1936. Karloff 48. Marsh, 22. Karloff playing 2 roles was exceptionally well done on the scree., Photography, costumes, and sets were 1st class. Outstanding! Thank you.
Karloff said "It's quite unusual for me to be able to get my make-up on in less than an hour as I can for this role." The original working title of the film was THE BLACK ROOM MYSTERY but was released as simply THE BLACK ROOM. Audiences responded enthusiastically to the film, but critics felt it was so-so. Katherine de Mille, btw, was Cecil B.'s adopted daughter. Thanks for the upload!
Boris Karloff was such a great Actor ! I never saw this movie before. I love how he ( Karloff as the bad brother) is reclining in the chair with his one leg casually draped over the arm of the chair talking,while facing his enemies. I feel bad he was type cast to a specific Genre,but it worked so well for him, and he seemed to accepted it. Jonathan Frid from the TV show "Dark Shadows" was also one who had amazing talent but was known for playing a certain type of character, You could see he had an acting style much like Karloff,and struggled with only being known for playing "Barnabas Collins". Marion Marsh was so beautiful !
I am delighted to have found this film. I saw it as a teenager, a mere 55 years ago. I have always remembered the evil brother's monologue about his love of pears. "I like the feel of a pear". The villians always have the best lines. The quality of this print is exceptional.
@c.a.savage5689 I also saw this film about 55 years ago! It made such an impression on me that I wanted to become an actor as great as the Mummy. Of course, I never could never be as great as Karloff!
I love her and was very fortunate to get to meet her at a screening in the late 90s in Los Angeles. She was lovely and I am so happy that I got to tell her what a fan I was. I also got her autograph, which I treasure.
What a very well shot film ! Particularly well done is the vocal scene @20:23, a dramatic demonstration of the mechanics of the lungs and rib cage of the vocalist !
A "B" which breaks out of bounds. Great work from Karloff, exquisite Germanic lighting, and some really clever split screen work, even including two pan shots!
All great!!! Katherine De Mille was always too so great ....wow shes in another awesome movie w BK ..." UNCONQUERED" w Gary Cooper & Paulette Goodard....they play American Indians father & daughter .........
Excellent. I love these short black and whites. I curl up with a cup of tea and blanket on a stormy night 🌙 as one would with a creepy Poe short story!
Good print. Good production values, sets, extras.... Was rooting for Anton, but no Hollywood ending for him. Liked the use of mirrors throughout the film. The dual roles give Karloff to exude mildness and menace. B+
When I started watching "The Veil, Thriller & Colonel March here on YT, I had no idea what a versatile actor he was! People who knew & worked with him stated he was such a sweet, kind & humble man. He stated that his one regret with Frankenstein was when the "monster" accidentally drowned Maria. Which was pre-code, but it was heavily edited later, because it was disturbing to some. It was restored to the original in 1980 when the prints were discovered.
Ignoring Mashka after she sings to him and tries to kiss him: "A pear is the best fruit! Lots of juice in a pear! Adam should have chosen a pear! I like the feel of a pear- and when you're through with it..." [throws the pear core away]. He airily dismisses his mistress when she confronts him about his plan to marry the colonel's daughter. Then he turns menacing and murderous when Mashka reveals she knows the secret of his Black Room, where he disposes of those whom he's murdered when they became inconvenient to him. Poor Mashka, his latest "juicy pear," is to be murdered and tossed away just like the pear core when he's "through" with her. Karloff was a freaking genius at playing these scary types of men. That glower of those deepset eyes behind those prominent brows- and that unmistakable Karloff voice!
During the wedding - supposedly in 19th-century Roman Catholic Hungary - the choir sings the "Our Father" (Otche Nash) in Church Slavonic, the liturgical language of the Slavic Orthodox Churches. Anyone know why?
One of Karloff‘s best & I believe least known films playing twins of contrasting natures, naturally! Back in the day on Friday evenings a Seattle TV station on Friday night used to have a d program called NIGHTMARE THEATER & this Karloff film played often. Great to find it on You Tube now since I had not seen it since those bygone days. Thanks for posting it as it remains one of Karloff‘s most intriguing performances.
Re-release version, as Columbia was still using the sparkly logo in 1935 and the old logo theme music. Marian Marsh was a very good young actress (see: "Svengali" with John Barrymore when she was just 18). What might have been had she not been disillusioned by Hollywood and left the business some four years later. Karloff was good, as always. After all the Oscars in 1934, Harry Cohn could leave Poverty Row behind and make more "A" pictures like this one.
