posted on: October 19, 2020
The remaining roles are likewise very basic in nature, though the supporting cast members elevate them nicely with their appeal. [1], Gayne Whitman played the lead role of American-born Frank Chandler, who had learned occult secrets from a yogi in India. In recent years there’s been a reappraisal, aided by a DVD release in 2008 as part of the box set Fox Horror Classics Vol. Edmund Lowe as the titular Yogi is dull, but Bella Lugosi his nemesis with the deathray has a ball. a good remaster and a fun old movie for a rainy afternoon, Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2016. Although Edmund Lowe is Chandu, Bela steals the show as the villain of the piece. With Edmund Lowe, Irene Ware, Bela Lugosi, Herbert Mundin. 2. Excellent image quality. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. To pass his finals, he first levitates a rope, which one of the other yogis climbs into another dimension – the rope follows. Atmosphere transcends logic; Mr. Lugosi’s pronouncements notwithstanding, music is more important than dialogue. Menzies is joined by his French co-director Marcel Varnel, whose specialty was comedy; Varnel was given most of the dialogue scenes, which are the weaker parts of the film. In game music can get a bit repetitive, so I started listening to these quaint old broadcast streams. In the early 30’s, white audience members could become lost in the fantasy of traveling to the far East and uncovering occult mystery because the exotic Orient – in this case, India – seemed like an impossibly distant place and a mysterious one. However, the fiend didn’t count on the newly-minted Chandu to jump into action and call upon his powers of illusion to save not only his loved ones from certain doom but the very earth, as well. ), Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2017. An ambitious young reporter (John McGuire) stumbles across one murder, his testimony dooming a hapless ex-convict (Elisha Cook Jr., the quintessential desperate little man) and is subsequently accused himself of another killing. It influenced the original “Night of the Living Dead” and anticipated much of David Lynch’s work. [4], In 1935, the production moved to WGN Chicago with a new cast, including Howard Hoffman in the title role and Cornelia Osgood as Dorothy. A madman named Roxor (Bela Lugosi) has kidnapped Frank’s brother-in-law Robert (Henry B. Walthall), seeking to use his latest invention to destroy the cities of the globe and declare himself emperor. It’s easier to appreciate these naïve genre clichés when watching Chandu, because at the time the concepts were still somewhat fresh. Chandu's miraculous magical feats keeps him one step ahead of Roxor, but he falls prey to Roxor when the villain snatches Chandu's sweetheart, Princess Nadji. Pulp and Poetry: ‘Chandu the Magician’ and ‘Stranger on the Third Floor’. Found the comedic subplot to be a bit grating at moments but that climax, full of Lugosi doing his thing, largely makes up for any soft spots earlier on. I can even tolerate a bad…. “Stranger” is as experimental as any movie made in Hollywood between F. W. Murnau’s silent “Sunrise” (1927) and “Citizen Kane,” which, released a year later than “Stranger,” was also produced by RKO. “Stranger” was the first feature directed by Boris Ingster, a former associate of Sergei Eisenstein (and later a producer on the 1960s spy series “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”), from a screenplay by the Hungarian writer Frank Partos that is thought to have been reworked by the novelist Nathanael West, who was killed in a car crash several months after the movie opened. Can Chandu stop him with his mind controlling powers??!!! Some of the visual effects are quite stunning for 1932. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Strange, a contemporary of Mandrake the Magician and The Shadow. Edmund Lowe as the master of illusion! Bela Lugosi creates a powerful aura of menace and mystery as the palindromic mad scientist, Roxor, and Edmund Lowe's Chandu assays the role of the jovial square-jawed hero with aplomb. A glamorous princess (Irene Ware) is on hand as rescue bait, but the most glorious attraction is Mr. Lugosi, resplendent in black tights and a matching turban. “Chandu the Magician” (1932), adapted from a popular nightly radio broadcast of the same name, is one such film. It still looks its age; it’s a scratchy old film (as my screenshots from the Blu-Ray attest), but with its lovingly rendered film grain comes the warmth of yesteryear matinee thrills, a rollercoaster ride chock full of inventive special effects and nonstop boyhood imagination. […] camera movements, make Chandu the Magician a very entertaining watch”. Bolstered by its wonderful visual effects and spirited acting, the film hasn’t a doubt in its mind that viewers will fall briskly under its spell. Edmund Lowe Irene Ware Bela Lugosi Herbert Mundin Henry B. Walthall Weldon Heyburn June Lang Michael Stuart Virginia Hammond Nigel De Brulier John George Constantine Romanoff, R. H. Bassett Louis De Francesco Peter Brunelli Glen Knight, adventure action science fiction fantasy horror thriller, 71 mins Do you participate in the Daily Horror Hunt? WC Menzies (THINGS TO COME, INVADERS FROM MARS, THIEF OF BAGDAD) brings us a Saturday-morning serial-style quickie about a Doctor Strange-esque magician (apparently Chandu was Stan Lee's inspiration for the character) and his Indiana Jones-esque mission to keep scenery-gnawing supervillain Bela Lugosi (only one year out from DRACULA) from ruling the planet with a death ray. Even superhero-magician hybrids, from Chandu the Magician to Doctor Strange, while being adapted from their sources into decent flicks, didn’t enjoy great success. ( lmfaoooo what is going on in this movie bela lugosi is daddie ). What kind of opium haze was this thing conceived in? [1] With Howard Culver as the announcer and music by organist Korla Pandit, that series continued until January 28, 1949. Strange really doesn’t fit the bill for this blog. Directed by William Cameron Menzies (who doubtless helped with the surprisingly impressive visuals) and Marcel Varnel (who directed most of the best British comedies in the thirties.) If modern audiences were to put their various biases of older films aside, I believe this well made and exciting adventure yarn would appeal to them. It aired in the 1930s. There's a problem loading this menu right now. This restored version is available on Blu-ray, DVD and Amazon Video. ( Log Out / The 1930’s were full of Chandus, but the modern viewer might be relieved to know that Chandu the Magician doesn’t contain the kind of overt racism of many of its contemporaries. The last broadcast was September 6, 1950.[1]. Chandu – pronounced “Shandu” – was a master of the mystic arts long before Dr. 1932 There seems to be some debate over the original order of the broadcasted stories. A.J. Wonderful old movie. On February 26, 1934, the "Looking Back" column in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner noted: "Radio fans who have been enjoying the Chandu the Magician broadcasts, which have been sponsored by the National Grocery and Reliance Coffee, will be happy to know that the program has been made into a talking picture. There is also a featurette on Chandu, the character, how he was created and how he influenced future magician oriented films up to the present day. CHANDU.. With such an occult hero, “Chandu the Magician” anticipates “Doctor Strange,” the coming movie based on the Marvel character.
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