Night Monster (1942)
Adventure | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, Irene Hervey, Ralph Morgan, Don Porter, Nils Asther, Frank Reicher
Director: Ford Beebe
Captain Blood (1935)
Action | Adventure
An enslaved doctor and his comrades in chains escape and become pirates of the Robin Hood variety.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson
Director: Michael Curtiz
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Comedy | Drama | War
In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish resistance and they must prevent it's being delivered to the Germans.
Starring: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges, Sig Ruman
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Boom Town (1940)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
Starring: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill
Director: Jack Conway
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
Wolf von Frankenstein returns to the Baronial manor from the United States with his wife Elsa and son Peter. He not made welcome by the locals who are still terrified of his father's works and the monster he created. The local Burgomaster gives him a sealed briefcase left by his father and inside, Wolf finds his father's scientific notes. At the manor house he meets his father's assistant Igor who has a surprise for him: the monster his father created is still alive, though in some sort of coma. Wolf's initial attempts to re-animate the creature seem to fail but when Peter says he saw a giant in the woods, it appears he's met success. When people are mysteriously killed in the village there is little doubt that the monster is responsible.
Starring: Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson, Donnie Dunagan
Director: Rowland V. Lee
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Larry Talbot finds himself in an asylum, recovering from an operation performed by the kindly Dr. Mannering. Inspector Owen finds him there, too, wanting to question him about a recent spate of murders. Talbot escapes and finds Maleva, the old gypsy woman who knows his secret: when the moon is full, he changes to a werewolf. She travels with him to locate the one man who can help him to die – Dr. Frankenstein. The brilliant doctor proves to be dead himself, but they do find Frankenstein's daughter. Talbot begs her for her father's papers containing the secrets of life and death. She doesn't have them, so he goes to the ruins of the Frankenstein castle to find them himself. There he finds the Monster, whom he chips out of a block of ice. Dr. Mannering catches up with him only to become tempted to monomania while using Frankenstein's old equipment.
Starring: Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, Maria Ouspenskaya, Dennis Hoey, Lon Chaney Jr.
Director: Roy William Neill
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
Adventure | Crime | Drama
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon
Director: Roy William Neill
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Crime | Drama | Horror
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.
Starring: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwill
Director: Sidney Lanfield
