LeonLouisRicci There's a Lot Going On in this Monogram Quickie Directed by the King of Quick Draws, William Beaudine and Starring John Carradine. It is a Mad Scientist Movie but the Scientist Here is Really Not Mad, Just Determined to Help Mankind Although He Does Experiment Out of the Box.Robert Shayne is the Assistant and Figures in a Love Triangle of Sorts and there is Voodoo Magic, a Brain Surgery Suffering Wife that Really has Nothing to do with the Story, Reincarnated Ghostly Apparitions, a Family Dog that Walks Through Walls, and Some Mad Lab Scenes that are Somewhat Impressive.It's a Jammed Packed Little Low Budget Movie Crammed with Sincere Characters and One Loopy Lunatic, Some Grisly Murders, and the Whole Thing is Handled Perfectly Serious and Straight. That Makes for Some Edge and it is More Melodramatic than Scary and has More Food for Thought than Usually Found in This Type of Outlandish Horror. Overall, it is Above Average and the Tone is Quite Different than the Usual B-Movie Crazy Scientist Stuff. The Cast is Good and the Result is an Unusual Display of a Number of Ingredients Thrown Together Quite Irrationally and Intentionally and that Makes this Stand Apart from its Poverty Row Cousins.

Michael_Elliott Face of Marble, The (1946) * 1/2 (out of 4) Boring horror film has John Carradine playing a scientist who's so caught up in bringing the dead back to life that he doesn't notice his wife and assistant are getting it on. Carradine is quite mute in this outing, which is a shame and the story is boring and by the numbers. It really would have been a lot better had Carradine gone over the top and brought some life to the film. There's really no life or energy in this film, which is why the viewing will wish he'd turn into marble. This Monogram film hasn't yet turned up on DVD but you can find it at various online stores.

preppy-3 A scientist (John Carradine--sadly) finds out how to bring the dead back to life. However they come back with faces of marble. Eventually this all leads to disaster.Boring, totally predictable 1940s outing. This scared me silly when I was a kid but just bores me now. I had to struggle to stay awake! With one exception, the acting is horrible. Such expressionless boring actors! Hopeless.There are some good things about this: Carradine, despite the script, actually gives a very good performance. And there are a few mildly creepy moments involving a ghost of a Great Dane walking through walls. There's also one of the worst-looking knockouts in cinema history. Still, none of this is fun enough to sit through this. Avoid.

BaronBl00d Monogram Studios, director William "One Shot" Beaudine, and horror/character actor icon John Carradine team up in this fun yet implausible offering called The Face of Marble. The story deals with really two strands of plot that come together at the end. One strand tells the story of John Carradine and his young male assistant working on a way of bringing life back to life once dead. The scientific logic is weak, yet executed very nicely. The other story deals with a love triangle between Carradine, his assistant, and Carradine's wife who has fallen in love with the assistant. Carradine's wife(played by Claudia Drake) also happens to have a very "loyal" servant from Africa trained in the black arts. This servant's name is Maria, and she is the very personification of wickedness as she stops at nothing to satisfy her mistress and her own evil ends. Rosa Rey plays Maria and does a real fine job capturing and creating an atmosphere of foreboding and doom. The rest of the acting is all very acceptable. Carradine actually gives a nice, restrained performance as a somewhat misguided but basically good man. Considering the budgetary concerns, this little film is quite good. Some of the special effects are very innovative. The huge Great Dane that becomes a ghost and walks through windows and doors howling in the night is particularly effective and creepy.