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Condemned to Live

USA 1935
produced by
Maury M. Cohen for Invincible/Chesterfield
directed by Frank R. Strayer
starring Ralph Morgan, Pedro de Cordoba, Maxine Doyle, Russell Gleason, Mischa Auer, Lucy Beaumong, Carl Stockdale, Barbara Bedford, Robert Frazer, Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, Heidi Shope, Marilyn Knowlden
written by Karen DeWolf

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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A little village is plagued by a series of murders, and the superstitious townfolks soon suspect a giant vampire bat to do the killings. Interestingly, professor Kristan (Ralph Morgan), the local scientist whom everybody asks for advice, agrees with them. Only young David (Russell Gleason) seems to be of a sounder mind, and he insists it must have been something human that has done all these killings - not that everyone would listen to him, though, and while he wants to post guards to capture the killer who only strikes in the dark, everybody else follows the professor's advice to light up as many candles as possible to keep the monster away.

The conflict between the professor and David goes deeper than just being a conflict of opinions though, because the professor is to marry Marguerite (Maxine Doyle), the woman David has been in love with since childhood, and even though she tries to persuade herself otherwise, she loves him back.

Enter Doctor Bizet (Pedro de Cordoba), the professor's mentor and best friend - who interestingly sides with David both in terms of theories about the killer and concerning Marguerite, and he persuades the townfolks that the killer is actually a man and convinces the professor to give up Marguerite. Now this is a very decent thing to do but problematic on two accounts: a) the townfolks now thinks hunchback Zan (Mischa Auer), the professor's loyal hunchback who has never hurt a fly, is the killer, and b) the killer is actually the professor himself, whose mum was bitten by a vampire bat when pregnant with him, which causes him to turn into a fiend every time the lights go out, without even knowing it. And when he pays a visit to Marguerite to release her from their engagement, the lights do go out and he lmost kills her.

Ultimately though, the professor can only just keep the townsfolks from killing Zan, who has known about his master's condition and covered up his killings out of loyalty, and in the end, the professor kills himself to save the others by hurling himself off a cliff to his death. Loyal Zan fololows just one step behind ...

 


A low budget horror film that is not without its interest in terms of giving the vampire genre a whodunnit twist, plus it's quite atmospheric for a mere B picture - but that said, Condemned to Live is far from perfect, and the main reason for this is its completely boring cast of characters: They are all so good, so benign, there isn't a mean streak in any of them (after all, even the professor doesn't know what he's doing), so apart from the main plot about the killer, there is hardly any conflict in the whole story - which pretty much derives the whole movie of any meat on its bones ...

 

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