The Black Room (1935 film)

The Black Room is a 1935 film about a man who seeks to maintain his feudal power on his Tyrolean estate by murdering and impersonating his benevolent younger twin.

Directed by Roy William Neill. Written by Henry Myers and Arthur Strawn.

Dead or Alive... He could kill!  (taglines)

Baron Gregor de Bergmann

• This house began with murder. It will end the same way. [Reading from the coat-of-arms] "Principio Et Finem Similia." I end as I began!

Dialogue

Mashka: Don't you want to kiss me?

Baron Gregor de Bergmann: [Cutting a juicy pear with his knife and eating it as he talks] A pear is the best fruit!

Mashka: Every time you see her, you want to be rid of me.

Baron Gregor de Bergmann: [Seemingly ignoring her] Lots of juice in a pear!

Mashka: Well, you'll find out I'll not be got rid of so easily! Do you hear what I say?

Baron Gregor de Bergmann: Adam should've chosen a pear.

Mashka: You've got it all planned, haven't you? You're gonna marry her. You're gonna make her your wife, your baroness!

Baron Gregor de Bergmann: I like the feel of a pear! And when you're through with it...

[He carelessly tosses it across the room]

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Col. Paul Hassel: [Playing chess] Your attack is weak as your brother Gregor's was brilliant. Chess, by the way, was the only virtue I ever discovered in him.

Baron Gregor de Bergmann: I received a letter today from him from Warsaw. Most of it was devoted to begging me to send his love to you, Colonel.

Col. Paul Hassel: His love to me? Well, if I have to accept it, I'd rather have it by post than any way I can think of.

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Baron Gregor de Bergmann: [as Anton lies dying in the well of the Black Room] Goodbye, brother. There's nothing to fear now. The prophecy can't be fulfilled.

Anton de Bergmann: [With certitude] It will be fulfilled!

Baron Gregor de Bergmann: Perhaps you will come back from the dead to kill me?

Anton de Bergmann: [Dying words] Even from the dead!

Taglines

• Embraced by the Devil! Monster . . . his kiss the password to oblivion!
• HE WAS A DEMON OF DEATH -- ...WHOSE MYSTERIOUS CHAMBERS HELD GRUESOME SECRETS!
• Karloff Reveals... What the Grave Conceals!
• Master of the House of Horror!
• Dead or Alive... He could kill!

Cast

• Boris Karloff — Baron Gregor de Berghmann / Anton de Berghmann
• Marian Marsh — Thea Hassel
• Robert Allen — Lt. Albert Lussan
• Thurston Hall — Col. Paul Hassel
• John Buckler — Buran
• Torben Meyer — Peter
• Katherine DeMille — Mashka
• Henry Kolker — Baron de Berghman
• Colin Tapley — Paul Hassel as a young lieutenant
• Edward Van Sloan — Doctor
• Egon Brecher — Lead Villager
• Helena Grant — Anna, the housekeeper
• Marion Lessing — Maria, the chambermaid
• Robert Middlemass — The Prosecutor

External links

• The Black Room quotes at the Internet Movie Database