Island of Lost Souls

[Quigley Brown]

Did anyone else catch Island of Lost Souls (1933) on TCM Friday night? I was pleasantly surprised! It's the original Island of Dr. Moreau. The print was flawless....no scratches or dust. The creature costumes and make-up were incredible. It was one heck of a spooky movie! It's too bad it's not out on DVD.

 

[MK]

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I have seen it. It is a stronger movie than it's remakes. There is some crazy footage in there. A lot of old time make-up artists worked on it. There were given almost free reign to create the wildest make-up they could by whay we call "out-of-the-case", meaning nothing premade. There were no molded appliances like today. They just went for it.

 

[Sefton]

Good grief!:eusa_doh: If I had known that was on I would have recorded it. It's one of my favorite 30s films! Ah,well...I've noticed that sometimes when these rare films are shown on TCM they soon afterwards make their debut on DVD.

Laughton is terrific as usual and Lugosi as the sayer of the law has one of his best parts although it's quite a brief one.

 

[TM]

Are we not men?

Tony

 

[Feraud]

I am sorry to have missed it. This movie creeped me out as a child!

 

[DanielJones]

Sorry I missed that one. Bummer. I'm quite sure that it will play on TCM again soon though.

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Twitch]

I love when they refurbish the old prints to new and clean status!

 

[carebear]

Are we not men?

Tony

We are DEVO.