Unheimliche Geschichten
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| Unheimliche Geschichten | |
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 Film poster 1932 version |
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| Directed by | Richard Oswald |
| Produced by | Gabriel Pascal |
| Written by | Heinz Goldberg, Richard Oswald |
| Starring | Paul Wegener, Harald Paulsen, Roma Bahn, Mary Parker, Gerhard Bienert |
| Distributed by | J.H. Hoffberg Company Inc. |
| Release date(s) | 1932 |
| Running time | 89 min. |
| Language | German |
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Unheimliche Geschichten is a German horror anthology film produced as a silent film in 1919 and remade as a sound film in 1932.
The 1919 silent version was produced and directed by the prolific Richard Oswald. The 1932 talkie version starring Paul Wegener was again directed by Oswald, but produced by the more competant Gabriel Pascal, and is considered by some to be a forgotten classic.
The 1932 film is also known by numerous other titles including Fünf unheimliche Geschichten (Germany), Five Sinister Stories (International: English title), Ghastly Tales (USA), Tales of the Uncanny, The Living Dead (USA), and Unholy Tales (International: English title). [1]
The story is based on a book anthology by the same name that includes macabre short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson. The 1932 version includes The Black Cat, Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather, and The Suicide Club. [2] [3] A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees as a reporter sets out to track him down. The story is held together by the devise of a black cat that continues throughout, a plot devise that was resurrected in Stephen King's anthology horror film Cat's Eye in 1985.
