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Sketchin’ 80

Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, though best known for playing Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula respectively, appeared together in several films from 1934 to 1945, the first of which is the subject of my latest piece, 1934’s The Black Cat. Ostensibly based on the Edgar Allan Poe story, the movie involved satanic worship and… a chess game. Great stuff!

Other Karloff/Lugosi team ups include The Raven (1935), The Invisible Ray (1936), Son of Frankenstein (1940), Black Friday (1940), You’ll Find Out (1940), and The Body Snatcher (1945).

I can’t help but smile when I see the two together, though, thinking about Martin Landau, playing an elderly drug addled Bela Lugosi, going on a tear about the acting “talent” of Boris Karloff in the film Ed Wood. May have to catch that one again.