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Black Friday (Universal 1940)
Universal’s Black Friday, released in 1940, is a slick, science fiction thriller starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Much has been made over the […]
Phantom of the Opera [...]
Phantom of the Opera, Universal’s lavish 1943 Technicolor remake of the 1925 Chaney classic, was quite a departure from the studio’s usual classic monsters […]
Night in Paradise (Universal [...]
Universal released Night in Paradise on the 3rd of May, 1946. Directed by Arthur Lubin, the film tells the tale of story-teller Aesop who, […]
Arthur Lubin
Arthur Lubin was born Arthur William Lubovsky in Los Angeles, California, on the 25th of July, 1898. Famous for his hand in catapulting Abbott […]
