Main Details
- Released on July 8, 1935
- B&W
- Running time: 61 minutes
- Production and Distribution Co.: Universal Pictures
- Directed by Lew Landers
- Written by David Boehm (screenplay), Florence Enright (dialogue) (uncredited), Guy Endore, John Lynch, Clarence Marks, Dore Schary, Michael L. Simmons, Jim Tully (contributing writer) (uncredited), from Edgar Allan Poe's poem.
- Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews
Plot Summary
- Dr. Vollin is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher, a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident and becomes increasingly attracted to her.
Taglines
- The uncanny master of make-up in a new amazing thriller!
- The Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Show!
- POE'S WEIRDEST SHUDDER STORY COMES TO LIFE! (Print Ad- Leader-Post, ((Regina, Sask.)) 9 August 1935)
- While this mad surgical genius chanted "The Raven," horrible screams rose up from his torture chamber below!
