The Raven (1935)

This horror film is inspired by, rather than based on, the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Raven". Like other Poe stories that were produced at this time, the title and various elements were taken from the original story, but the plot is usually totally new.

The film stars Bela Lugosi as a doctor who is totally obsessed with Poe. He ends up falling in love with a woman that he saved after she had gotten into a terrible car accident. His desire for the woman reaches the point where the doctor decides to eliminate all who get in his way...Poe-style.

Boris Karloff is an extraneous character. He is a murderer on the run who comes to the doctor hoping to get a new face so that he can escape the law. However, it is thanks to Karloff that we have a happy ending (sort of).

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