There’s something perfect

 And Mrs. There’s something perfect about it being a silent film. Excited about that. Karloff was not happy with that move, thinking the creature was more effective as a mute, but his simple broken lines led to some of the films most memorable bits of dialogue (“I love death.It’s still a brilliant, childlike, silent performance, and given how cliched a cultural icon the film has become it’s easy to forget how very good it really is.Meanwhile a seemingly normal middle-class All-American kid is buying an awful lot of guns. Bram Stoker attempted to stop the film from being shown, as the filmmakers had based it on Dracula, but had not licensed the novel. The evil that Karloff undertakes is always made clear and understandable and sympathetic. On cue he turns to face the camera. The clock is ticking.In his subsequent Lewton films, Isle of the Dead and Bedlam, he plays (in turn) a career military man trying to cope with the plague and the crewl administrator of a notorious 18th century asylum. Dorner killed one sheriff's deputy and wounded another in a gunbattle that ended with fire consuming the cabin he holed up in. But he continued working as much as ever. In addition to employees, the company owes money to roughly 40 other creditors, including law firms, accountants, utilities, landlords and suppliers.Hjalmar Poelzig (Karloff) is the cool, Satanic, former commandant of an Eastern European death camp (this was five years before the start of WWII).