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Any other foreign language versions of Universal films?


Does anyone out there know if any other Spanish (or other non-English language) versions of Universal horrors were made? I know there was a Spanish version of The Cat Creeps (Lupita Tovar's in it), but was there a Spanish Frankenstein? Or The Mummy?

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I did a powersearch, putting 'Universal' for the production company and 'spanish' for language, from 1910 to 1960.. it gave me the following 16 titles..

Alas sobre El Chaco (1935)
...aka Tempestad sobre los Andes (1935) (USA)
...aka Wings Over the Chaco (1935) (USA)
Cabeza de Pancho Villa, La (1956)
Correo del norte, El (1960)
...aka Northern Courier (1960) (International: English title)
Don Juan diplomático (1931)
Drácula (1931/II) 7.2/10 (241 votes)
...aka Spanish Dracula (1931) (USA)
Goyescas (1942)
It Started with Eve (1941) 7.1/10 (120 votes)
Máscara de hierro, La (1960)
Oriente y occidente (1930)
Resurrección (1931)
Ride the Pink Horse (1947) 7.9/10 (192 votes)
Te quiero para mí (1944)
...aka I Want You for Myself (1944) (International: English title: informal literal title)
Tenorio del harem, El (1931)
Touch of Evil (1958) 8.4/10 (10821 votes)
Tres gracias, Las (1936)
Voluntad del muerto, La (1930)
...aka Cat and the Canary, The (1930) (USA)

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How about a gift set containing all the Spanish editions … ay, sueños dulces!

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I have the 2001 Region 1 DVD of Dracula (the "Special Edition" before the "Legacy Collection" sets came out), which contains both the American and Spanish versions of the film. The production notes that accompany the Spanish version indicate that Dracula was the only one of Universal's classic monster movies to have been simultaneously filmed in a Spanish version.

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most of them have become "lost films" like most of the silent horror films.

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This was a short term practice that had stopped in 1932 probably due to the cost, the depression and it was extremely hard to do. Other than Dracula, I have tried watching some of the alternative language Laurel & Hardy, added to the wonderful box set, but I found L&H were more focused on the language instead of slapstick gag. (Of course, that killed the movies because they were masters of timing.)

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