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Black Moon
Love battling against the sorcery of the jungle!
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
- Original title
- Black Moon
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jun 13, 2022 · via TMDB
Long before he found his stride with Messrs. Rathbone and Bruce and "Sherlock Holmes", Roy William Neill took the helm for this occult drama set on a paradise island riddled with voodoo mysticism. Dorothy Burgess ("Juanita") is the young woman who returns with her family to her childhood home, many years after losing her parents, only to discover that the locals consider her the reincarnation of a goddess. Before long she is fully enveloped in the role and this causes a certain degree of friction, shall we say, in her marriage! The story is - even for the genre - pretty far-fetched. Her comprehensive absorption into her new religion is glossed over far too quickly, and for some reason too much focus is then put onto the relationship between her husband "Stephen" (Jack Holt) and his glamorous secretary "Gail" (Fay Wray) which really distracts from this otherwise quite effectively eerie and atmospheric (admittedly, pretty stage bound) production with loads of flickering light and menacing drumming. The ending is predictable, but at times the route there is actually quite scarily put together - I can imagine it raising a few hairs in 1934. This is much better than I was expecting it to be - and if you like the theme, then I'd give it a go.
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Jack Holt
Stephen Lane
Fay Wray
Gail Hamilton
Dorothy Burgess
Juanita Perez Lane
Cora Sue Collins
Nancy Lane
Arnold Korff
Dr. Raymond Perez
Clarence Muse
'Lunch' McClaren
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Ruva
Laurence Criner
Kala, the priest
Lumsden Hare
John Macklin
Henry Kolker
The Psychiatrist
Theresa Harris
Sacrificed Girl (uncredited)
Ruby Dandridge
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William R. Dunn
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Billy McClain
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Charles R. Moore
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Lillian West
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Roy William Neill
Director
Harry Cohn
Producer
M
Conqueror of the Orient
Heat
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Scarface
Blow-Up
Dead Man
2046
Frenzy
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Shanghai Express
Second Wife
Heavenly Creatures
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
Next Door
Seven Years of Night
The Omen
Sliver
Lost Joy
Massacre on Aisle 12
Witness for the Prosecution
Cast Away
The Night Stalker
I Walked with a Zombie
Lord of the Flies
The Night Strangler
Instinct
The Invitation
Race with the Devil
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
Robinson Crusoe
Quicksand
Circle
White Zombie
The Dark Past
The Conspiracy
Lord of Illusions
Murder in Three Acts
The Quiller Memorandum
Perfect Sisters
Jun 15, 1934
