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Lon Chaney Jr. has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by High Noon.
The Kiss of the Vampire
1963
Horror
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
Dir. George Waggner · With Lon Chaney Jr., Claude Rains, Ralph Bellamy
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Dir. Charles Barton · With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr.
A man and his wife claim the mansion of his warlock ancestor burned alive in 1765.
Dir. Roger Corman · With Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr.
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
Dir. Lewis Milestone · With Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr., Betty Field
In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the age of 10 or so on as they physically develop. The family chauffeur looks out for them and covers up their indiscretions. Trouble comes when greedy distant relatives and their lawyer arrive to dispossess the family of its home.
Dir. Jack Hill · With Lon Chaney Jr., Carol Ohmart, Quinn K. Redeker
as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man
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After being resurrected by grave robbers, Larry Talbot searches for Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes of being cured of his lycanthropy. The mad scientist may turn out to be dead, but his monster is just waiting to be found…
Dir. Roy William Neill · With Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles
as Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot (aka The Wolf Man)
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Dir. Erle C. Kenton · With Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish
as The Frankenstein Monster
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Dir. Erle C. Kenton · With Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill
as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.
Dir. Erle C. Kenton · With John Carradine, Onslow Stevens, Lon Chaney Jr.
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