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A stunning episode of The Studios, Year by Year: a great year for Universal, 1934, gives us\xa0The Black Cat, the one big studio success of Edgar G. Ulmer, icon of marginal filmmaking; and James Whale\u2019s under-discussed\xa0One More River, based on the novel by John Galsworthy. Elise concocts a reading to justify her early, confused understanding of\xa0The Black Cat\xa0as being about WWII rather than WWI. Then we continue to weave our auteur theory about Whale\u2019s interest in women\u2019s experience of oppression related to sexual shame. As the Year of the Code continues, two more movies that should never have gotten made: Satan worshipping, flaying old friends alive, virgin sacrifice, marital rape, striking wives with riding crops, and executing demonic cats with knives is what Universal is all about in 1934. And wait for next episode, when we tell you what the original script of Stahl\u2019s\xa0Imitation of Life\xa0included to trigger Breen!\xa0

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Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 The Back Cat [dir. Edgar G. Ulmer]

0h 44m 58s: \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 One More River [dir. James Whale]

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