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The Val Lewton Season: Isle of the Dead

on BBC Two England

Starring Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew.
A Greek general, an American reporter, a British consul and his wife are among a group of people trapped on a Greek island during the war of 1912. Plague breaks out, but a peasant woman warns of the presence of a vorvolaka - a vampirish being that drains all joy from the living, and possesses the newly dead. Boris Karloff stars as the dour general in another vintage excursion into terror by master producer Val Lewton.
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Contributors

Screenplay:
Ardel Wray
Screenplay:
Josef Michel
Producer:
Val Lewton
Director:
Mark Robson
General:
Boris Karloff
Thea:
Ellen Drew
Oliver:
Marc Cramer
Mrs St Aubyn:
Katherine Emery
Kyra:
Helene Thimig
St Aubyn:
Alan Napier
Albrecht:
Jason Robards Sr
Dr Drossos:
Ernst Dorian

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