Discover Lew Landers’ The Raven Poster. Immerse yourself in the anguish and tension of this psychological thriller, enhanced by captivating performances and intense direction.
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Description of this The Raven Poster
The Raven is a 1935 American horror film directed by Louis Friedlander (who began being credited as Lew Landers the following year) and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. Believed to have been “suggested by” Edgar Allan Poe’s 1845 poem of the same title, excerpts from which are quoted at several points in the film, it was adapted from an original screenplay by David Boehm. Lugosi plays a Poe-obsessed neurosurgeon who has a torture chamber in his basement, and Karloff plays an escaped murderer on the run from the police whom Lugosi manipulates into doing his dirty work.
After Jean Thatcher, a young dancer, is injured in a car accident, her father, Judge Thatcher, and her fiancé, Dr. Jerry Halden, implore neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Vollin, now conducting only research, to come out of retirement and perform a delicate operation on her cranial nerve roots. Vollin is insensitive to human suffering and initially refuses to help, but when Judge Thatcher tells him that, in the opinion of his former colleagues at the hospital, only he can successfully perform the operation, Vollin’s vanity persuades him to help.
A month after the operation, Jean has recovered, and Vollin has become obsessed with her. She is grateful to Vollin for curing her, as well as for making Jerry his assistant, but when Vollin tells her during a checkup in his living room that he hired Jerry “to give him something to replace what he’s losing,” she avoids his embrace and makes an excuse as to why she must leave. Knowing Vollin to be an Edgar Allan Poe enthusiast, Jean surprises him by performing, upon his return to the stage, a solo dance set to a recitation of “The Raven.” Judge Thatcher suspects that Jean is falling in love with Vollin, so he visits the doctor to warn him to be careful not to lead her on. When it becomes clear that Vollin is already in love with Jean, the judge tells Vollin to stop seeing Jean so that she can marry Jerry, who is much closer to her own age. Vollin replies that his desire for Jean is distracting him from his important work, so Judge Thatcher has to “send her” to him, but the judge says he’s crazy and leaves.
A man comes to Vollin asking for a new face. Vollin recognizes the man as Edmond Bateman, a bank robber who is on the run after killing two guards while escaping from San Quentin, and says he will help in exchange for a favor that involves torture and murder. But Bateman replies that he no longer wishes to live a life of violence and only found himself on this path after being called ugly his entire life. Vollin agrees to improve Bateman’s appearance, but instead disfigures half of the man’s face by damaging his seventh cranial nerve, and Bateman reluctantly submits to Vollin so the doctor will reverse the procedure.
Against Judge Thatcher’s wishes, Jerry persuades Jean to accept an invitation to spend the weekend at Vollin’s house with other guests, so the judge attends as well. Everyone feels uncomfortable with Bateman, who is acting as Vollin’s butler, but Vollin says he was tortured by Arab bandits during the war, and Jean apologizes to him for being afraid of his appearance, unconsciously putting herself in the role of the disfigured criminal. The judge wants to leave because the guests are going to sleep, but Jerry and Joan laugh at his concerns about Vollin.
At eleven o’clock, Bateman takes Judge Thatcher from his room. Jerry hears the Judge’s muffled screams and tries to help, but Bateman knocks him out and brings the Judge to Vollin’s basement, where Vollin has built and collected various torture devices, including several inspired by Poe works such as “The Pit and the Pendulum.” The Judge is strapped to a slab as a blade that will take 15 minutes to reach him swings above, and Vollin flips a switch to lower Jean’s bedroom down to the basement. Regaining consciousness, Jerry tries to call the police, but Vollin disconnects the phones and drops steel shutters to trap everyone in the house. Vollin then leads Jerry to the basement and, at gunpoint, forces him and Jean into a room. When Bateman learns that, inside, the walls are closing in and that Jean will soon be crushed, he opens the door and Vollin shoots him as the pair escape. Bateman attacks Vollin, knocks him unconscious, and drags the doctor into the shrinking room, closes the door, and blasts the walls with the last of his strength. After Judge Thatcher is freed, the guests, grateful to Bateman for his sacrifice, all return home.