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El monstruo humano

Título original: The Dark Eyes of London
  • 1939
  • Approved
  • 1h 16min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
5.7/10
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El monstruo humano (1939)
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  • Dirección
    • Walter Summers
  • Guionistas
    • Edgar Wallace
    • Patrick Kirwan
    • Walter Summers
  • Elenco
    • Bela Lugosi
    • Hugh Williams
    • Greta Gynt
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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    • Dirección
      • Walter Summers
    • Guionistas
      • Edgar Wallace
      • Patrick Kirwan
      • Walter Summers
    • Elenco
      • Bela Lugosi
      • Hugh Williams
      • Greta Gynt
    • 55Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 33Opiniones de los críticos
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    Bela Lugosi
    Bela Lugosi
    • Dr. Feodor Orloff…
    Hugh Williams
    Hugh Williams
    • Det. Insp. Larry Holt
    Greta Gynt
    Greta Gynt
    • Diana Stuart
    Edmon Ryan
    Edmon Ryan
    • Lt. Patrick O'Reilly
    Wilfred Walter
    • Jake
    • (as Wilfrid Walter)
    Alexander Field
    • Fred Grogan
    O.B. Clarence
    O.B. Clarence
    • Prof. John Dearborn
    • (voz)
    • (sin créditos)
    May Hallatt
    May Hallatt
    • Police Constable Griggs
    • (sin créditos)
    Bryan Herbert
    • Police Sgt. Walsh
    • (sin créditos)
    Arthur E. Owen
    • Dumb Lou
    • (sin créditos)
    Charles Penrose
    • Morrison - Undercover Detective
    • (sin créditos)
    Gerald Pring
    • Henry Stuart
    • (sin créditos)
    Philip Stewart
    • Scotland Yard Detective
    • (sin créditos)
    George Street
    • Scotland Yard Commissioner
    • (sin créditos)
    Julie Suedo
    • Orloff's Secretary
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Walter Summers
    • Guionistas
      • Edgar Wallace
      • Patrick Kirwan
      • Walter Summers
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    Opiniones de usuarios55

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    9doc_hartman

    A great film and a must see for Lugosi fans!

    In my opinion, outside of "Dracula" and "White Zombie," this is Lugosi at his best. Dr. Orloff (Lugosi) is a philanthropist who donates his medical expertise to a work-house for blind men. On the side he runs an insurance scam by loaning money to desperate individuals and holds their life insurance policy as collateral, then he has them killed so he can collect on the policies. But that's just the plot. There is so much more happening.

    Lugosi is brilliant as the cold-hearted Dr. Orloff as he plays cat and mouse with the police and the daughter of one of his victims. He is able to move effortlessly from kind hearted doctor to calculating and greed driven murderer. The plot moves forward at a brisk pace with little down time and the build up to the climax was unexpected and absolutely chilling. Lugosi truly made me believe he was evil in this film and I quickly was involved with the plot. The supporting cast did exactly as they should; got out of the way and let Lugosi run with the film. See it. Buy it. Watch it.
    BaronBl00d

    A Sight to Behold

    Forget all those naysayers that talk about Bela Lugosi's inability to act, or that he was only good in Dracula and hammed it up in everything else, or that all his Poverty Row films are cheaply made, thin pieces of poor excuses for celluloid. The Human Monster, also known as Dark Eyes of London, is cheaply made and does star Bela, but it is a wonderful film. It tells the story of Bela the insurance broker who loans money to people and signs them up for an insurance policy, only later to kill them for the money. Bela uses a home for the blind as a cover-up for his operation. Lugosi is simply wonderful in his dual roles, and is as menacing as ever playing both the brokering fiend and the head of the Blind Home. This film is low on set and costume design, and has some pretty average performers, but make no mistake that it is an average horror thriller. It simply is a sight to behold!
    8TheGeezer

    Chilling!

