Top billed cast

1. 

   Boris Karloff

   Edmond Bateman

2. 

   Bela Lugosi

   Dr. Richard Vollin

3. 

   Lester Matthews

   Dr. Jerry Holden

4. 

   Irene Ware

   Jean Thatcher

5. 

   Samuel S. Hinds

   Judge Thatcher

6. 

   Spencer Charters

   Col. Bertram Grant

7. 

   Inez Courtney

   Mary Burns

8. 

   Ian Wolfe

   Geoffrey 'Pinky' Burns

9. 

   Maidel Turner

   Mrs. Grant

10. View more

Reviews

A review by tmdb28039023

Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-09-03

The Raven succeeded in 1935 where Roger Corman and Vincent Price failed 28 years later. The 1963 version of The Raven was written by Richard Matheson, who is quoted by Wikipedia as saying, "After hearing that they wanted to make a movie out of a poem, I felt it was a total joke, so comedy was the only way to do it."

Matheson's mistake was precisely that he approached the material lightly, though; it's because Raven '35 takes itself deathly seriously — director Lew Landerss and screenwriter David Boehm are more popish than the Pope (or, in this case, more Poe-pish than Poe) — that the fi...read the rest

Recommendations

1. The Blue Gardenia65%
2. The Unhealer58%
3. Peeping Tom74%
4. The Invitation64%
5. The Night Walker65%
6. Poker Night59%
7. The Invisible Man75%
8. Race with the Devil64%
9. The Independent65%
10. Nick of Time62%
11. Fear in the Night59%
12. The Black Cat67%
13. The Shadow60%
14. Van Helsing64%
15. Dracula Has Risen from the Grave66%
16. Trap62%
17. The Batman77%
18. Pyewacket59%
19. Silver Bullet66%
20. The Medusa Touch68%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$115,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• plastic surgery
• revenge
• serial killer
• mad doctor
• torture chamber
• car accident
• gothic romance
• poe fanatic
• mad surgeon
• psychotic obsessions
• obsessed with a woman