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1. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1965)
directed by Chuck Jones
featuring Boris Karloff
Chuck Jones' animated version of the classic Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas originally aired on television in 1966 and has since ... More
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2. Isle of the Snake People (1971)
directed by Jack Hill, Juan Ibañez, Luis Enrique Vergara, Robert O'Neil
featuring Boris Karloff
The inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah for years, but the local ... More
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3. Jack the Ripper (1958)
directed by David MacDonald
featuring Boris Karloff
Four terrifying stories from The Veil television series are introduced by Boris Karloff with titles "Summer Heat," "Vision of Crime," "Food on the ... More
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4. Fear Chamber (1968)
directed by Jack Hill, Juan Ibañez
featuring Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East, Isela Vega
A brilliant geologist sends a team to search the depths of the earth in an effort to learn the origin of some strange signals they've been picking up ... More
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5. The Emperor and the Nightingale (1948)
directed by Jirí Trnka
featuring Boris Karloff, Jaromir Sobota, Helena Patockova
The Emperor's Nightingale relates the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale through utilization of stop-motion puppet animation. The film was produced ... More
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6. Scarface (1932)
directed by Howard Hawks
featuring Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, George Raft, Boris Karloff
Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail's novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great talkie gangster flicks, but ... More
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7. Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
directed by William Nigh
featuring Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Evelyn Brent, Maxine Jennings, Lucien Prival
The first of six Mr. Wong whodunits, Mr. Wong Detective presented Boris Karloff as pulp writer Hugh Wiley's Oxford-educated Oriental sleuth. Wong is ... More
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8. The Old Dark House (1932)
directed by James Whale
featuring Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart, Lillian Bond
It's a wildly varied group that takes shelter from a raging English storm in the forbidding mansion of the Femm family. Among the reluctant guests ... More
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9. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
directed by Norman Z. McLeod
featuring Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter, Ann Rutherford
James Thurber wasn't too happy with the Sam Goldwyn film adaptation of his 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but the Technicolor ... More
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10. Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
directed by Charles Barton
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Lenore Aubert, Gar Moore
This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly evenly divided between Bud ... More
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11. Doomed to Die (1940)
directed by William Nigh
featuring Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds, Melvin Lang, Guy Usher
In his final "Mr. Wong" mystery, Boris Karloff solves the case of who killed shipping magnate Cyrus P. Wentworth (Melvin Lang). Wentworth's flagship ... More
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12. British Intelligence (1940)
directed by Terrell O. Morse
featuring Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Maris Wrixon, Leonard Mudie
Though set during WW1, British Intelligence was obviously thrown together to capitalize on the outbreak of WW2. A remake of the 1930 espionager Three ... More
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13. The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)
directed by William Nigh
featuring Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Dorothy Tree, Lotus Long, Morgan Wallace
The second film in the mystery series about a Chinese sleuth, this one concerns the theft of the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," the largest star ... More
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14. The Fatal Hour (1940)
directed by William Nigh
featuring Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Marjorie Reynolds, Charles Trowbridge, John Hamilton
The Fatal Hour was the fourth entry in Monogram's "Mr. Wong" series, based on the gentlemanly oriental detective created by Hugh Wiley. Boris Karloff ... More
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15. Juggernaut (1936)
directed by Henry Edwards
featuring Boris Karloff, Joan Wyndham, Arthur Margetson, Mona Goya, Anthony Ireland
This British programmer tells the dark, thrilling tale of a research scientist who resorts to murder to ensure continued funding for his experiments. ... More
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16. Sabaka (1953)
directed by Frank Ferrin
featuring Boris Karloff, Lou Krugman, Reginald Denny, June Foray
Filmed on location in India, The Hindu is an outgrowth of the "Gunga Ram" episodes originally seen on TV's Smilin' Ed's Gang (later known as Andy's ... More
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17. The Terror (1963)
directed by Roger Corman
featuring Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Dorothy Neumann
In this horror chiller, an intriguing, beautiful woman (Sandra Knight) keeps re-appearing to early 19th-century Lt. Duvalier (Jack Nicholson), and he ... More
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18. Son of Frankenstein (1939)
directed by Rowland V. Lee
featuring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson
The most elaborate--and longest--of Universal's Frankenstein series, Son of Frankenstein represents Boris Karloff's last appearance in the role of ... More
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19. The Ghoul (1933)
directed by T. Hayes Hunter
featuring Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernst Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson, Anthony Bushell
The Ghoul was Boris Karloff's first British horror film. Karloff is cast as Egyptologist Professor Morant, who on his deathbed insists that he be ... More
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20. The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
directed by Robert Stevenson
featuring Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop
Attractive scientist Dr. Clare Wyatt (Anna Lee) fondly declines the proposal of journalist Dick Haslewood (John Loder), who loves her, and she goes ... More
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21. Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott
This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters. In this case, Slim (Bud ... More
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22. A Connecticut Yankee (1955)
directed by Max Liebman
featuring Eddie Albert, Janet Blair, Boris Karloff, Gale Sherwood, John Conte
As originally broadcast on March 12, 1955, and directed by Max Liebman (Ten from Your Show of Shows), this feature-length production brings Richard ... More
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23. Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
featuring Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry, Thomas Beck
"Warner Oland vs. Boris Karloff" read the billing on the opening credits of Charlie Chan at the Opera. Karloff plays a once-famous opera star who has ... More
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24. The Climax (1944)
directed by George Waggner
featuring Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard, Thomas Gomez
The Climax was hurriedly and economically filmed on leftover sets from Universal's super-production The Phantom of the Opera. In his Technicolor ... More
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25. The Strange Door (1951)
directed by Joseph Pevney
featuring Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Richard Stapley, Michael Pate
Reunited for the first time since 1932's The Old Dark House, Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff star in the second-echelon Universal melodrama The ... More
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