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Frankenstein (1931)
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Director James Whale
Writer John L. Balderston, Mary Shelley, Peggy Webling
Cast Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff
Plot Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
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The Bride of Frankenstein aka Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
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Director James Whale
Writer Mary Shelley, William Hurlbut, John L. Balderston
Cast Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive
Plot Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
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Gaslight (1944)
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Director George Cukor
Writer John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston
Cast Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Plot Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wif...
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Dracula (1931)
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Director Tod Browning, Karl Freund
Writer Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston
Cast Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Plot Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
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The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
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Director Michael Mann
Writer James Fenimore Cooper, John L. Balderston, Paul Perez
Cast Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means
Plot Three Mohican trappers agree to protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
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The Mummy (1932)
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Director Karl Freund
Writer Nina Wilcox Putnam, Richard Schayer, John L. Balderston
Cast Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners
Plot A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
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Director John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke
Writer Anthony Hope, John L. Balderston, Edward E. Rose
Cast Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith
Plot An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.
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Dracula aka Dr cula (1931)
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Director George Melford
Writer Bram Stoker, Baltasar Ferna¡ndez Cue, John L. Balderston
Cast Carlos Villaraas, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton
Plot Centuries-old vampire Dracula preys upon the innocent Eva and her friends.
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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
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Director Henry Hathaway
Writer Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah
Cast Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell
Plot Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy - and themselves.
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Dracula's Daughter (1936)
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Director Lambert Hillyer
Writer Garrett Fort, John L. Balderston, Bram Stoker
Cast Otto Kruger, Gloria Holden, Marguerite Churchill
Plot When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur that lead Dr. Von Helsing to believe that the Countess must be a vampire.
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Mark of the Vampire (1935)
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Director Tod Browning
Writer Guy Endore, Bernard Schubert, John L. Balderston
Cast Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi
Plot When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.
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The Edge of the World (1937)
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Director Michael Powell
Writer Michael Powell, John L. Balderston, John Byrd
Cast Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie
Plot A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
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Director Richard Thorpe
Writer John L. Balderston, Noel Langley, Wells Root
Cast Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, James Mason
Plot An Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king, after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
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The Mummy's Hand (1940)
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Director Christy Cabanne
Writer Griffin Jay, Maxwell Shane, John L. Balderston
Cast Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford
Plot Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess.
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Dracula (1979)
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Director John Badham
Writer W.D. Richter, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston
Cast Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence
Plot In 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride.
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
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Director Rob Cohen
Writer Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, John L. Balderston
Cast Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello
Plot In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss aka The Amazing Adventure (1936)
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Director Alfred Zeisler
Writer E. Phillips Oppenheim, John L. Balderston
Cast Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne
Plot A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
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The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
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Director George B. Seitz
Writer James Fenimore Cooper, Philip Dunne, John L. Balderston
Cast Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon
Plot During the brutal French and Indian War, the legendary scout Hawkeye is prevailed upon to escort Major Duncan Heyward, and the two daughters of Fort William Henry commander Colonel Munro -- Alice and Cora -- to safety through.
