Top cast:Lily Dampier,Raymond Longford,Lottie Lyell
Director:Martha Coolidge
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Canada
Year:1999
Storyline:A memorable lamenting saxophone score by Bernard Herrmann (his last) accompanies the film.[Note: He provided some of cinema""s best-known musical accompaniments, for such films as Alfred Hitchcock""s well-knownVertigo (1958),North by Northwest (1959),andPsycho (1960), and for Orson Welles""Citizen Kane (1941)andThe Magnificent Ambersons (1942).The local ferry arrived carrying sexy, earthy, wise-cracking prostitute-on-the-run Vantine Jefferson (Jean Harlow), who had been invited back to Denny""s plantation for shelter by Denny""s incompetent and drunken overseer Guidon (Donald Crisp).The Fairbanks and the Gilberts, he Valentinos! And who have we got now? Some nobodies.Joe doesn""t want to take the blame: "Don""t blame me.I""m not an executive.Just a writer." Norma criticizes Joe as a screenwriter as well as any others responsible for bringing words and sound to the movies: "You are.At the end of a hallway in a dark surgical theatre, Dr.Matthew Logan (Richard Liberty), known as "Frankenstein," worked on captured zombie specimens, recording his findings and conducting surgical and neurological operations on the ghouls to remove their internal organs.