Season 2, Episode 19: null

The partners cannot convince a man (Boris Karloff) who has a missile-device formula to take death threats seriously. Guest starring: Boris Karloff, Carl Schell, Axel Darner, Mona Hamlin, Eduardo San Jose, Scott Miller -

Boris Karloff heads south of the border to Mexico for House of Evil, where he plays the patriarch of a dysfunctional family killed off one at a time by murderous toys! Karloff works the old pipe organ for all it's worth as the place burns to the ground. Rarely seen in the U.S., this is the only gothic horror Karloff appeared in among his four Mexican "epics."

Boris Karloff heads south of the border to Mexico for House of Evil, where he plays the patriarch of a dysfunctional family killed off one at a time by murderous toys! Karloff works the old pipe organ for all it's worth as the place burns to the ground. Rarely seen in the U.S., this is the only gothic horror Karloff appeared in among his four Mexican "epics."

Boris Karloff heads south of the border to Mexico for House of Evil, where he plays the patriarch of a dysfunctional family killed off one at a time by murderous toys!

No character in the history of film is more indelibly etched on the filmgoer's psyche than Boris Karloff's Frankenstein. The product of a scientific experiment gone amok, Frankenstein terrorized the populace on the screen and in the audience. Archival film clips show the stunning craftsmanship of Karloff, who created the character's frightening visage without the use of today's sophisticated special effects. The video goes behind the scenes to learn about the man behind the monster. The biography of a cultivated English gentleman emerges. This documentary looks at the long and versatile career of this star of radio, film, stage, and television. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide.

Warner Oland vs. Boris Karloff read the billing on the opening credits of Charlie Chan at the Opera. Karloff plays a once-famous opera star who has long been confined to an insane asylum. He escapes, ostensibly to seek revenge on the diva wife (Nedda Harrigan) who'd betrayed him years earlier. Karloff shows up during the performance of a new opera, and within minutes the murders start. Detective William Demarest figures the case is open and shut, but oriental sleuth Charlie Chan (Oland) is not thoroughly convinced of Karloff's guilt--nor is he certain that Boris is genuinely insane. To give away the ending would be churlish, but we can note that Charlotte Henry plays Karloff's daughter, who has been raised to believe that her father was dead. Considered by some Charlie Chan fans to be the best of the Warner Oland efforts, Charlie Chan at the Opera is distinguished by excellent production values, and by an original opera composed by Oscar Levant--who allegedly agreed to this assignment provided he could includ

In many ways the most endearing of Universal's B-grade monster rallies of the 1940s, House of Frankenstein manages within its 70-minute time span to make room for Frankenstein's monster (Glenn Strange), Dracula (John Carradine) the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.), and a couple of new recruits, mad scientist Boris Karloff and demented hunchback J. Carroll Naish. Escaping from prison, Karloff vows to continue his diabolical efforts to emulate Dr. Frankenstein's eternal life experiments; he also swears vengeance on the three men (Sig Ruman, Frank Reicher and Michael Mark) who were responsible for sending him to prison. With the help of fellow escapee Naish, Karloff murders a travelling-carnival impresario (George Zucco) and assumes his identity. He travels first to the village where Ruman is burgomaster. Since his carnival is a chamber of horrors, Karloff utilizes one of those horrors--Count Dracula--to settle his account with Ruman. Dracula does so, but dies when the first rays of sunlight stream across his body. En

The Climax was hurriedly and economically filmed on leftover sets from Universal's super-production The Phantom of the Opera. In his Technicolor debut, Boris Karloff plays Dr. Hohner, a brilliant but unstable theatrical physician who murders a beautiful opera star when she rejects him. Ten year later, a beautiful young opera singer named Angela (Susannah Foster) makes her debut at the Royal Opera House. Convinced that Angela is the reincarnation of his murdered sweetheart, Dr. Hohner fiendishly hypnotizes the girl so that she will be unable to sing. The spell is broken by the combined efforts of Angela's boyfriend Franz (Turhan Bey) and an opera-loving boy king (Scotty Beckett). As for Hohner, well, what usually happens to Boris Karloff in films of this nature? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.