Where was this supposed to be set? Budapest was mentioned. At the wedding scene, they used Old Slavonic Orthodox hymns, culminating with the Lord's Prayer even though the church wasn't Orthodox, looked more Catholic. Creative license I suppose. The Hungarian Kingdom (ended after WWI) did include Orthodox Rusyns in Transcarpathia, as well as Orthodox Romanians and Orthodox Serbs further south. Anyway, the movie captured the mood of Eastern Europe pretty well.
What if the brother was spared just before gunshot. As in Charles Days of Glory depictions by a generous General cos I was more than a mother. In the Veil ...and It was desperate men which designed the fate a la Boyer.
When there is a Certain intellectual mind in love. WITHOUT BETRAYAL QUALITIES AND NO REASONABLE REASON FOR DOUBT AVAILABLE. A LA KKA. ... TIME. IS ASKED FOR. M LADY NOT MACBETH
Father of the two 2 UNOs with dogs twice one for each gent with Mommy me oh dear included forms the Crib o Carribean o De Carlho I set everyday until I also play on dual string dualo my fingers Harp o my lilt. Dr Virna.Pandey
Karloff appeared to be relishing his dual role and that he "makes the most of some Hays Code defying hints of blasphemy." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Room_(1935_film)
Also, a very foolish, desperately damaged recklessly unscrupulous, arrogant, narcissistically ambitious woman filled with blind hubris and an unbridled lust for and pursuit of revenge and absolute power at any cost makes use of every manipulative tactic she can muster in an effort to get her way with a man to become a powerful baroness but fails to sway the sick abusive cowardly insecure totally reprobate liar, the baron who ignores no fleshly urge and uses her and after pressing her flesh discards her like a partially consumed pear as he does with the meek, defenseless, unaware and unprotected including his own brother, all over whom he wields circumstantial unappointed dominion, having done the same to the forlorn muse after refusing to make her his baroness, when out of the foul dark cloud of such waste emerges a noble and valiant individual who belongs to an entirely different friendly species and goes straight to the source of the beastly ravaging and intervenes causing an awakening among the lethargic yet still barely breathing individuals among the surrounding populace and leads the charge against the overstimulated spoiled homicidal regent leading to his demise and to the final outcome in which it is shown how the gluttonous pair of not so passionate lovers who now lie entirely expunged and spent from their endless careening down the path of unabated consumption ended up paying the highest price for their respective forays into absolute folly.
1936. Karloff 48. Marsh, 22. Karloff playing 2 roles was exceptionally well done on the scree., Photography, costumes, and sets were 1st class. Outstanding! Thank you.
Karloff said "It's quite unusual for me to be able to get my make-up on in less than an hour as I can for this role." The original working title of the film was THE BLACK ROOM MYSTERY but was released as simply THE BLACK ROOM. Audiences responded enthusiastically to the film, but critics felt it was so-so. Katherine de Mille, btw, was Cecil B.'s adopted daughter. Thanks for the upload!
I had to tape over the Livestream "bug" to watch this, but it's a pretty good copy with good sound.
Thanks for the info!
What a beautifully made film. Technically it still sets a high standard.
Boris Karloff was such a great Actor ! I never saw this movie before. I love how he ( Karloff as the bad brother) is reclining in the chair with his one leg casually draped over the arm of the chair talking,while facing his enemies. I feel bad he was type cast to a specific Genre,but it worked so well for him, and he seemed to accepted it.
Jonathan Frid from the TV show "Dark Shadows" was also one who had amazing talent but was known for playing a certain type of character, You could see he had an acting style much like Karloff,and struggled with only being known for playing "Barnabas Collins".
Marion Marsh was so beautiful !
I am delighted to have found this film. I saw it as a teenager, a mere 55 years ago. I have always remembered the evil brother's monologue about his love of pears. "I like the feel of a pear". The villians always have the best lines. The quality of this print is exceptional.
@c.a.savage5689 I also saw this film about 55 years ago! It made such an impression on me that I wanted to become an actor as great as the Mummy. Of course, I never could never be as great as Karloff!
Great Boris Karloff movie!!...
Wow, a Boris Karloff I've never even heard of !! 🤩
Really good movie
Loved this creepy, iconic movie, forever .....................🖤🖤🖤
I love anything with Karloff.
Never heard of this movie, but enjoying it
Marian Marsh was one of the few truly incandescent beauties of the Golden Age of Hollywood, but is not remembered adequately. I do not know why.
@1LSWilliam 😲 * Perhaps, (See the Following Link) THIS will help….
* en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Marsh
"Incandescent"? 🧐
Agreed. I just watched her in a film called Under Eighteen yesterday.
