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Lobby Card, Isle of the Dead
is a 1945 American horror film directed by Mark Robson and produced by Val Lewton.
Plot Summary
Set in Greece during the 1912 Balkan War, the film follows a Greek general, Nikolas Pherides (Boris Karloff), who visits a small island to pay his respects at his wife's grave. He finds the island is not uninhabited as he thought, and soon a plague breaks out, forcing him and the other residents to quarantine. The isolated group is faced with a psychological conflict between rational science and local superstitions about a mythical vampire-like demon known as a "vorvolaka". As the plague takes its toll, the general begins to believe the claims of a superstitious housekeeper (Helene Thimig) that a young woman (Ellen Drew) is the vorvolaka, leading to paranoia and a tense climax.
Cast
Boris Karloff as General Nikolas Pherides
Ellen Drew as Thea
Marc Cramer as Oliver Davis
Katherine Emery as Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn
Helene Thimig as Madame Kyra
Alan Napier as St. Aubyn |
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