# The Raven (1935)

The Raven is a 1935 American horror film directed by Louis Friedlander and starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. It follows Dr. Richard Vollin, a neurosurgeon obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe, who becomes infatuated with a young dancer named Jean Thatcher after he saves her life following a car accident. As his obsession grows, he uses a fugitive criminal, Edmond Bateman, to carry out his twisted plans involving torture and revenge against those who stand in the way of his desires.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1935
- By: Louis Friedlander
- Genres: Horror, Science fiction
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the.-raven.-1935)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1935; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2030. Unclear is not offered.