Because her films are not shown in mainstream tv.
I love her and was very fortunate to get to meet her at a screening in the late 90s in Los Angeles. She was lovely and I am so happy that I got to tell her what a fan I was. I also got her autograph, which I treasure.
What a very well shot film ! Particularly well done is the vocal scene @20:23, a dramatic demonstration of the mechanics of the lungs and rib cage of the vocalist !
Loved the movie..and the dog 👍
I haven't seen this one in YEARS. Thank you, but it leaves me with terrible depression.
Thanks i was looking for this movie
A "B" which breaks out of bounds. Great work from Karloff, exquisite Germanic lighting, and some really clever split screen work, even including two pan shots!
Not seen that before --- it was BRILLIANT --- thank you so much for uploading x
Such wonderful acting.amazing .these actors really knew their craft. Both sir Karloff and DAME MARIAN.WILL BE MISSESD FOREVER.SUCH TALENT. ❤❤❤❤😊😊
Sir Boris Karloff - I never knew he was Knighted. I bet most people never heard that!
All great!!! Katherine De Mille was always too so great ....wow shes in another awesome movie w BK ..." UNCONQUERED" w Gary Cooper & Paulette Goodard....they play American Indians father & daughter .........
Never even heard of this movie before... don't know why, it was very good! Karloff was excellent and the ending was a real nail-biter
Excellent. I love these short black and whites. I curl up with a cup of tea and blanket on a stormy night 🌙 as one would with a creepy Poe short story!
The best I've seen in such a long time
We need more like this in the world 😊
A Good 🎥 in a fine clear print,Thanks 👋
Great movie throughout! Wonderful script and actors. Film quality is excellent; seems like it was recently made. Thank you.
great movie
Excellent Art Direction ....😊...
Stephen Goosson was the art director.🖌️🖍️🖊️🖋️
Thank you 👍Great movie 🥰 A fan of the great and talented Boris Karloff 👍
Good print. Good production values, sets, extras.... Was rooting for Anton, but no Hollywood ending for him. Liked the use of mirrors throughout the film. The dual roles give Karloff to exude mildness and menace. B+
I know me too😢
Some amazing vocals… I especially liked the choir in the church towards the end of this film. (basso profundity) 🌝
Excellent acting by all the cast.
When I started watching "The Veil, Thriller & Colonel March here on YT, I had no idea what a versatile actor he was! People who knew & worked with him stated he was such a sweet, kind & humble man. He stated that his one regret with Frankenstein was when the "monster" accidentally drowned Maria. Which was pre-code, but it was heavily edited later, because it was disturbing to some. It was restored to the original in 1980 when the prints were discovered.
The dog was great❤❤❤❤❤
Ignoring Mashka after she sings to him and tries to kiss him: "A pear is the best fruit! Lots of juice in a pear! Adam should have chosen a pear! I like the feel of a pear- and when you're through with it..." [throws the pear core away]. He airily dismisses his mistress when she confronts him about his plan to marry the colonel's daughter. Then he turns menacing and murderous when Mashka reveals she knows the secret of his Black Room, where he disposes of those whom he's murdered when they became inconvenient to him. Poor Mashka, his latest "juicy pear," is to be murdered and tossed away just like the pear core when he's "through" with her. Karloff was a freaking genius at playing these scary types of men. That glower of those deepset eyes behind those prominent brows- and that unmistakable Karloff voice!
Directed by Roy William Neill, who went on to direct most of Universal's Sherlock Holmes series with Basil Rathbone in the 1940's.
And a very good director, too. It's surprising he didn't get bigger projects.
QUE GRAN PELICULA...GRACIAS...!!!
Good one 👏 what goes around comes around, nature takes its course...
GOOD OLS MOVIE! Boris looks old even when he was young!
The dog saves the day! All right Tor!😂
perfect!
Excellent movie!!!
Great movie 😊
this is a smart story. worth watching.
To be honest, I didn't realise Boris Karloff was such a good actor.
Thankyou x
Buenísima peli,el perro un genio valiente e inteligente.🐶💕🤓👏👏
Great doggie!!!!!
47.12. He blows out an electric bulb. 😮
A good movie in 60min.
During the wedding - supposedly in 19th-century Roman Catholic Hungary - the choir sings the "Our Father" (Otche Nash) in Church Slavonic, the liturgical language of the Slavic Orthodox Churches. Anyone know why?
I doubt they thought anyone would notice... I'm glad that you did.
The number of commercials, especially toward the end, was criminal!
