James Whale's BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, the sequel to his classic FRANKENSTEIN, is considered one of the best horror films of all time. After the Monster (Boris Karloff) is trapped in a windmill fire, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) assumes that the fiendish murderer has perished...but he's not dead yet. Rising from the rubble, the Monster is on the loose again--lonely and misunderstood, and killing those who cross him. Frankenstein wants to forget his creation, but the evil Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) has a diabolical plan to create a mate for the Monster, and Frankenstein must comply or else.
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Behind The Scenes
| | Creature From The Black Lagoon DVD (1954) Full Frame; Subtitled; Black & White
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$10.29 A research team digging in the Amazon comes across the fossilized hand of a human fish creature. That night, the creature emerges from the swamp to kill. So begins one of the more recognizable classics of the science fiction and horror genres. Shot originally in 3-D, this has been a late-night TV hit for decades. The hand makes its way back to the oceanographic institute and soon conscientious scientist David Reed (Richard Carlson), greedy scientist Mark (Richard Cunha) and the beautiful girl they fight over, Kay (Julia Adams) are heading up the Amazon to find more fossils. Instead, of course, they run into the real thing, and terror begins. While Mark and David fight over what to do next, the creature falls in love with Kay, and makes plans of his own. Island diver Ricou Browning plays the creature in the spectacular underwater scenes, the highlight being a beautifully creepy scene of Kay going for a swim, while the smitten creature swims along below her, transfixed. The pounding, horrific score is credited to conductor Joseph Gerhsenson but was actually written by a team of composers, including Henry Mancini.
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Behind The Scenes
| | Invisible Man DVD (1933)
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$10.29 With THE INVISIBLE MAN (the first film in a series), James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN) provides another stylish, blackly comic entry in the popular Universal horror cycle of the 1930s. When a mysterious man, face wrapped in bandages and wearing dark goggles, arrives in a small English village one snowy night, things start to go awry. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains), a chemist who has discovered an invisibility formula, wants desperately to find the antidote, but a side effect of the drug is driving him insane. Becoming gradually more unhinged, Griffin strips off his nose, bandages, and clothes before the stunned villagers and sets about terrorizing the countryside. When he progresses from mayhem to murder, Griffin's beloved Flora (Gloria Stuart) and colleague Dr. Kemp (William Harrigan) work with police to try to capture the elusive Invisible Man. It is a race against time to stop Griffin's plans to make the world "grovel" at his feet. Watch for the stunning special effects during the snowy climax to this gripping, atmospheric horror classic.
Black & White; Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Behind The Scenes
| | ...And God Created Woman DVD (1956) Widescreen
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$22.15 In Roger Vadim's directorial debut, his then-wife, Brigitte Bardot, plays Juliette, a sumptuous orphan beauty who sparks an incendiary and erotically charged love triangle between herself and three men who desire her. Spending her days barefoot and barely working in the town tabac, Juliette loves to listen to the jukebox at the local bar and saunter past the men in town; all the while, she has eyes only for local thug Antoine. Millionaire Eric Carradine desires Juliette as much as he desires Antoine's family's oceanfront property. After being coldly spurned by Antoine, Juliette is rescued from a return to the orphanage when Antoine's timid younger brother, Michel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), proposes marriage, at the suggestion of Carradine. As the unlikely couple works hard at achieving a semblance of happiness, the dark forces that dwell inside Juliette's restless spirit force her closer and closer to Antoine. Vadim lets Bardot revel in the CinemaScope and Technicolor beauty of the film, and the simmering mambo-infused soundtrack traces the plot's erotic undercurrents as they drive all the characters toward an inevitable climax of erotic and violent explosion, personal revelation, and a New Wave definition of love and romance.
92 minute DVD feature film starring Brigitte Bardot and Jea n-Louis Trintignant.
| | Bob Hope - Laughing With The Presidents DVD (2004)
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$7.79 The final Bob Hope television special is also one of his most hilarious and touching. Detailing his lifelong friendships with nearly a dozen presidents, LAUGHING WITH THE PRESIDENTS captures some his most outlandish political material, as well as presenting interviews with a cavalcade of guests. A touching way to say goodbye to one of America's most loved comedians.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Venture Bros. - Season 2 DVDs (2004)
$25.39 A popular addition to the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim roster, THE VENTURE BROS. is a sharp and humorous lampoon of the classic JONNY QUEST cartoons. Hank and Dean are two dimwitted teens who--along with their father (brilliant scientist Dr. Venture) and their bodyguard, Brock Sampson--confront various miscreants and criminals in a series of adventures. Unfortunately, the boys are too clueless to solve many of the puzzling situations they find themselves in, and often barely escape with their lives. This release includes the entire second season of the show.
An inspired spoof of 1960s action cartoons such as "Johnny Quest," The Venture Bros. follows the bizarre misadventures of Hank and Dean, who believe themselves to be an unusually gifted team of "brains" and "brawn" while actually possessing very little of either. The boys travel the world with their renowned scientist-father, Doctor Venture and treat even the most mundane situation as a bold new adventure. As a result, they often find themselves in danger with a host of oddball villains - but rarely find their way out. They rely instead on their body-guard/undercover government agent Brock Sampson, voiced by Patrick Warburton of "The Tick" and "Seinfeld"
| | Human Lanterns DVD (1982) Widescreen; Special Edition; Subtitled
$15.09 When a mutual love for a prostitute spurs an intense rivalry between Master Lung and Master Tan, two skilled competitors in a lantern-based martial arts contest, Lung commissions the help of Chao Chun Fung, a lantern maker still bitter about being scarred by Lung during a previously held contest. Realizing the opportunity to destroy Lung and Tan alike, the insane Chao agrees to help, but his choice of material for the lanterns he makes is rather unseemly: he uses human skin of a variety that is rather important to both competitors. This Shaw Brothers production is a bit unusual in the way it combines elements of horror with traditional wuxia fantasy-style martial arts--also found in later films such as CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON and HERO. Also, thanks to director Sun Chung--a rumored perfectionist--it is also atypically gorgeous for being produced by the notoriously quick and mechanical Hong Kong studio.
Two rivals, one rich and the other poor and impoverished, enter an unholy pact to win an annual lantern-creating contest in their villages. However the terrifying secret behind their remarkable creations lies within the supple flesh of local maidens, who are disappearing at the hands of a demonic assailant!
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