Sunday, 18 September 2016

59 Dark Eyes of London ( 1939 )


Bela  Lugosi  came  over  to  the  UK  to  play  a  dual  role  in  this  Edgar  Wallace  adaptation. He  plays  Dr  Orloff  who  is  running   a  murderous  insurance  scam  with  a  Home  for  the  Blind  as  cover. Part  of  the  hoax  involves  him  posing  as  the  gentle  blind  administrator  Dearborn  although  another  actor  had  to  voice  Dearborn's  lines  because  Lugosi's  voice  was  too  distinctive. In  the US  it  was  re-titled  The  Human  Monster .


Greta  Gynt  ( as  Diana  Stuart )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Greta  plays  the  daughter  of  one  of  Orloff's  victims  who  goes  undercover  to  investigate  his  death. Greta  was  born  as  Margrethe  Woxholt  in  Oslo  but  came  to  Britain  as  a  child  in  1921 . She  was  picked  up  by  Rank  who  tried  to  market  her  as  the  British  Jean  Harlow. That  didn't quite   work  out  but  she  did  have  a  long  career  in  film. her  last  being  in  1963.  She  died  in  2000  aged  83.

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