The Black Cat (1934 film)

The Black Cat is a 1934 horror film that became Universal Pictures biggest box office hit of the year. The picture was the first of eight movies six of which were produced by Universal to pair actors Bla Lugosi and Boris Karloff. Edgar G. Ulmer directed the film, which was also notable for being one of the first movies with an almost continuous music score. Lugosi also appears in a 1941 film with the same title.

Later, the doctor, Peter, and Joan, share a bus, which crashes on a desolate, rainswept road. Joan is injured, and the doctor and Peter take her to Poelzigs home, built upon the ruins of Fort Marmorus, which Poelzig commanded during the war. Werdegast treats Joans injury, administering the hallucinogen hyoscine, causing the woman to behave erratically. While Peter puts her to bed, Werdegast accuses Poelzig of betraying the fort during the war to the Russians, resulting in the death of thousands of AustroHungarian soldiers. He also accuses Poelzig of stealing his wife Karen while he was in prison. Early on in the movie, Werdegast kills Poelzigs black cat, but Poelzig, who keeps dead women on display in glass cases, carries a second black cat around the house with him while he oversees other preserved dead women.Poelzig plans to sacrifice Joan Alison in a satanic ritual during the dark of the moon. He is seen reading a book called The Rites of Lucifer, while a beautiful blonde woman sleeps next to him. The blonde is Werdegasts daughter, also named Karen one of the women in the glass cases is Werdegasts wife. Werdegast bides his time, waiting for the right moment to strike down the mad architect who used to be his friend. ........

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