SUPER RARE BELA LUGOSI AND BORIS KARLOFF!
Lost UNIVERSAL Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi film. GIFT OF GAB.
1934. Black & White.
Universal added a tremendous array of stars (many of them now-forgotten personalitites) to the cast of this film, originally titled Let ¿Em Rave and Smooth Gab. Much of the talent appears during radio broadcasts of Colonel Withers¿ Chicken Livers programme. Among the names are the Three Stooges, though not the famed trio but a competeing group as the famous Stooges had just signed with Columbia Pictures for Woman Haters, so three look-a-like actors replaced them.
Gift of Gab is a comedy about a man who can sell anyone anything... he has the ¿gift of gab.¿ The plot involves a smooth-talking radio announcer hired to revive interest in a failing radio show. Therein follows a procession of one-reelers showcasing radio talent, put together to make a full-length feature.
Lugosi appears as an Apache wearing a checkered hat, with Karloff portraying the ¿Phantom¿. Both are in the same sequence, a murder mystery skit for a radio broadcast.
Universal shot the film during July, with Lugosi concurrently shooting the serial Return of Chandu. Hungarian Paul Lukas, a friend of Lugosi¿s, also appeared in the cast playing the corpse alongside another acquaintance - the black cat who was the title player in 1934¿s The Black Cat.
Gift of Gab was widely regarded as a ¿lost¿ film, collectors and experts resigned never to be able to view the missing Karloff and Lugosi performance. However in the late 1990s a worn, heavily duplicated, but complete print was unearthed, and this single surviving print is the only way to see this otherwise impossible to find movie.
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