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	Black cat (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A fl cat is a symbol historically associated with witchcraft, and anarchism.
		The Black Cat, a nightclub in Washington, DC Black Cat Commandos, an elite counter terrorism unit in India
		The Black Cats, the official nickname of Sunderland AFC
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_cat_(disambiguation) (155 words)

	The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer
		Both films have machines controlled by clock dial-like structures: the small dial that seems to control the music in the living room in The Black Cat, the large dial used by the son in Metropolis with his arms and entire body.
		In both films, we are at a remote location, a large house on which numerous eccentric and strange people converge, and which is the center of strange and unusual activity.
		In both films, modernistic edifices are built on the ruins of the destruction: a symbolic image that seems to haunt Ulmer.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/ulmer.htm (9008 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - The Black Cat
		Edgar Ulmer's melancholy, twilight film of the confrontation between two disturbed World War I veterans, one warped by an evil faith and the other a shattered ghost of a man driven by revenge, and the young couple that becomes entangled in their twisted game, is a fable of modernity darkened with war, obsession, and madness.
		The Black Cat's impressionist wasteland is composed of equal parts severe allegory and pulp poetry and has the feel of a sustained epilogue, like the slow process of sifting through ruins after some great cataclysm.
		The Black Cat's ability to peer around the corners of its own genre notions of master criminals and horror fiends allows for a film that is both luxuriously mysterious and strangely relevant, the shadow of a social critique within the elaborate body of a work of baroque horror.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1219 (614 words)

	The Black Cat (1934)
		All that remains of Poe in the final release is the film's title and the brief appearances of a fl cat.
		Peter believes that Joan's strange behavior at the moment of the fl cat's death was unusual, but Werdegast writes off what happened as a result of the strong narcotic he gave her.
		He strokes the fur of a fl cat draped in his arms during his solitary walk, pausing in front of each case - his face is reflected in the glass.
	www.filmsite.org /blac.html (2439 words)

	Biography for Bela Lugosi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It ran for three years, and was subsequently, and memorably, filmed by Tod Browning in 1931, establishing Lugosi as one of the screen's greatest personifications of pure evil.
		Film rights to the play were sold to Universal, which announced that Lon Chaney would play the title role.
		That same year he returned to Universal for The Black Cat (1934), the first (and best) of several chillers that teamed him with Karloff, whose career eclipsed Lugosi's almost from the start.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000509/bio (1719 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The film was budgeted at a third of what the studio had spent on Dracula (1931) or Frankenstein (1931), and allowed a brief fifteen-day shooting schedule.
		The Black Cat was produced shortly before the Production Code tightened its reins on the motion picture industry, at a time when clever filmmakers could still weave a surprising amount of adult material into a film if they exercised a subtle touch.
		The film climaxes as a group of worshipers arrive at Poelzig's castle to participate in a fl mass during which Joan is to be sacrificed on an altar of Satan.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,17869,00.html (1544 words)

	Greatest Films of 1934
		The film includes a number of memorable scenes, include the "Walls of Jericho" sequence and their hitch-hiking scene together.
		Notable for the first film teaming Powell and Loy (who later would become famous with The Thin Man series) and for being the film that bank robber John Dillinger watched (for its similarity to his own life), prior to being killed outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre by the FBI in 1934.
		However, in league with the devious Chauvelin (Raymond Massey), she sets a trap for the Pimpernel in return for the lives of her arrested friends, and is astounded to learn that the Pimpernel is her own husband.
	www.filmsite.org /1934.html (1518 words)

	Horror Express Forums -> REVIEW - The Black Cat [1934]
		Wells screams relentlessly in the film's final minutes and Manners is a poor example of the masculine hero, as evidenced by his bone-headed actions towards the end.
		THE BLACK CAT is Ulmer's first foray into the genre and it's a unique looking film from the era.
		To my knowledge, this is the first time they ever collaborated in a feature film and what a showcase it is. We haven't had any stars in the genre making films for the big studios for a long time, and the work here reminds us of what we're missing.
	www.horrorexpress.com /forums/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=258 (1441 words)

	Black cat (disambiguation) - TheBestLinks.com - Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe, India, Marvel Comics, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Black cat (disambiguation) - TheBestLinks.com - Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe, India, Marvel Comics,...
		Black Cat, Black cat (disambiguation), Edgar Allan Poe, India, Marvel Comics...
		The Black Cat (nightclub), a nightclub in Washington, DC
	www.thebestlinks.com /Black_Cat.html (165 words)

	Abstracts
		Key in these films is the suppression of the girls’ self-expression and their (re)gaining of their voices, both literal and metaphorical.
		Some film music composers have the knack to let their creativity inspire them towards crafting a distinctly unique composition based on themes and melodies mostly their own, or if not, at least disguised and altered in a musically imaginative way.
		Film composers and arrangers may inscribe subtle comments into their original scores utilizing the semantic connotations of 19th-century opera and program music.
	www.stanford.edu /group/filmmusic/abstracts.htm (6309 words)

