A Boris Karloff Christmas?

I was watching a Boris Karloff movie as I was eating breakfast this morning, a 1967 film called "The Sorcerers."  Not one of his more well-known movies, but it is one of the last he appeared in at the age of 79, and it got me pondering all sorts of things - about Christmas of all things, about late starts, about the ebb and flow of careers and lives, about the winters we endure, and the resiliency of people in general.  

Films often prompt this in me ...

Karloff, "The Sorcerers"
(image courtesy of The Spooky Isles)

Since I was a child, I've been fascinated with Karloff (who was most famous for playing the original Frankenstein Monster), and the other legendary classic horror actors, especially Bela Lugosi (to me, the most famous Dracula), Lon Chaney, Jr., the British actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (who, at 90+ years of age, has just appeared in the latest Hobbit movie).  They are not household names to many; but they have left their mark and they feel like old friends to me.