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Human Monster, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Growing Thames Death Toll Opening with one of several bits of impressive London location work, a body afloat then affronted police, lectured by Commissioner George Street, especially to Hugh Williams as detective Holt, in Dark Eyes Of London, 1939, also known by its Hollywood title, The Human Monster, starring Bela Lugosi.
Human Monster, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Dearborn's Home For The Destitute Blind Having just dismissed a suspicious copper, Bela Lugosi as insurance impresario Dr. Orloff, takes a shot of something, whereupon we follow Lou (Arthur Owen) to the blind home, greeted by creepy Jake (Wilfred Walter), then joining proprietor Dearborn, who might (?) also be Lugosi, in Dark Eyes Of London, 1939, a.k.a. The Human Monster.
Human Monster, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Your English Police Are Wonderful! Again on location in London, introducing second-billed, Norwegian-born Greta Gynt, as Diana, daughter of a murder victim, escorted by colorful Chicago cop Grogan (Alexander Field), greeted by his befuddled Scotland Yard minder Holt (Hugh Williams), in Dark Eyes Of London, 1939, a.k.a. The Human Monster, starring Bela Lugosi.
Human Monster, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Brilliant But Unbalanced Cut to first scene for Bela Lugosi (who sailed all the way to London for this one picture), as Dr. Orloff, his relation to murders reported in the previous scene not quite explained as yet, making a loan to Gerald Pring as Stuart, in Dark Eyes Of London, 1939, a.k.a. The Human Monster.
Drum, The (a.k.a. Drums) -- (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Sick Of This Darn Beard An aide advises the governor (Francis L. Sullivan) about the under-cover work of British officer Carruthers (Roger Livesey) in the northwest of what is now Pakistan, whom we meet exchanging info in the field, in Alexander Korda’s film from the A.E.W. Mason novel, The Drum (a.k.a. Drums, 1938.
Bulldog Drummond At Bay (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You'd Be The Two Men Two thugs (Brian Buchel, Jim Gerald) have kidnapped Scottish airplane designer Caldwell (Richard Bird) who, escaping momentarily, lucks out when his SOS reaches the reclining title character (American John Lodge, adopting an accent), in the English-made Bulldog Drummond At Bay, 1937.
Bulldog Drummond At Bay (1937) -- (Movie Clip) I Hope I Didn't Burn You We immediately suspect that Doris (Dorothy Mackaill), acting like she has car trouble as she appears at the hero’s remote house on the Scottish moors, is linked to the skulduggery of the night before, the title character (John Lodge) playing it cagey, in Bulldog Drummond At Bay, 1937.
Bulldog Drummond At Bay (1937) -- (Movie Clip) The Man Behind The Guns Cracking start, headlines tell the tale of Kalinsky (Hugh Miller), European arms dealer between the wars, whom, when he meets Gregoroff (Victor Jory), we learn is plenty diabolical, Wilfrid Hyde-White the assistant, in the 1937 version of Bulldog Drummond At Bay, starring John Lodge.
Drum, The (a.k.a. Drums) -- (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Open, North West Frontier Gaudy and mappy opening sequence followed by a big splash of on-location Northwest Frontier shots, from The Drum, 1938, (a.k.a. Drums) starring Sabu, directed by Zoltan Korda.
Drum, The (a.k.a. Drums) -- (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Lean, Hard, Hungry, Free Men Roger Livesey and his British column from India have just arrived in the territory of Tokot, where the dreaded Prince Ghul (Raymond Massey) is plotting behind the back of his peacemaking brother, in the Korda brothers colonial epic The Drum, 1938.

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