Set in Greece during the 1912 Balkan War, Isle of the Dead receives its grotesqueness partly from its setting and partly from its director, Mark Robson, whose resumé boasted other horror flicks of the time. The story that unwinds on the island of quarantined plague victims is more disturbing than even its superficial impression [...]

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Lewton used three directors for the series: Jacques Tourneur, Mark Robson, and Robert Wise. Each of these men had worked as film editors, with Wise editing Citizen Kane (1941) and Robson on board as the associate editor. After directing Cat People, Tourneur directed the next two: I Walked with a Zombie (1943), a voodoo reworking [...]

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