Boris Karloff Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926),starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the...

Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."

Film historians, and producer Richard Gordon, talk about the horror movie career of cult star Boris Karloff.

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed comm...

Victor, an adventurous young swashbuckler in 19th-century New Orleans, takes possession of a barber shop as the result of winning a duel, and decides...

Richard Dreyfuss hosts a celebration of the 80 year history of Universal Studios. Founded as IMP by Carl Leammle to oppose Edison's Motion Picture Tus...

Crime writer Ian Rankin investigates The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Starting with Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmare in September 1885, Ra...

The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune and...

A fire worshipping cult of Indian is disbanded by a man, his elephant and tiger.

A story of Vienna following World War I, in which the butchers became millionaires and the aristocrats became beggars, told against a background of mo...

Narrated by Boris Karloff, this Movietone short spoofs the dangers of teenage rebellion around the world.

1962 telefilm adaptation of the classic American play about a deranged family and the string of murders they flippantly commit

While in Europe, Chaddie Green, a society girl, discovers that she has been left penniless. She returns to the United States and meets Duncan MacKail,...

A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.

The only son of Gov. Adele Fenway, Bob, is engaged to Marian Lee, and at a dinner Adele announces her intention of giving them a wedding house. Having...

Documentry on the career of Jack Pierce, a make up man from the Golden Age of Hollywood, most remembered for creating the looks of various classic mon...

An EIGHT minute excerpt from the 1944 feature, House of Frankenstein, released in the 1960's to the 16mm & 8mm home movie market.