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Date Posted: 08:54:03 09/29/09 Tue
Author: DAN
Subject: Behind The Mask on TCM

"Behind the Mask" from Columbia, with Boris Karloff and Edward Van Sloan is scheduled to air on TCM Friday Oct. 30 at 6 AM EST.

I first saw "Behind the Mask" back in the early sixties, and I was disappointed with it then because it was listed as horror. And with Boris Karloff and Edward Van Sloan in the cast, I figured it would be a good horror film.

I was an 8 year old kid when the Shock Theater package made it to TV in the fall of 1957, and that is when I first seen the Universal classic horror films.

Before Shock Theater, the only two monster films I saw was "King Kong" and "Unknown Island" on TV in 1956.

I loved anything with monsters... Dracula, Frankenstein's creature, werewolves, Mummies, assorted apes, electric men, etc. I didn't care for the movies that were just mysteries with no real monsters, like The Blue room films for example. But as I got older, I took a closer look at these films and could enjoy them on there own merits.

Anyway, I've read many good reviews on "behind the Mask" since I first saw it, and it sounds like a good crime drama, with maybe a little Sci-Fi thrown in.

Well I don't remember too much about the film myself, so I can't really give my own opinion and say how good or bad it may be?

But I'm going to watch and record it never the less.

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[> Re: Behind The Mask on TCM -- Tim, 11:21:09 09/29/09 Tue [1]

The original release of the Shock Theater package was a little before my time. I think I saw my first horror films on television around 1963 at the age of six. I saw most the Universal classics in the 1960s, although as a kid I doubt if I knew the difference between Universal and other studios like RKO and Columbia. But I knew some movies were better than others, and those Karloff and Lugosi Universals were good! In the late 1960s I discovered Famous Monsters of Filmland and became a real monster fan.

As I grew older I became more discerning and began to learn about the various actors, directors and studios, and my interests broadened to encompass things like the Alfred Hitchcock pictures and the film noir detective flicks of the 1940s.

Behind the Mask remains one of the early Karloff films that I have not seen, to the best of my recollection. Karloff was a versatile actor, and gave excellent portrayals in non-horror pictures like Graft (1931), Scarface (1932) and The Lost Patrol (1934).

Tim


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