The Raven (1935 film)

The Raven is a 1935 film about a brilliant surgeon obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe who saves the life of a beautiful dancer and goes mad when he can't have her.
 * ''Directed by Lew Landers. Written by David Boehm.

While this mad surgical genius chanted "The Raven", horrible screams rose up from his torture chamber below! (taglines)

Dr. Richard Vollin

 * Your monstrous ugliness breeds monstrous hatred. Good! I can use your hate.
 * Torture waiting... waiting. It will be sweet, Judge Thatcher!
 * Poe, you are avenged!
 * I am the sanest man who ever lived!
 * Jean torments me. She has come into my life! Into my brain!

Jean Thatcher

 * Oh, Daddy! He's not going to cut our throats while we sleep!

Dialogue

 * Judge Thatcher: I'll pay you any amount of money, Dr. Vollin.
 * Dr. Richard Vollin: Money means nothing to me.
 * Judge Thatcher: But someone is dying! your obligation as a member of the medical profession...
 * Dr. Richard Vollin: I respect no obligation. I am a law unto himself!
 * Judge Thatcher: But you have no human feeling? My daughter is dying!
 * Dr. Richard Vollin: Death hasn't the same significance for me as it has for you.

Taglines

 * The uncanny master of make-up in a new amazing shocker!
 * The uncanny master of make-up in a new amazing thriller!
 * The Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Show!
 * While this mad surgical genius chanted "The Raven", horrible screams rose up from his torture chamber below!

Cast

 * Boris Karloff — Edmond Bateman
 * Bela Lugosi — Dr. Richard Vollin
 * Lester Matthews — Jerry Halden
 * Irene Ware — Jean Thatcher