General Nikolas Pherides
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Isle of the Dead is a 1945 American horror film directed by Mark Robson and made for RKO Radio Pictures by producer Val Lewton. The film's script was inspired by the painting Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, which appears behind the title credits, though the film was originally titled Camilla during production.
May 10, 2021 · On a lonely Greek island, a disparate group of people are in fear. Plague has come to the island making them virtual prisoners and then there is talk of the vorvolakas, a vampire-like creature that preys on the living.
- 72 min
Isle of the Dead: Directed by Mark Robson. With Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery. On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague.
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- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Mark Robson
- 1945-09-01
Isle of the Dead (1945) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #IsleoftheDead Once you visit the Isle of the Dead, there’s no hope of returning to the land of the living. A small island off the coast...
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- 4.8K
- Warner Archive
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- Mark Robson
- 71 min
- 10
In 1912, during the First Balkan War, the cruel, heartless and superstitious Greek General Nikolas Pherides rows a boat to a small island with the American Boston Star journalist Oliver Davis to visit his wife's grave. They find it destroyed and the body missing and they overhear a woman singing.
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A classic horror film directed by Mark Robson and starring Boris Karloff as a general who investigates a vampire outbreak on a Balkans island. Watch the trailer, scene stills and read the synopsis, cast and crew, and trivia of this RKO Radio Pictures production.
