{"movies":[{"credits":[{"name":"Hamilton MacFadden","role":"director"},{"name":"Warner Oland","role":"actor"},{"name":"Sally Eilers","role":"actor"},{"name":"Bela Lugosi","role":"actor"},{"name":"Dorothy Revier","role":"actor"},{"name":"Robert Young","role":"actor"}],"description":"Detective Charlie Chan of the Honolulu police works a murder investigation where Lugosi is a prime suspect in this engaging effort which constitutes the earliest surviving Chan mystery.","id":"26e44cd5","poster":"tbc.jpg","rating":3.5,"title":"The Black Camel","webRef":{"ref":"tt0021668","site":"imdb.com"},"year":1931},{"credits":[{"name":"Edgar G. 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Lee","role":"director"},{"name":"Boris Karloff","role":"actor"},{"name":"Bela Lugosi","role":"actor"},{"name":"Basil Rathbone","role":"actor"},{"name":"Lionel Atwill","role":"actor"},{"name":"Josephine Hutchinson","role":"actor"}],"description":"Lugosi as the hunchbacked Ygor is worth the price of admission by himself, but we're also treated to Karloff's final reprise of his role as the monster, Rathbone's stiff portrayal of the mad doctor's son, and Atwill's iconic Inspector Krogh (he of the trick hand).","id":"d49a35aa","poster":"sof.jpg","rating":4.5,"title":"Son of Frankenstein","webRef":{"ref":"tt0031951","site":"imdb.com"},"year":1939},{"credits":[{"name":"Colbert Clark","role":"director"},{"name":"Albert Herman","role":"director"},{"name":"Bela Lugosi","role":"actor"},{"name":"Viva Tattersall","role":"actor"},{"name":"Malcolm McGregor","role":"actor"},{"name":"George J. Lewis","role":"actor"}],"description":"First-rate stunts and action sequences set this apart from the usual low-budget movie serial fare; however Lugosi is ill-used in the role of Professor Strang, and the plot suffers from some highly repetitive back-and-forth possession of the stolen jewels.","id":"f6a7237d","poster":"tws.jpg","rating":3.5,"title":"The Whispering Shadow (Serial)","webRef":{"ref":"tt0024768","site":"imdb.com"},"year":1933},{"credits":[{"name":"Victor Halperin","role":"director"},{"name":"Bela Lugosi","role":"actor"},{"name":"Madge Bellamy","role":"actor"},{"name":"Joseph Cawthorn","role":"actor"},{"name":"Robert Frazer","role":"actor"}],"description":"The Halperin brothers and writer Garnett Weston conceived a devilishly twisted plotline beset by stagey histrionics from the cast; still, Lugosi's glowering portrayal of the demented zombie-lord Legendre along with some kick-ass sets on loan from Universal make this movie well worthwhile.","id":"848cde9d","poster":"wz.jpg","rating":4,"title":"White Zombie","webRef":{"ref":"tt0023694","site":"imdb.com"},"year":1932}]}