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The Raven

The uncanny master of make-up in a new amazing shocker!

6.6(160)19351h 1m5

A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.

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Status
Released
Budget
$115K
Box office
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Language
English
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Behind the camera

Director

Lew Landers

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical8 Jul 1935
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical19 Jun 1936
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical21 Jan 1937
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical8 Nov 1935
  • GermanyDE

    • TVTV-Premiere29 Mar 1937
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/145 Oct 1938

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The Raven was released on 8 July 1935.

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    tmdb28039023

    9/3/2022

    3/10

    The Raven succeeded in 1935 where Roger Corman and Vincent Price failed 28 years later. The 1963 version of The Raven was written by Richard Matheson, who is quoted by Wikipedia as saying, "After hearing that they wanted to make a movie out of a poem, I felt it was a total joke, so comedy was the only way to do it." Matheson's mistake was precisely that he approached the material lightly, though; it's because Rave…

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