Just Saw this
again after many years and was highly disappointed. A waste of two good talents. At least they were paid for their names!
The sense itself was I.
the general opinion seem to be that at least bela lugosi's talent is being wasted, as i've watched him in different roles i found he was at his strongest, most convincing performances, when playing dramatic parts as an outcast, his most famous role, dracula, funny enough that role does not contain the sort of personality where i find lugosi performs at his best, i've gotten the idea he didn't get the part he deserved really and i read that he struggled in hollywood since english wasn't his own language. i guess the common knowledge today is karloff and lugosi starring each separately as movie history's most famous monsters, frankenstein and dracula, but recently i've found out they made quite a few movies together, i guess the most popular one is "the black cat", personally i preferred "the raven" if i recall right, also they took turn playing the famous monsters in the movie sequels, despite the portrayal in the "ed wood" (1994) movie people say they got along very well.
🎥 📽 🎞 💸 💵 💴 💶 💷 💰
cant get through my home,
den of loveless lust shallow,
been better off without left here alone,
in weird nightmare cant run from,
driftin in limbo since you went home.
Neither Karloff nor Lugosi are at their best here; Bela does what he can with the little he's given, and Boris walks through his role on autopilot. But the central attraction is Stanley Ridges as Kingsley/Cannon, who steals the picture from right under their noses, and he's my primary reason for periodic revisits to the film.
From everything I've read and heard over the years, the most frequently cited source for stories of any enmity between the two actors was Lillian, Lugosi's wife during the years of their professional collaborations. For whatever reasons, she didn't take to Karloff - she was on record as having considered him "a cold fish" - and seems to have resented his greater success more than anyone. According to their son Bela Jr, the bitterness and profanity portrayed in the Burton film would have been very much out of character for his father.