The Man Who Changed His Mind 1936  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Man Who Lived Again
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Boris Karloff, John Loder, Anna Lee, Frank Cellier, Cecil Parker, Donald Calthrop, Clive Morton, D.J. Williams, Lyn Harding, Brian Pawley
A bizarre professor, Doctor Laurence (Boris Karloff), experiments in brain transplants.
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn 1935  N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Murder in the Red Barn
Director: Milton Rosmer
Cast: Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman, Clare Greet, Gerard Tyrell, Ann Trevor, Dennis Hoey, Stella Rho, Quentin McPhearson, Antonia Brough, Noel Dainton
Based on a real murder, this story involves solving the case of sweet, young Maria Marten (Sophie Stewart) who was murdered by the evil Squire William Corder (Tod Slaughter) and her body hidden in a red barn.
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Murder at the Baskervilles 1937 N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
aka: Silver Blaze
Director: Thomas Bentley
Cast: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Lyn Harding, John Turnbull, Lawrence Grossmith, Robert Horton, Arthur Macrae, Judy Gunn, Arthur Goullet, Ralph Truman, Martin Walker, Eve Gray, Gilbert Davis, Minnie Rayner, D.J. Williams
Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Wontner in his last portrayal of Holmes) is called to the Baskervilles 20 years after his first adventure there. A race horse has been stolen and the groom murdered. An elementary problem for the super sleuth.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1936 N/R, 68 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: George King
Cast: Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, Graham Soutten, Bruce Seton, Eve Lister, D.J. Williams, John Singer, Davina Craig, Jerry Verno, Billy Holland, Norman Pierce, Aubrey Mallalieu, Ben Williams, Henry B. Longhurst
Later remade into the great musical, this is the early film adaptation of the George Dibden-Pitt play about a psychopathic killer–Sweeney Todd (Tod Slaughter)–who kills customers who come into his barbershop. The ex-customers become the main part of Mrs. Lovatt's (Stella Rho) meat pies.
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| 1. The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
aka: The Man Who Lived Again
2. Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
aka: Murder in the Red Barn
3. Murder at the Baskervilles (1937)
aka: Silver Blaze
4. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
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