Friday, June 13, 2014
Isle of the Dead (1945)
ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer,
Katherine Emery, Helene Thimig, Jason Robards
A shadowy Val Lewton thriller about some people quarantined on a Greek island during a plague. One of them could be possessed by en evil spirit, and it's probably not who you think. Moody lighting out of film noir and old German silents, and a good, moody performance by Karloff (looking vaguely like Kurt Vonnegut) as the army general who insists that nobody leave the island.