This is a collection of print media from other films that played the Pacific Northwest in 1943.
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Devil Bat's Daughter (1946)
Wishing to dispose of his wife, psychiatrist Doctor Elliott makes his patient Nina think that she suffers from a compulsion to kill. He drugs Nina, murders his wife and leaves evidence that points to Nina. The latter, pre-conditioned by Elliott, also thinks she is guilty.
Director: Frank Wisbar
Writers: Griffin Jay (screenplay), Ernst Jäger (story), Leo J. McCarthy (story)
Stars: Rosemary La Planche, John James, Michael Hale
Valley of the Zombies (1946)
Dr. Maynard tells Dr. Terry Evans and his nurse, Susan Drake, about the theft of ten pints of blood from his lab. Later, he is visited by Ormand Murks, a man Maynard had once had committed to an insane asylum and who later died from an operation, and Maynard learns that Murks is an example of living death whose abnormality is counter-acted only by blood.
Director: Philip Ford
Writers: Dorrell McGowan (screenplay), Stuart E. McGowan (screenplay), Royal K. Cole (original story)
November 27, 1946 ad (Seattle)
November 27, 1946 photo (Seattle)
Isle of the Dead (1945)
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects one young girl of being a vampiric kind of demon called a vorvolaka.
Director: Mark Robson
Writers: Ardel Wray, Val Lewton (uncredited), Josef Mischel (uncredited)
Stars: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
March 10, 1946 photo (Seattle)
March 10, 1946 ad (Seattle)
Isle of the Dead (1945) trailer
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The Spiral Staircase (1946)
In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
Director: Robert Siodmak
Writers: Mel Dinelli (screenplay), Ethel Lina White (novel "Some Must Watch")
Stars: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore
March 10, 1946 photo (Portland)
March 11, 1946 ad (Portland)
March 12, 1946 ad (Seattle)
The Spiral Staircase (1946) trailer
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House of Horrors (1946)
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Writers: George Bricker (screenplay), Dwight V. Babcock (original story -John Medford is Missing)
Stars: Robert Lowery, Virginia Grey, Bill Goodwin, Rondo Hatton
April 4, 1946 ad (Seattle)
June 19, 1946 ad (Portland)
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The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
Director: Arthur Lubin
Writer: Eric Taylor (original screenplay)
Stars: Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Kirby Grant, Rondo Hatton
April 12, 1946 ad (Portland)
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The Cat Creeps (1946)
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of an elderly murdered woman.
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Writers: Edward Dein (screenplay), Jerry Warner (screenplay), Gerald Geraghty (original story)
Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Lois Collier, Paul Kelly
May 15, 1946 ad (Portland)
June 12, 1946 ad (Seattle)
The Cat Creeps (1946) trailer
The Flying Serpent (1946)
The demented archaeologist Dr. Andrew Forbes discovers a living, breathing serpent-creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl, the Killer Bird God. Tragically, he causes his wife's death by giving her one of the beast's feathers, causing the creature to track her down and slaughter her.
Director: Sam Newfield
Writer: John T. Neville (screenplay and story)
Stars: George Zucco, Ralph Lewis, Hope Kramer
July 18, 1946 ad (Seattle)
The Flying Serpent (1946) trailer