	Ziggy's Video Realm: Lugosi and Karloff in The Black Cat (1934) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Well written, superbly directed, and amazingly atmospheric, The Black Cat may have nothing to do with the Poe tale its title draws from, but it is among the most unique and interesting films of its era and genre, and is not to be missed.
		This truly is a dark film with dark themes: Satanism, human sacrifice, people being skinned alive, even a hint of incest (not biological, but legal)… For certain, being a movie of the 1930s, much of this is accomplished through suggestion and shadow, but to have it there at all is almost shocking for the period.
		The Black Cat marks the first pairing of studio giants Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and proves to be one of their most effective.
	www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/reviews/blackcat.html (1165 words)

	Black Cat, The Review (1934) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The only aspect that concerns fl cats is Werdegast's irrational phobia about them: the second he sees one in Poelzig's house, he wails, cringes and flings a well-aimed knife at it.
		Satanist Poelzig is an architect who has built his self-designed house on the mass graves of those he sent to their deaths, and the striking set design makes a nice change from the traditional old dark house or draughty castle.
		It's uncertain how seriously The Black Cat is meant to be taken, as at times it's almost self-mocking, but at others all too real horror is employed, the enormity of the huge scale slaughter of the First World War.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=777 (594 words)

	Architects as saints or psychos
		Leading off with some early bad press for the profession is the 1934 horror film "The Black Cat," in which Boris Karloff is a loony architect who kills the wife of his nemesis, Bela Lugosi, preserves her in a glass coffin, and then marries and kills Lugosi's daughter.
		In 1949's "The Fountainhead," one of the funniest serious films ever made, we don't see Gary Cooper's genius-architect character carrying a mere roll of drawings.
		The image of the architect as a batty artist type was advanced once again in 2002's indie film "World Traveler," in which Billy Crudup is an architect having a midlife crisis.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/12/08/HOGC0A7VKI1.DTL&type=printable (608 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - The Black Cat (1934), Edgar G. Ulmer, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, dvd review
		Most may recognize The Black Cat (1934) as the first onscreen teaming of legendary horror stars Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.
		The film is not particularly scary, but it creates a superb feeling of dread and darkness.
		The Black Cat is often lumped in with the other Universal horror pictures of the era.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /blackcat.shtml (801 words)

	The Edgar G Ulmer Collection
		Among film buffs, Ulmer is best known for his 1946 nightmare road movie Detour, but some of his more obscure B (or X) films are livelier.
		The most one can hope for are films that make the most of the modest resources and transcend their limitations of capital; films whose obvious budgetary shortcomings reveal the difficult conditions under which the filmmaker struggled to realize his/her vision, the financial obstacles that were cleared by ingenuity and clever craftsmanship.
		One hopes for films that do not rest upon established techniques and premises, but rather explore (even if clumsily and sometimes with unsatisfactory results) the possibilities and promise of an art form whose limits are not often enough tested.
	www.alldayentertainment.com /online-store/scstore/allday/ulmer/aboutulmer.html (1405 words)

	EUFS: The Black Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The film is heavily influenced by the tradition of German expressionist fantasy as characterised in Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
		The Black Cat describes the clash between two WWI enemies, played by Karloff and Lugosi.
		As is characteristic of much of the German expressionist work, the design in The Black Cat is of vital importance in creating the mood of the film.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/the_black_cat.html (217 words)

	Black cat (disambiguation) biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Black cat, a symbol historically associated with witchcraft and evil.
		The Black Cat (nightclub), a nightclub in Washington, DC Black Cat (manga), a manga (Japanese comic book)
		Black Cat Commandos are an elite counter terrorism unit in India
	the-black-cat.biography.ms (49 words)

	Hard Boiled Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Black is his last name; he is not given any first name in the stories, just like the heroine of his novel Fast One (1932).
		The Black Cat (1934) is a famous horror thriller, discussed in the article on its director, Edgar G. Ulmer.
		Sternberg's films explicitly influenced the early crime stories of Borges, and it is possible that they were well known to American writers of underworld stories, too.
	members.aol.com /mg4273/hardboil.htm (11723 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Queer Horror
		The result was a film that brilliantly visualizes a dazzling netherworld of "gods and monsters" infused with a queer sensibility.
		The Black Cat was released after the Hays Code, but its ethos is strictly pre-Code, featuring all manner of strangenesses from quasi-necrophilia to satanism to a man skinned alive in gruesome silhouette.
		This economical film, clocking in at a mere 71 minutes, gives Griffin plenty of room to exercise his evil wit as he laughingly depants a stuffy policeman, thwacks an old man with a broom, and most shocking, does an outre striptease that leaves his astounded audience staring at empty space.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /23/universalhorror.html (1461 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: The Black Cat (1934) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nefarious situations begin manifesting when Lugosi is horrified by a sleek fl cat who slinks into the room, at which he tosses a knife {the cat may have been a demon in feline form}.
		The helpless honeymooners eventually escape and embark upon a train to get as far away from there as possible, with the ending scene of the writer and his little wife observing a review of one of his stories based upon the experience, to which it is claimed that it is far too fictional...
		The Black Cat featured the first-ever production in which horror giants Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff act together, and their rapport is quite engaging - the stage presence is tangible even through the screen.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302526191?v=glance (1921 words)

