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#tod browning #rafaela ottiano #screenshots

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Topper Returns (1941) Roy Del Ruth

December 18th 2023

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badmovieihave · 10 months

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Bad movie I have Topper Returns 1941

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brokehorrorfan · 7 months

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The Devil Doll will be released on Blu-ray on October 24 via Warner Archive. The 1936 horror film is directed by Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks).

Garrett Fort (Frankenstein, Draula), Guy Endore, and Erich von Stroheim wrote the script, based on A. Merritt's 1932 novel Burn Witch Burn. Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, and Rafaela Ottiano star.

The Devil Doll has been newly restored in 4K from preservation elements. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historians Steve Haberman and Constantine Nasr (new)

Original trailer

Milk and Money - 1936 animated short

The Phantom Ship - 1936 animated short

An escaped convict (Lionel Barrymore) uses a mad scientist's shrinking serum to create tiny people. He then disguises himself as a kindly old lady running a toy store, so he can secretly send his tiny assassins out to exact a terrifying revenge on the men who framed him.

Pre-order The Devil Doll.

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schlock-luster-video · 10 months

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On July 10, 1936, The Devil Doll debuted in the United States.

#the devil doll #lionel barrymore #horror movies #gothic horror #horror #italy #rafaela ottiano #svengoolie #tcm underground #movie art #art #drawing #movie history

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raynbowclown · 21 days

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Curly Top

Curly Top (1935) starring Shirley Temple Wealthy businessman adopts Curly Top and her lovely older sister. But then, he begins to fall in love with the older sister! So then … Continue reading Curly Top

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#1935 #Arthur Treacher #Jane Darwell #John Boles #Rafaela Ottiano #Rochelle Hudson #Shirley Temple #Stanley Andrews

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twittercomfrnklin2001-blog · 6 months

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Mandalay

Michael Curtiz’ pre-Code melodrama MANDALAY (1934, Criterion Channel, TCM) is sheer, unadulterated hokum, but it’s such expertly made hokum you may find it irresistible. It doesn’t start out that well. Although Curtiz and cinematographer Tony Gaudio do a great job of turning the Warner’s backlot into Rangoon, Kay Francis is supposed to be a carefree innocent at first, and that kind of casting never sat well with her. She’s a Russian émigré living on a boat with gunrunner Ricardo Cortez. When he takes her out for a night on the town, he even has to explain to her that evil Asian Warner Oland’s Jardin d’Orient is both a nightclub and a brothel. And, of course, you have to get past the now-outdated convention of casting Caucasian actors in the principal Asian roles while Asians are confined to bits and functionaries. Cortez is not the most faithful of lovers. To settle his debts with Oland, he trades Francis to him to act as the club’s hostess. At first, she rebels, but then the outgoing hostess (the wonderful Rafaela Ottiano) convinces her to use her position to “make men do what you want them to…And then you can laugh at them, just like one is laughing at you now.” And suddenly it becomes a real Kay Francis movie. When she makes her official entrance as club hostess in a dazzling sequined gown by Orry Kelly, it’s fashion as power. In a quick montage she’s shown getting men to give her all she wants, even as her eyes reveal the dying soul inside. There;s the inevitable redemption later, but even then, Frances’ great dark eyes seem to carry the weight of the world’s sins. Lyle Talbot is surprisingly understated as the alcoholic doctor who gives her a reason to improve, while Ruth Donnelly and Lucien Littlefield are funny as tourists, the wife trying to get away from Topeka, the husband unable to get it out of his mind.

#melodrama #michael curtiz #kay francis #ricardo cortez #warner oland #rafaela ottiano #lyle talbot #ruth donnelly #orry kelly

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darchildre · 11 days

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Within a minute of the credits ending, we are introduced to the greatest thing in this movie. Her name is Malita, she is played by Rafaela Ottiano, and I think she is cinema's first female mad scientist.

Malita is perfect and I adore her.