    Instead of repeating all the details others have, I'll just say the film really gave me the creeps the first time I saw it. Sometimes when you see an old movie like this from the 20s or 30s, it's tempting to think nothing in it can shock you, because movies are not as "sophisticated" as the things you see today. I saw it on television many years back, way before home video, and was delighted to find it in a grocery store's previously viewed tape bin. It hasn't lost any of it's punch. To see how cruelly Lugosi dealt with his very helpless victims chilled me to the bone. The Uday of his time. It has a Hitchcock-type of human horror that is more effective than any rubber suited monster. Not too badly paced, and is still one I get out when in the mood for something dark.
    7Mike-764

    Enjoyable Lugosi flick.

    Dr. Orloff has been endowing funds to the Dearborn Institute for the Blind, but is using the institute as a home for his sinister activities. Orloff has been ordering the murders of a series of men who have named Orloff as their insurance beneficiary, as collateral for a monetary loan. Scotland Yard Inspector Holt, also teaming up with Lt. O'Reilly (from Chicago) and Diana Stuart, daughter of the latest murder victim, try to uncover the connection of Orloff, the Dearborn Institute, and the murdered men. I enjoyed this movie more than I expected I would. Lugosi gives a very good performance, and the movie has a good aura of mystery about it which only enhance the audience's attention, despite the film's modest small budget. Rating, 7.
    7planktonrules

    Far from brilliant, but very high on the "creepy factor"

    Bela Lugosi made a lot of schlocky films during his career. While DARK EYES OF London is definitely a low budget film, thanks to decent writing and a very creepy style it manages to entertain even after almost 70 years.

    Bela plays a totally amoral criminal who runs an insurance company. He insures people and makes himself the beneficiary after making these people loans. But instead of waiting to collect the money, he drowns them and throws their body in the Thames. While an interesting scheme, he oddly does it repeatedly--naturally arousing the suspicions of the police.

    In addition to being an insurance man, Lugosi also is a benefactor to a home for indigent blind men. However, this act of kindness is a front, as this home is where Bela commits his murders with the help of a truly horrifying looking blind assistant. Near the very end, you actually get to see him kill one of his innocent victims and toss him in the river in a very graphic way--hence deservedly earning its special horror rating in the UK.

    The film earns some points for an unusual plot and its graphic scenes--it really is a pretty scary film for 1940. However, there are a few lulls, some overacting by the idiot playing the cop from Chicago and the irrationality of Lugosi committing so many murders yet hoping to get away with it when he's the only rational suspect. By the way, speaking of the Chicago cop, do all Brits see us Americans as THAT brash and annoying?! I sure hope not! You also wonder why they even bothered including this character, as he was rather distracting and unnecessary.

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    • Trivia
      The first British horror movie to be rated 'H' for horrific, which was brought in by the British Board of Film Censors in 1933 for films that were deemed too horrific for children under 16 to see after the early '30s Universal horrors shocked audiences.
    • Errores
      The Chicago policeman visiting Scotland Yard is armed and fires shots at a suspect in a London street. British police are not armed and it would not have been permitted for an American to behave in this way.
    • Citas

      Diana Stuart: I can't! I daren't!

      Det. Insp. Larry Holt: You'll dare. I've got to have sufficient proof that Dr. Orloff is a murderer and your father was his last victim.

    • Versiones alternativas
      When re-released theatrically in the UK in 1949, the BBFC made cuts to secure a 'A' rating. All cuts were waived in 1953 when the film was re-released theatrically with a 'X' certificate and later in 1993 when released with a 'PG' certificate for home video.
    • Conexiones
      Featured in Creature Features: Horror Hotel (1971)

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      • 11 de octubre de 1941 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Reino Unido
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      • The Human Monster
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Welwyn Studios, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(Studio)
    • Productora
      • John Argyle Productions
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      • 1h 16min(76 min)
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      • Black and White
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      • 1.37 : 1

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