Huh, went from being somewhere in old Bavarian Tyrol to a chase in the Old West near San Diego
hungary
@@j.g.c.2494 : oh? Well the chase at the end is definitely California
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TCM just had a day dedicated to Marian Marsh
One of Karloff‘s best & I believe least known films playing twins of contrasting natures, naturally! Back in the day on Friday evenings a Seattle TV station on Friday night used to have a d program called NIGHTMARE THEATER & this Karloff film played often. Great to find it on You Tube now since I had not seen it since those bygone days. Thanks for posting it as it remains one of Karloff‘s most intriguing performances.
THE BLACK ROOM
Re-release version, as Columbia was still using the sparkly logo in 1935 and the old logo theme music. Marian Marsh was a very good young actress (see: "Svengali" with John Barrymore when she was just 18). What might have been had she not been disillusioned by Hollywood and left the business some four years later. Karloff was good, as always. After all the Oscars in 1934, Harry Cohn could leave Poverty Row behind and make more "A" pictures like this one.
Where was this supposed to be set? Budapest was mentioned. At the wedding scene, they used Old Slavonic Orthodox hymns, culminating with the Lord's Prayer even though the church wasn't Orthodox, looked more Catholic. Creative license I suppose. The Hungarian Kingdom (ended after WWI) did include Orthodox Rusyns in Transcarpathia, as well as Orthodox Romanians and Orthodox Serbs further south. Anyway, the movie captured the mood of Eastern Europe pretty well.
I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that Murray Mayer provided the costumes.🙄
She reminds me of Jane Powell.
The countryside for that region looks like the desert!
don't display intrusive ads during climactic moments, you philistine!
It ends as it begins. Together in birth and....in death. 😢
Stream City makes noises during the movie to advertise their channel. Avoid!
When they showed the horses getting the cold showers over Dundee. DUNE and DOCK A SUBLIME SUPERIOR IN THE GUILD O RHINELANDS
They didn't cos. I got them
Permutation Combination of the individual with the dog 🐕 for interruption. Many a Window la Windsor I opened. wedding vows
What if the brother was spared just before gunshot. As in Charles Days of Glory depictions by a generous General cos I was more than a mother. In the Veil ...and It was desperate men which designed the fate a la Boyer.
why would he keep his arm folded when he is alone??
He was born with that birth defect.
protective gesture ...
he's trying to train himself so it will be automatic when in company
Creepy creeps are everywhere
How can two younsters grow up to look like 50+ Boris Karloff just twenty years later?Think about it.
It's a 🪰 🐉 tadpole doggone world 🌎 👓 👓 👓 👓 👓
Present. Said He. Dog 🐕 Ma
When there is a Certain intellectual mind in love. WITHOUT BETRAYAL QUALITIES AND NO REASONABLE REASON FOR DOUBT AVAILABLE. A LA KKA. ... TIME. IS ASKED FOR. M LADY NOT MACBETH
Father of the two 2 UNOs with dogs twice one for each gent with Mommy me oh dear included forms the Crib o Carribean o De Carlho I set everyday until I also play on dual string dualo my fingers Harp o my lilt. Dr Virna.Pandey
God awful
You obviously don't know what a Good Film is...😅 LOL ... just my opinion
Karloff appeared to be relishing his dual role and that he "makes the most of some Hays Code defying hints of blasphemy." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Room_(1935_film)
Too old for the part.He was 50 plus.
An evil twin brother disposes of his enemies in a secret death chamber on his estate.
Good for you.
Also, a very foolish, desperately damaged recklessly unscrupulous, arrogant, narcissistically ambitious woman filled with blind hubris and an unbridled lust for and pursuit of revenge and absolute power at any cost makes use of every manipulative tactic she can muster in an effort to get her way with a man to become a powerful baroness but fails to sway the sick abusive cowardly insecure totally reprobate liar, the baron who ignores no fleshly urge and uses her and after pressing her flesh discards her like a partially consumed pear as he does with the meek, defenseless, unaware and unprotected including his own brother, all over whom he wields circumstantial unappointed dominion, having done the same to the forlorn muse after refusing to make her his baroness, when out of the foul dark cloud of such waste emerges a noble and valiant individual who belongs to an entirely different friendly species and goes straight to the source of the beastly ravaging and intervenes causing an awakening among the lethargic yet still barely breathing individuals among the surrounding populace and leads the charge against the overstimulated spoiled homicidal regent leading to his demise and to the final outcome in which it is shown how the gluttonous pair of not so passionate lovers who now lie entirely expunged and spent from their endless careening down the path of unabated consumption ended up paying the highest price for their respective forays into absolute folly.