Recent Posts Tagged With 'evelyn ankers'

• The Wolf Man Legacy Collection

  Posted on Monday July 20th, 2009 at 20:25 in 1930s, 1940s, bela lugosi, legacy collection, lon chaney jr, evelyn ankers, lionel atwill

  The Wolf Man was the last addition to the Universal Monster Pantheon that truly impacted pop culture. Like the Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster, and like Kharis the Mummy, the Universal Wolf Man became the prototype for most werewolf li...

• Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection

  Posted on Saturday June 13th, 2009 at 11:32 in boris karloff, 1930s, 1940s, bela lugosi, john carradine, mad science, legacy collection, lon chaney jr, james whale, cedric hardwicke, evelyn ankers, george zucco

  Perhaps the very best entry in Universal's "Legacy Collection" of DVD multipacks compiling their classic monster movies in handsome, archive-quality packages, is the "Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection." In this post, I review the five films include...

• Dracula: The Legacy Collection

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 00:04 in Dracula, 1930s, bela lugosi, john carradine, tod browning, legacy collection, lon chaney jr, evelyn ankers, david manners, edward van sloan

  I've long held the opinion that the original Universal Studio's "Dracula" film, one of the very important first building blocks of the cinematic horror genre is overrated.Watching it in close promixity to the sequels from the 1930s and 1940s and, mor...

• The Invisble Man Legacy Collection

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 16:10 in Vincent Price, john howard, 1930s, 1940s, invisible man, claude rains, peter lorre, john carradine, legacy collection, james whale, cedric hardwicke, evelyn ankers

  Over the past few years, Universal has been releasing some fantastic DVD collections, prime among these have been the "Legacy Collection" series. While I can quibble with some of the choices of what was included in a couple of the sets, there is no q...