The Black Cat
The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie film that was surprisingly morbid and perverse for its time. Peter (David Manners) and Joan Allison (Julie Bishop) are honeymooning in Budapest when they meet mysterious scientist Dr. Vitus Verdegast (Lugosi) aboard a train.
When the trio's bus from the train station gets into an accident, the young couple accompanies Verdegast to the castle of the spectral Hjalmar Poelzig (Karloff), an architect and the leader of a Satanic cult.
Poelzig's treachery in World War I caused the deaths of thousands of his and Verdegast's countrymen, as well as Verdegast's own internment as a prisoner of war. While Verdegast was detained, Poelzig married first his wife, who later died, then hi
| Director: | Edgar Ulmer |
| Producer(s): | Carl Laemmle Jr. |
| Cast: | Herman Bing, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Luis Alberni, David Manners, Jacqueline Wells, Lucille Lund, Egon Brecher, Henry Armetta, Albert Conti, Anna Duncan, Andre Cheron |
