The Black Cat

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1934. Vintage oversize borderless double weight photograph from the set of the 1934 film, showing Boris Karloff in high priest regalia. Typescript snipe on the verso, along with stamps crediting photographer Roman Freulich.

One of several great films by director Edgar G. Ulmer, and along with his 1945 noir classic Detour, probably his finest achievement—an efficient tale in which a young couple with a broken-down automobile land in a decidedly art deco haunted house, where Karloff resides and Lugosi is visiting.

Michael Weaver notes: "Boldly thumbing its nose at convention, the film is a veritable catalog of human corruption. Sadism, shades of incest, revenge, murder, torture, voyeurism, Satan worship, ailurophobia, necrophilia, rape, and insanity are weaved into the nearly plotless story with remarkable precision."

8.5 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine.

Weaver, p. 87-95.

[Book #135018]