#sara's cinema corner #the devil-doll #her mad scientist husband marcel is also great #(he's been in prison with paul the protagonist)

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thewarmestplacetohide · 2 months

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Dread by the Decade: The Devil-Doll

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Source Material: Burn Witch Burn! by Abraham Merritt Year: 1935 Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Rating: UR (Recommended: PG) Country: USA Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes

Director: Tod Browning Cinematographer: Leonard Smith Editor: Frederick Y. Smith Composer: Franz Waxman Writers: Tod Browning, Guy Endore, Garrett Fort, Erich von Stroheim Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Rafaela Ottiano, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Emil Coulvet, Rollo Lloyd, Grace Ford

Plot: A man wrongfully convicted of murder seeks revenge using a chemical that shrinks people.

Review: Despite a silly premise and some tonal issues, this film largely succeeds due to fun visuals and an engaging lead.

Overall Rating: 3.5/5

Story: 3/5 - The central idea is corny and the first few scenes almost feel like they're from another film, but much of this is overshadowed by moments of genuine tension and emotion.

Performances: 4/5 - Barrymore is great as a wrongfully convicted man who longs for both revenge and to reconcile with the daughter he left behind.

Cinematography: 3.5/5 - Not as striking as prior Browning films, but still interesting.

Editing: 3.5/5

Music: 3.5/5 - Not amazing, but subtle and fitting in a way many soundtracks from this era weren't.

Effects: 3.5/5 - The effects used to make people look tiny fluctuate in terms of quality, but are mostly fun and effective.

Sets: 4/5

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 4/5 - Lavond (Barrymore)'s disguise as an elderly woman is surprisingly convincing.

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Trigger Warnings:

Very mild violence

Ableism (brief)

#The Devil-Doll (1935)#The Devil-Doll #Tod Browning #American #Dread by the Decade #review #1930s

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byneddiedingo · 8 months

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Kay Francis, Warner Oland, and Ricardo Cortez in Mandalay (Michael Curtiz, 1934)

Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland, Lyle Talbot, Ruth Donnelly, Lucien Littlefield, Reginald Owen, Etienne Giardot, David Torrence, Rafaela Ottiano, Halliwell Hobbes, Bodil Rosing, Herman Bing. Screenplay: Paul Hervey Fox, Austin Parker, Charles King. Cinematography: Tony Gaudio. Art direction: Anton Grot. Film editing: Thomas Pratt. Music: Heinz Roemheld.

You get what you might expect from a movie titled Mandalay: Orientalist hooey, with lots of gun-running and opium dealing in sleazy night clubs, with expat Europeans and Americans fleecing tourists with the aide of sinister Eurasians. (There was no other kind of Eurasian in Hollywood movies of the '30s; here they're played by Warner Oland, who made a career of the type before going straight into yellowface as Charlie Chan, and Rafaela Ottiano, who filled the bill whenever Gale Sondergaard was unavailable.) Kay Francis does what she can with a role that doesn't make a lot of sense: She's the Russian-born Tanya Borodoff, who has somehow fallen in love with Tony Evans (Ricardo Cortez), a gun-runner and all-around heel. When he dumps her, she becomes Spot White (no, I don't get the name either), the madam of the sleazy night club in Rangoon run by Nick (Oland). She doesn't want to fall that far from grace, but needs must. When she's threatened with deportation to Russia by the police commissioner (Reginald Owen), she blackmails him by reminding him that they once had a night together when he was drunk, and that she has her garter adorned with his medals to prove it. He gives her the money she needs to leave Rangoon and head for the "cool green hills" near Mandalay. Now calling herself Marjorie Lang, she boards a paddle-wheel steamer upriver, on which she meets an alcoholic doctor (Lyle Talbot) who intends to atone for accidentally killing a patient by working with black fever patients in the jungles. They hit it off and she helps him sober up, but, wouldn't you know it, Tony Evans resurfaces on the very steamer. This sounds like a lot more fun than it is, although Michael Curtiz's professionalism and Tony Gaudio's cinematography gives it some occasional finesse. Francis slinks about nicely -- a woman passenger tells her, "You certainly can wear clothes" -- but she doesn't have the spark she fires in her best roles, perhaps because Cortez and Talbot are such dull leading men. The ending is the sort of thing that would have the heads of the Production Code enforcers exploding, but even that isn't enough for me to recommend sitting through the rest of the movie.

#Mandalay #Michael Curtiz #Warner Oland #Kay Francis

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