I wasn't expecting too much from "The Face of Marble", despite it starring John Carradine, seeing that it was a quickie effort by Monogram Pictures and directed by the all too prolific William Beaudine. After seeing it, I will admit that it's not a terrible movie... but it's definitely very, very mediocre. Beaudine does take what had to be a painfully low budget (and short shooting schedule) and make a movie that looks okay. He even puts in a little atmosphere here and there. Unfortunately, in the end there is painfully little that could be considered horror. While there is material like a vampire dog, it does almost all its business offscreen. As it turns out, most of the movie is talk, talk, talk, and it's so drab dialogue (on top of a very slow-moving story) that not even Carradine can put some life into the dialogue given to him. While this is not one of the worst movies I have ever seen, I don't see any classic horror fan finding much positive to say about it.
Review of The Face of Marble
