The Raven

The Raven

61 mins | Horror | July 8, 1935

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.

The Raven

61 mins | Horror | July 8, 1935

The Raven
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Universal Pictures
Original title The Raven
Directors Victor Noerdlinger, Scott R. Beal, Lew Landers
Writers David Boehm

Cast

Boris Karloff

as Edmond Bateman

Bela Lugosi

as Dr. Richard Vollin

Lester Matthews

as Dr. Jerry Holden

Irene Ware

as Jean Thatcher

Samuel S. Hinds

as Judge Thatcher

Spencer Charters

as Col. Bertram Grant

Inez Courtney

as Mary Burns

Ian Wolfe

as Geoffrey 'Pinky' Burns

Maidel Turner

as Mrs. Grant

Raine Bennett

as Poe (uncredited)

Al Ferguson

as The Crook (uncredited)

Nina Golden

as Dancer (uncredited)

Jonathan Hale

as Bedside Dr. at Jerry's Right (uncredited)

Arthur Hoyt

as Chapman - Buyer of Poe Memorabilia (uncredited)

Walter Miller

as Bedside Dr. at Judge's Right (uncredited)

Bud Osborne

as Policeman (uncredited)

Madeline Talcott

as Bedside Nurse (uncredited)

Cyril Thornton

as Dr. Vollin's Butler (uncredited)

Anne Darling

as Autograph Hound