Movies: Boris Karloff

A kindly but desperate Alsatian innkeeper named Mathias murders and robs a rich Jewish merchant staying at his inn, but the ghost of his victim will not let him rest. Meanwhile, a mysterious Mesmerist has come to town, claiming he has made many crim...

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer....

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s....

Richard Grant, imprisoned in India for a crime he did not commit, escapes and makes his way to Africa....

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s....

Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election....

A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar....

A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets....

Comprised of 4 episodes from the unsold TV series "The Veil" (1958) - "Summer Heat," "Genesis," "Food on the Table," and "Jack the Ripper."...

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country....

Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer....

This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes) starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, head of Scotland Yard's Department D.3, otherwise known as The...

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 plac...

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"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's star dancer falls in love with a young socialite who drinks to forget a personal tragedy, among other ...

Richard Dreyfuss hosts a celebration of the 80 year history of Universal Studios. Founded as IMP by Carl Leammle to oppose Edison's Motion Picture Tust, it soon grew under the leadership of 21 year old production head Irving Thalberg with classic sil...

A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with....

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds....

An embellished account of the 1803 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, ...

A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy....