Island of Lost Souls (DVD & Blu-Ray) ( The Island of Dr. Moreau / Blood Sucker ) ( Forced to Sin )

Island of Lost Souls (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: The Island of Dr. Moreau / Blood Sucker
Alternate Title: Forced to Sin
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
71 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Uncut
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1932 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Erle C. Kenton
Frank R. Strayer

Written By:
H.G. Wells
Waldemar Young

Actors:
Charles Laughton ..... Dr. Moreau
Richard Arlen ..... Edward Parker
Leila Hyams ..... Ruth Thomas
Bela Lugosi ..... Sayer of the Law
Kathleen Burke ..... Lota the Panther Woman
Arthur Hohl ..... Mr. Montgomery
Stanley Fields ..... Captain Davies
Paul Hurst ..... Captain Donahue
Hans Steinke ..... Ouran
Tetsu Komai ..... M'ling
George Irving ..... American Consul
Lionel Atwill ..... Dr. Otto von Niemann
Fay Wray ..... Ruth Bertin
Melvyn Douglas ..... Karl Brettschneider
Maude Eburne ..... Aunt Gussie Schnappmann
George E. Stone ..... Kringen
Dwight Frye ..... Herman Gleib
Robert Frazer ..... Emil Borst
Rita Carlyle ..... Martha Mueller (as Rita Carlisle)
Lionel Belmore ..... Bürgermeister Gustave Schoen
William V. Mong ..... Sauer
Stella Adams ..... Georgiana
Harrison Greene ..... Weingarten

Synopsis:

This first film version of H.G. Wells' Island of Dr. Moreau stars Charles Laughton as Dr.Moreau, a dedicated but sadly misguided scientist who rules the roost on a remote island. Shipwrecked sailor Edward Parker Richard Arlen finds himself on Moreau's island, agreeing to stick around until another boat can come along and take him home. But that's not quite what Moreau has in mind: he'd rather Parker stay on the island and marry the exotic Lota (Kathleen Burke), who curiously possesses the characteristics of the panther. In fact, all the island's natives seem more animal than human, especially the hirsute Bela Lugosi. And why not? They are animals who've been transformed by Moreau into humanlike creatures via surgery. Moreau's plans to mate Parker and Lota are complicated by the arrival of Parker's fiancee Leila Hyams, who has been brought to the island by ship's captain Stanley Fields, one of Moreau's flunkies. When Moreau kills Fields for this insubordination, he makes the mistake of breaking one of the rules he himself has imposed on the island: That no creature shall kill another. Island of Lost Souls does its job of inducing goosebumps so well that one can forgive the cherubic excesses of Charles Laughton in his portrayal of Dr. Moreau. The film would be remade under Wells' original title in 1978, with Burt Lancaster in the Laughton role.

Originally rejected by the BBFC on its original release for being "against nature", this first and best screen adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau is a taboo-flaunting, blood-curdling spectacular, and one of Hollywood's wildest, most notorious, pre-Code pictures. Shipwrecked and adrift, Edward Parker finds himself a guest on Dr. Moreau's isolated South Seas island, but quickly discovers the horrifying nature of the doctor's work and the origin of the strange forms inhabiting the isle: a colony of wild animals reworked into humanoid form via sadistic surgical experiments. Furthermore, Parker quickly begins to fear his own part in the doctor's plans to take the unholy enterprise to a next level. Featuring a peerlessly erudite and sinister performance by Charles Laughton as the diabolical doctor, a sterling appearance by Bela Lugosi as the half-beast-half-man "Sayer of the Law", and sensationally atmospheric cinematography by the great Karl Struss (Murnau's Sunrise, Mamoulian's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Island of Lost Souls now returns to claim a central position among the most imaginative and nightmarish fantasies from Hollywood's golden age of horror.

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 29 July, 2012.