Unlike his rival Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi starred in and / or provided supporting appearances in relative few good movies.* On Sunday, January 22, 2012 TCM is showing three of his better efforts:
(That's Bela in the middle on the left; he really doesn't have an awful lot to do in this movie.)
They're all tons o'fun -- The Black Cat especially -- and film buffs / aspiring screenwriters might want to look at this article that speculates on what Murders was originally meant to look like & how it ended up. None of them are widely shown but Island Of Lost Souls is especially hard to come by nowadays, so I suggest marking your calendar / setting your TiVo.
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* For the record:
Dracula
Murders In The Rue Morgue
Chandu The Magician (plays the villain)
White Zombie
The Black Cat (co-stars w / Karloff)
The Return Of Chandu (plays the hero!)
The Raven (co-stars w / Karloff)
The Invisible Ray (co-stars w / Karloff)
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
International House (supporting George Burns, Gracie Allen & W.C. Fields)
Island Of Lost Souls (supporting Charles Laughton)
Son Of Frankenstein (supporting Karloff & Basil Rathbone)
The Wolfman (supporting Lon Chaney Jr.)
Ninotchka (supporting Greta Garbo [!])
The Body Snatcher (supporting Karloff)
The other 100 or so movies he made are all varying degrees of suckalicious.