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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 to be 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 of 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 who 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, who now only conducts research, comes out of retirement and performs a delicate operation on his 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 carry out the operation successfully, Vollin's vanity persuades him to help.
A month after the operation, Jean recovered and Vollin became obsessed with her. She is grateful to Vollin for curing her, as well as for making Jerry her assistant, but when Vollin tells her during a checkup in his salon that he hired Jerry "to give her something to replace this that he loses,” she avoids his embrace and gives an excuse as to why she has to leave.
Knowing Vollin as an Edgar Allan Poe enthusiast, Jean surprised him by performing, on 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 tell 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 not to see Jean again so she can marry Jerry, who is much closer to her age. Vollin responds that his desire for Jean is distracting him from his important work, so Judge Thatcher must "send it" to him, but the judge says he is crazy and leaves.
A man comes to Vollin to ask 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 responds 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 in order to have the doctor 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 acts as Vollin's butler, but Vollin says he was tortured by Arab bandits during the war, and Jean apologizes to him for having was afraid of his appearance, unconsciously putting himself at 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 cellar, where Vollin has built and collected various torture devices, including several inspired by works of Poe such as " The pit and the pendulum". The judge is tied to a slab as a blade that will take 15 minutes to reach swings above, and Vollin flips a switch to lower Jean's room down to the cellar.
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 cellar and, at gunpoint, forces him and Jean into a room. When Bateman learns that inside the walls are closing and Jean will soon be crushed, he opens the door and Vollin shoots him as the pair escape. Bateman tackles Vollin, knocking him out and dragging the doctor into the shrinking room, closing the door and blasting the walls with the last of his strength. After Judge Thatcher is released, the guests, grateful to Bateman for his sacrifice, all return home.
