Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.
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Boris Karloff
Self (archive footage)
Sara Karloff
Self
Guillermo del Toro
Self
Ron Perlman
Self
Stefanie Powers
Self
Christopher Plummer
Self
Peter Bogdanovich
Self
Lee Grant
Self
Joe Dante
Self
Roger Corman
Self
Norman Jewison
Self
David J. Skal
Self
Gregory W. Mank
Self
John Landis
Self
Ian Ogilvy
Self
Dick Miller
Self
Orson Bean
Self
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