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Condemned to Live
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Directed by Frank Strayer
In Condemned to Live, Ralph Morgan stars as Professor Paul Kriston, the kindly and generous doctor of a tiny European village. So well-liked is Kriston that the beautiful Marguerite Mane (Maxine Doyle) is willing to marry him, even though she loves another man, young David (Russell Gleason). Things take a sinister turn when a series of murders occur in the village, apparently committed by a vampiric beast. David makes himself quite unpopular when he suggests that the killer may be a human being. Meanwhile, Professor Kriston turns to an old family friend, Dr. Anders Bizet (Pedro de Cordoba), for a possible solution to the murder spree, but Bizet is strangely secretive. Condemned to Live was filmed on standing sets at Universal City and on location at Bronson Canyon. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Returning to both the theme and locations of his earlier The Vampire Bat (1933), director Frank R. Strayer is at it again but in much more stately fashion. Where the earlier excursion into the macabre zipped by with commendable speed, Condemned to Live takes its sweet old time to get from point A to the inevitable point B, an exercise in tedium that offers a modern audience plenty of opportunity to admire such classic sets as the Hunchback of Notre Dame's bell tower, the famous Castle Frankenstein, the Middle European village and other Universal landmarks, some of whom remain attractions to this very day. The acting and dialogue is early talkie cumbersome and Ralph Morgan amply demonstrates why he never became as popular as brother Frank. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
 

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