PRODUCTION
Production Company: Universal Pictures
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr (uncredited)
Associate Producer: David Diamond

SCRIPT
Script: David Boehm, Jim Tully
Poem: Edgar Allan Poe

DIRECTION
Director: Louis Friedlander (real name: Lew Landers)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Charles Stumar

EDITING
Editor: Albert Akst

MUSIC
Music Supervisor: Gilbert Kurland
Music: W. Franke Harling (uncredited), Heinz Roemheld (uncredited), Clifford Vaughan (uncredited)

SOUND
Dialogue Director: Florence Enright
Sound System: Westrex Recording System

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Albert S. D'Agostino

MISCELLANEOUS
Dance Arranger: Theodore Kosloff

CAST
Karloff (real name: Boris Karloff) (Edmond Bateman)
Bela Lugosi (Dr Richard Vollin)
Lester Matthews (Dr Jerry Halden)
Irene Ware (Jean Thatcher)
Samuel S. Hinds (Judge Thatcher)
Spencer Charters (Geoffrey)
Inez Courtney (Mary Burns)
Ian Wolfe (Colonel Bertram Grant)
Maidel Turner (Harriet)
Jonathan Hale (doctor (uncredited))
Arthur Hoyt (Mr Chapman (uncredited))
Walter Miller (doctor (uncredited))
Madeline Talcott (nurse (uncredited))
Cyril Thornton (butler (uncredited))
Helen Ware (bit part (uncredited))

PLOT SUMMARY

A brilliant surgeon, Dr Vollin, is driven mad by his lust for a young dancer he is asked to operate on after she is disfigured in a car crash. Vollin, a Poe fanatic, has re-created many of the torture chambers from his stories and isn't afraid to use them. Meanwhile, a killer arrives at the doctor's surgery looking for him to change his appearance to help him evade the law and Vollin sees the perfect instrument for his murderous schemes to woo the young dancer.

The second of Universal's three teamings of Karloff and Lugosi, The Raven isn't as strong as The Black Cat (1934). A strong script helps and Karloff is watchable as the killer trying to evade the law, but Lugosi's eye-rolling melodramatics come close to ruining the whole thing. A disappointment.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Universal Pictures/Film Classics Inc
Video Distributor: MCA