The Boris Karloff Collection - The Black Castle (1952) DVD5 [DDR]

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The Boris Karloff Collection - The Black Castle (1952) DVD5 [DDR]

The Black Castle is a mystery film, released by Universal Pictures in 1952.
It was produced by William Alland, who would have better success two years later with Creature from the Black Lagoon.
The film was made in the United States but premiered in Sweden

CAST:-
Richard Greene - Sir Ronald Burton
Stephen McNally - Count Carl von Bruno
Rita Corday - Countess Elga von Bruno
John Hoyt - Count Steiken
Michael Pate - Count Ernst von Melcher
Boris Karloff - Dr. Meissen
Lon Chaney, Jr. -Gargon
Nancy Valentine - Therese von Wilk
Tudor Owen - Romley
Henry Corden - Fender
Otto Waldis - Krantz the Innkeeper

Directed by Nathan H. Juran
Produced by William Alland
Written by Jerry Sackheim

SYNOPSIS:- The Black Castle (1952)
Sir Ronald Burton (Greene), a British gentleman, investigates the disappearance of two friends at the Austrian estate of the sinister Count von Bruno (McNally). Von Bruno secretly seeks revenge against the leaders of a British force that set the natives against him in colonial Africa: Burton's missing friends are among his victims, and Burton is now also in the trap. Burton plans to escape with von Bruno's abused Countess, but the Count's henchmen bar the way.

Boris Karloff returns to his old Universal stamping grounds in the mild horror item Black Castle. The plot is motivated by a brace of 18th-century aristocrats, Beckett (Richard Greene) and Count Von Bruno (Stephen McNally). Invited to visit Von Bruno's castle in Austria, Beckett accepts, hoping in this way to prove that the count is responsible for the deaths of two of his friends. The sadistic Von Bruno toys with his guest, intending to subject Beckett to a horrible demise at the first opportunity. When Beckett meets the Count's reluctant bride Elga (Paula Corday), he vows to free her from the accursed castle. Karloff has a smallish role as the Count's humanitarian physician, while his fellow horror-star Lon Chaney Jr. does his usual as a mute but deadly manservant.



TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4999 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 23.976
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages:English
RunTime 82 mins
Subtitles: English, Francais
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 82 mins