Product Details

• Actors: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Lionel Atwill
• Directors: Various
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Navarre Corporation
• DVD Release Date: April 8, 2008
• Run Time: 1040 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0012SATAK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #323,058 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Legends of Hollywood -Kings of Horror: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Flashy 5 DVD set of 13 Bela Lugosi and 4 Boris Karloff public-domain films, November 19, 2009

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Rudolf Schmid "nmnori" (Kensington, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Legends of Hollywood -Kings of Horror: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (DVD)

This DVD set is part of Brentwood/BCI's "Legends of Hollywood" series nicely presented in white cases bearing Al Hirschfeld artwork. The 5 double-sided DVDs contain 17 public-domain films, 13 for Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), 4 for Boris Karloff (1887-1969). The 14 B&W and 3 color public-domain films vary greatly in quality from mostly poor or fair to occasionally fairly decent (e.g., The human monster). Watching these films evokes childhood memories of viewing iffy technical-quality movies on TV during the 1950s and 1960s. The 17 films are (4:3, DD2.0/5.1, TT17:20):

DVD #/side

1B: Ape, The (AKA Gorilla) (1940) (Boris Karloff)

1A: Ape man, The (1943) (Bela Lugosi)

2A: Black dragons (1942) (Bela Lugosi)

3B: Boys from Brooklyn, The (AKA Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn gorilla) (1952) (Bela Lugosi)

5B: Corpse vanishes, The (AKA The case of the missing brides--UK) (1942) (Bela Lugosi)

3A: Death kiss, The (1932) (Bela Lugosi)

1B: Devil bat, The (1940) (Bela Lugosi)

1B: Dick Tracy meets Gruesome (1947) (Boris Karloff)

5A: Gorilla, The (1939) (Bela Lugosi)

2B: Human monster, The (US; AKA The dark eyes of London) (1940) (Bela Lugosi)

4B: Invisible ghost (1941) (Bela Lugosi)

1A: Mysterious Mr. Wong, The (1934) (Bela Lugosi)

--: Phantom creeps, The (AKA The shadow creeps) (1939 12-episode serial), episodes 3-6, 9-12 (Bela Lugosi) [DVD # = episode: 5A = 3, 5B = 4, 2A = 5, 2B = 6, 3A = 9, 10, 3B = 11, 12]

1A: Scared to death (1947) (Bela Lugosi) (color)

4A: Snake people (AKA Isle of the snake people--US) (1971) (Boris Karloff) (color)

1B: Terror, The (1964) (AKA The castle of Terror) (Boris Karloff) (color)

1A: White Zombie (1932) (Bela Lugosi)

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff appeared together in 8 films, but none of these are represented here.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars horrorble, October 22, 2011

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This review is from: Legends of Hollywood -Kings of Horror: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (DVD)

the picture and sound qualities of almost all the movies are bad; not worth buying at any price; retail stores will not pay more than $1 for it as a trade-in.