	The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934) aka The House of Doom; The Vanishing Body
		It was one of a mini-spate of Edgar Allan Poe-based films during the 1930s featuring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff - Lugosi had earlier appeared in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) and Lugosi and Karloff would later pair up for The Raven (1935).
		The film’s director, Hungarian-born Edgar G. Ulmer, had begun in silent German cinema, emigrated to the USA and worked steadily for the B studios throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
		The film’s plot, which manages to pack in twisted revenge schemes, war crimes, Satanism and human sacrifice, necrophile obsession, the slightly distasteful concept of Karloff marrying both his enemy’s wife and daughter, chess games for human souls and an ending where Lugosi plans to flay Karloff alive, certainly makes it quite a curiosity piece.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/blackcat34.htm (889 words)

	Boris Karloff at Brian's Drive-In Theater
		Boris Karloff's first starring film role in his native England, and Britain's first true horror feature, was this long-lost tale of a famed Egyptologist who returns from the dead to wreak vengeance on the thieves of a sacred jewel.
		Boris Karloff's first starring film role in his native England, and Britain's first true horror feature, was this tale of a famed Egyptologist who returns from the dead to wreak vengeance on the thieves of a sacred jewel.
		The Black Castle (1952) with Lon Chaney Jr.
	www.briansdriveintheater.com /boriskarloff.html (4479 words)

	The Black Cat starring Karloff & Lugosi - Classic Film Home Page
		Poelzig's attention to Joan compel the couple to pack their bags until they learn they are being held captive.
		Trapped in the mausoleum-like house, the Allisons discover that Poelzig functions as a high priest at Black Mass, and he has chosen Joan to be the Devil's bride.
		Werdegast frees Joan before she can be sacrificed and when Poelzig catches up to them, him and Werdegast engage in a fight.
	www.angelfire.com /pa3/karloff/theblackcat.html (474 words)

	Trivia for The Black Cat (1934) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The satanic prayer Poelzig chants during the fl mass scene consists of phrases in Latin, the most recognizable being "cum grano salis" (with a grain of salt).
		Edgar G. Ulmer admitted in an interview that Edgar Allan Poe's story was credited to draw public attention, despite the fact it had nothing to do with the story in the movie.
		Among the unconventional elements of this film was the soundtrack.
	indie.imdb.com /Trivia?0024894 (239 words)

	Cat Resources
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	The Black Cat (aka House of Doom) Film Review - Time Out Film
		Devised and directed by Ulmer, most obscure of all the German émigrés in Hollywood, The Black Cat owes nothing at all to the Poe short story but everything to the splendours of the German-American expressionist fantasy tradition.
		Virtually plotless, it describes the sadistic, guilt-ridden clash between Karloff and Lugosi, enemies from WWI; the Karloff character was reputedly inspired by Aleister Crowley.
		The annual Time Out Film Guide includes 15,000 films reviewed over the last 36 years by Time Out critics, covering every area of cinema: Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors, documentaries and avant garde, French, Far Eastern, classic silents and 1930s comedies.
	www.timeout.com /film/67905.html (302 words)

	1934 in film - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
		See also: 1933 in film, other events of 1934, 1935 in film, list of 'years in film'.
		January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn[?] (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finally purchased the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum[?] for $40,000.00.
		The Black Cat[?], starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/19/1934_in_film.html (193 words)

	BOOK REVIEWS
		One film that begs reevaluation is Blake of Scotland Yard (1937), which features, according to Price, "...a giant homicidal idiot and a terrifying hag who blows her nose on her shawl." Another loony delight is 1937's Forbidden Adventure (also known as Angkor) about a city literally ruled by a group of apes.
		Price's production notes for this film are particularly revealing, as he describes how the producers used miniatures and lighting to create the illusion of reality on a shoestring budget.
		He also puts the film in its historical context: Lugosi worked on the film during the darkest days of the post-code horror ban in Hollywood.
	www.monstersfromthevault.com /BookReviews.html (931 words)

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