The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935 film)

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Mystery of Edwin Drood

Directed by	Stuart Walker
Written by	Leopold Atlas John L. Balderston Charles Dickens (original novel) Bradley King Gladys Unger
Starring	Claude Rains Douglass Montgomery Heather Angel David Manners
Music by	Edward Ward
Cinematography	George Robinson
Edited by	Edward Curtiss
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	February 4, 1935 (1935-02-04)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Mystery of Edwin Drood is a 1935 film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Claude Rains in the role of the villainous John Jasper. It is the third film adaptation and first sound film version of Charles Dickens's unfinished novel of the same name. Filmed by Universal Pictures, it co-stars Douglass Montgomery and Valerie Hobson (the future Estella of David Lean's 1946 Great Expectations), and featured David Manners as Edwin Drood. Stuart Walker had previously directed a little-known 1934 film adaptation of Great Expectations. The film's script provides an ending to the original unfinished novel, solving the mystery of the fate of Edwin Drood.

Mystery of Edwin Drood marks Claude Rains' only appearance in a Charles Dickens film.

Cast

Claude Rains as John Jasper
David Manners as Edwin Drood
Heather Angel as Rosa Bud
Valerie Hobson as Helna Landless
E.E. Clive as Mayor Sapsea
Francis L. Sullivan as The Rev. Mister Crisparkle
Douglass Montgomery as Neville Landless
Walter Kingsford as Mr. Grewgious
Zeffie Tilbury as Princess Puffer

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Universal Monsters

Films

Phantom of the Opera	The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Dracula	Dracula (English) (1931) Dracula (Spanish) (1931) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Son of Dracula (1943)

Frankenstein	Frankenstein (1931) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Son of Frankenstein (1939) The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

Edgar Allan Poe	Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Black Cat (1934) The Raven (1935) The Black Cat (1941)

Mummies	The Mummy (1932) The Mummy's Hand (1940) The Mummy's Tomb (1942) The Mummy's Ghost (1944) The Mummy's Curse (1944) Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Invisible Man	The Invisible Man (1933) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) The Invisible Woman (1940) Invisible Agent (1942) The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Werewolves	Werewolf of London (1935) The Wolf Man (1941) She-Wolf of London (1946)

Crossovers	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) House of Dracula (1945) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Ape Woman	Captive Wild Woman (1943) Jungle Woman (1944) The Jungle Captive (1945)

Inner Sanctum Mysteries	Calling Dr. Death (1943) Weird Woman (1944) Dead Man's Eyes (1944) The Frozen Ghost (1945) Strange Confession (1945) Pillow of Death (1945)

Gill-man	Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Revenge of the Creature (1955) The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

Remakes	Dracula (1979) The Mummy (1999) The Wolfman (2010) Dracula Untold (2014) The Mummy (2017)

Others	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) The Cat and the Canary (1927) The Man Who Laughs (1928) The Last Warning (1929) The Last Performance (1929) The Cat Creeps (1930) La Voluntad del muerto (1930) The Old Dark House (1932) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) The Invisible Ray (1936) Night Key (1937) The Phantom Creeps (1939) Tower of London (1939) Black Friday (1940) Man Made Monster (1941) Horror Island (1941) Night Monster (1942) The Mad Ghoul (1943) The Climax (1944) House of Horrors (1946) The Brute Man (1946) Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) The Strange Door (1951) The Black Castle (1952) It Came from Outer Space (1953) Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) Tarantula (1955) Cult of the Cobra (1955) This Island Earth (1955) The Mole People (1956) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Monolith Monsters (1957) Monster on the Campus (1958) The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) Curse of the Undead (1959) The Leech Woman (1960)

Tributes

Boo! (1932)
Shock Theater (1957)
Tales of Frankenstein (1958)
The Munsters (1964-1966)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Monster Squad (1976-1977)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Van Helsing (2004)
House of the Wolf Man (2009)
Monster High (2010)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

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