Hey folks, Harry here with that strange man from Chicago.... CAPONE. He's giving all you Chi-towners a heads up to just the thing to tingle your spine and chill your sweats. Universal Horror films... all summer long in a damn fine theater. Well, if you were I and I were you... I'd be at the Music Box alot this summer. Check it out...
Hey Harry, Capone in Chicago here. I don't know if you would put this on your site or not, but it definitely qualifies as cool news, so I send it. This really only applies to people in the Chicago area, but perhaps this series is travelling the nation. Don't know.
The greatest movie house in Chicago, the Music Box (3733 N. Southport, just north of Addison) is hosting a series of Saturday and Sunday matinees from June 17 to Sept. 10 featuring classic horror films from Universal Studios. I plan on attending every screening so hopefully I'll see some of you there.
All screenings begin at 11:30 a.m., and each week the screening will be preceded by a 1943 "Batman" serial. Here's the line up:
June 17-18
DRACULA (1931) w/ Bela Lugosi, Dwight Frye, and Edward van Sloan. Dir.: Tod Browning
, Cinematography by Karl Freund
June 24-25
FRANKENSTEIN (1931) w/ Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye, and Edward van Sloan. Dir.: James Whale.
July 1-2
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) w/ Boris Karloff, Dwight Frye, John Carradine, Billy Barty, and Else Lanchester. Dir.:
James Whale
July 8-9
THE MUMMY (1932) w/ Boris Karloff, Edward van Sloan, and Noble Johnson. Dir.: Karl Freund
July 15-16
THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) w/ Claude Rains, John Carradine, Dwight Frye, and Gloria Stuart. Dir.: James Whale, Written by Preston Sturges
July 22-23
THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) w/ Karloff, Raymond Massey, Charles Laughton and Gloria Stuart. Dir.: James
Whale
July 29-30
THE WOLFMAN (1941) w/ Lon Chaney Jr., Maria Ouspenskaya, Bela Lugosi, Patric Knowles, and Claude Rains. Dir.: George Waggner, written by Curt Siodmak
Aug. 5-6
THE BLACK CAT (1934) w/ Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, and Boris Karloff. Dir.: Edgar G. Ulmer
Aug. 12-13
DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936) w/ Gloria Holden, Edward van Sloan, and an instant of Bela Lugosi. Dir: Lambert Hillyer
Aug. 19-20
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN (1943) w/ Bela Lugosi, Marie Ouspenskaya, Patric Knowles, Dwight Frye, and Lon Chaney Jr.
Dir.: Roy William Neill, Written by Curt Siodmak
Aug. 26-27
HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944) w/ Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Glenn Strange, and John
Carradine. Dir.: Erle C. Kenton, Written by Curt Siodmak
Sept. 2-3
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) w/ Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, Glenn Strange, and Lon Chaney Jr.
Dir.: Charles Barton
Sept. 9-10
MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1932) w/ Bela Lugosi, and Noble Johnson. Dir.: Robert Florey, Written by John Huston, Cinematography by Karl Freund
Arrive EARLY because the Music Box matinees can get pretty crowded and you want to grab a good seat for these.
Capone
