Boris Karloff — Actor (44)
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Little Lost Robot (1962) IMDb TMDB
Little Lost Robot
director: Guy Verney actor: Boris Karloff / Maxine Audley …
When a robot is supposed to obey every command, what does it do when a technician tells it to "get lost"? The only surviving play from the anthology series, Out of This World, presented by Boris Karloff.
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The Juggler of Our Lady (1957) IMDb TMDB
The Juggler of Our Lady
director: Gene Deitch / Al Kouzel actor: Boris Karloff
Medieval times. A juggler has little success making a living; he puts on a hair shirt and becomes an ascetic, but attracts only other ascetics. Finally, in desperation, he becomes a monk. He visits the other monks, who all glorify the Lady with their skills: cooking, painting, sculpture, etc. He tries helping them, but botches it. A festival is held for the Lady, and each of the monks offers his gift, but the juggler has nothing. Frustrated, he juggles for her, all night, alone.
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Cracked Nuts (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cracked Nuts
director: Edward F. Cline actor: Bert Wheeler / Robert Woolsey …
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...
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The Miracle Man (1932) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Miracle Man
director: Norman Z. McLeod actor: Sylvia Sidney / Chester Morris …
other title: Spiel am Abgrund / El milagro de la fe
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
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Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tarzan and the Golden Lion
director: J.P. McGowan actor: James Pierce / Frederick Peters …
other title: Tarzan et le lion d'or / Tarzán y el león de oro …
Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan's African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lion Jad-bal-ja to save Haws from being sacrificed to a lion-god.
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Behind That Curtain (1929) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Behind That Curtain
director: Irving Cummings actor: Warner Baxter / Lois Moran …
other title: Tras la cortina
Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk.
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Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire (2007) IMDb TMDB
Le vampire déchu
director: Florin Iepan actor: 贝拉·卢戈西 / 克拉克·盖博 …
other title: Der gefallene Vampir / Le vampire déchu
On Valentines Day, 1931, Universal Pictures released the film Dracula - the first true horror movie. Its worldwide success catapulted the film's lead actor, Romanian-born Bela Lugosi, to overnight stardom. "Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire" traces the life and career of this mysterious man whose name became synonymous with the evil, yet magnetically compelling Count Dracula. Using archival still and film clips as well as interviews with film historians, actors and Lugosi himself, the special chronicles the meteoric rise and then precipitous decline of a talented yet tragic man who forever changed the face of horror films.