On 1/19/96 Robert Johnson, Jr. wrote: >I am looking for help in locating the title of two films. >The first is a Boris Karloff masterpiece from the '30s. He plays >both lead roles (twin brothers; one good, the other predicably evil). >It is a period piece, set in Europe (?), prehaps around the 1500 or 1600's. >The storyline is simple. This is THE BLACK ROOM (1935), directed by Roy William Neill, who went on to direct most of the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films. >The second film title I'm looking for is less clear in my memory. There >is a shipwreck. Survivors (Doug McClure?) make it to an island. There is >pestilance, evil, etc., etc. but nobody can leave. It turns out that there >are a bunch of Nazi soldiers lying on the surrounding reef's floor waiting >to kill anyone who attempts to leave. (I seem to recall that they >verify the tale by using a glass bottomed boat.) The Nazis are gill-men >types; results of an experiment. I believe the "doctor" (Christopher Lee ?) >was trapped on the island as well. This one is SHOCK WAVES (aka DEATH CORPS, a translation of Totenkorps, the name given to the soggy Nazi zombies). No Doug McClure, but John Carradine is the captain of the shipwrecked glass-bottomed boat (he doesn't survive very long). Peter Cushing is the mad scientist. 1975, directed by Ken Wiederhorn. --Richard Leskosky Richard J. Leskosky office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 244-2223 Unit for Cinema Studies University of Illinois ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]