Vincent PriceFilmography

The Thief and the Cobbler

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Matthew Broderick, Donald Pleasence, Vincent Price, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Master animator Richard Williams (best known for his work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) created this visually dazzling full-length cartoon. Tack (voice of Matthew Broderick) is a shy and humble cobbler in love with the beautiful Princess Yum Yum (voice of Jennifer Beals). Tack gets his chance to Read More

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Four

Synopsis: This video is volume four of a four-part series presented by PBS, featuring some of the greatest poets in the English language. In this final volume, selections are read from the pens of Shakespeare, Dryden, Hardy, Lawrence, Eliot, Parker, and Blake. Readings are presented by film celebrities Read More

Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. One

Synopsis: This PBS video is one of a four-part series that presents some of the greatest poets in the annals of literature. Selections from their works are read by Hollywood actors. In this volume, the readings are performed by William Shatner, Vincent Price, Valerie Harper, and LeVar Burton. Among the Read More

The Heart of Justice

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Price

Synopsis: In this tense drama a reporter tries to figure out the reason a wealthy young man shot a popular pulp-fiction writer and then shot himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Synopsis: This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Read More

Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible: Queen Esther

Synopsis: This Hanna-Barbera animated video tells a version of the Bible story about Esther, whose heroism is commemorated annually by the feast of Purim. Esther, a Jewish orphan girl, is chosen by King Ahasuerus of Persia to be his queen. Meanwhile, the king's counselor schemes to bring about the death of Read More

Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook

Synopsis: Here's a look back at a bunch of the funniest scenes that appeared in the long-running Red Skelton Hour series. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Backtrack

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Fred Ward, John Turturro

Synopsis: Originally prepared for European release under the title Catchfire, Backtrack wasn't given a wide distribution until 1991, and then only to capitalize on the Oscar win of Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster. In Backtrack, Foster plays a youngish innocent who witnesses a mob hit. Professional Read More

Visit to Pompeii

Synopsis: This educational video includes a journey to Pompeii, the city that was destroyed in 79 A.D. by Mt. Vesuvius. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Touring the Palace of Versailles

Synopsis: This travelogue takes you the world's most historic palace in Versailles. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Edward Scissorhands

Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward has all the essential ingredients for today's standard body, with the exception of a pair of hands. For what is initially thought to be a Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Peterhof Palace

Synopsis: A travelogue that takes you to Peterof Palace, where rulers of the largest country in the world once lived. Your host is Vincent Price. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Kronberg Castle

Synopsis: Visit the historic Kronberg Castle in this travelogue, and Vincent Price will be your host. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Mt. Vernon

Synopsis: This travelogue takes you to the majestic Mount Vernon with Vincent Price. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Kilmainham Jail

Synopsis: Take a tour of this dreary Kilhainham Jail with Vincent Price as your guide. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Fushimi Castle

Synopsis: This travelogue takes you through the Fushimi Castle and looks at it's many mysteries. Hosted by the scare-master, Vincent Price! ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Edinburgh Castle

Synopsis: Hosted by Vincent Price, this travelogue takes you to the most famous castle in Scotland. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Iolani Palace

Synopsis: A travelogue with Vincent Price as your guide, you can learn the secrets of the Ioloni Palace. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Hampton Court, England

Synopsis: Take a tour through this spooky English castle with Vincent Price as your guide. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Pompeii

Synopsis: This travelogue takes you to the ruins of Pompeii that was destroyed by a volcano in 79 A.D. Your host is Vincent Price. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Virginia City, Nevada

Synopsis: Take this delightful tour through the unique mining towns of the old west. This travelogue is hosted by Vincent Price. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Versailles

Synopsis: A travelogue that offers the grandeur and opulence of the Palace at Versailles, and hosted by Vincent Price. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Once Upon a Midnight Scary

Synopsis: Vincent Price hosts this made-for-television trio of ghostly tales meant especially for children. The stories are "The Ghost Belongs to Me," 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and "The House with a Clock in Its Walls." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Little Troll Prince

Synopsis: The Little Troll Prince is saved when he discovers God's love. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Tsarkoe Selo

Synopsis: This travelogue is hosted by Vincent Price and looks at the mysteries and secrets of Tsarkoe Selo. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: San Juan Capistrano

Synopsis: This travelogue takes a look at the beautiful mission of San Juan Capistrano and is hosted by Vincent Price. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Port Arthur Jail

Synopsis: Hosted by Vincent Price, this travelogue takes a close look at the famous Port Arthur Jail in Australia. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

If These Walls Could Speak: Sutter's Mill

Synopsis: This travelogue takes a look at the famous Sutters Mill, where gold was first discovered in 1849. This program is hosted by Vincent Price. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dead Heat

Actors: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin, Vincent Price

Synopsis: Although many genre filmmakers have managed to blend horror and humor with great success, movies employing this formula often run the risk of both elements canceling each other out, resulting in a horror comedy that is neither scary nor funny. Alas, Dead Heat is a textbook example of this kind of Read More

Monsters and Maniacs

The Whales of August

Actors: Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Vincent Price, Ann Sothern, Harry Carey, Jr.

Synopsis: A once-in-a-lifetime cast of veterans performs David Berry's play about Libby Strong (Bette Davis) and Sarah Webber (Lillian Gish), widowed sisters vacationing on a Philadelphia island for their 60th consecutive summer. Libby is blind and embittered, while Sarah is healthy, supportive, and almost Read More

From a Whisper to a Scream

Actors: Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, Harry Caesar, Rosalind Cash

Synopsis: This horror anthology is hosted by Vincent Price and features a quartet of chilling stories, all of which took place in a single town that seems to inspire people to do horrendous things to each other. The stories contain scenes of graphic violence and considerable gore. The film is also known as Read More

Strange But True Football Stories

Spago Cooking with Wolfgang Puck

Synopsis: Wolfgang Puck began his illustrious career as a pioneer of the fusion of California and French cuisine. Since then he has opened several successful restaurants and has authored many cookbooks. In this video, Puck presents recipes for appetizers, pizza and pasta, entrees, and desserts. The video Read More

America Screams

Synopsis: The late Vincent Price, a roller coaster enthusiast himself, hosts this look at some of America's best roller coasters and gives a whirlwind history lesson on the amusement park. The video highlights approximately a dozen super coasters in the United States including Mindbender, Colossus, the Loch Read More

The Great Mouse Detective

Actors: Val Bettin, Eve Brenner, Candy Candido, Barrie Ingham

Synopsis: The first Disney animated feature to make extensive use of computer technology, The Great Mouse Detective was based on the children's novel Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus. The titular hero is Basil, a Holmes-like rodent (complete with deerstalker) who solves crimes in the company of his friend Read More

Tsarko Selo, Catherine II

Escapes

Synopsis: This cut-rate horror anthology is packaged in a TV-series format, lacking even the most rudimentary production values and enhanced only slightly by the brief narrative presence of Vincent Price, who appears in a linking story as a sinister postman who delivers the stories on videocassette to an Read More

Palace of Peterhof, Peter the Great

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Synopsis: This classic fairy tale from Jacob Grimm tells of a young boy who becomes the hostage apprentice of a sorcerer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff

Synopsis: Take this guided tour with Gonzo through his mansion, but be careful! He catches a cannonball and wrestles a brick, blindfolded in this entertaining story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dracula: The Great Undead

Synopsis: Hosted by actor Vincent Price this television documentary examines the mythical Dracula and his real-life counterpart, medieval Romanian ruler Vlad Tepes, known as Vlad the Impaler. Presented are historical accounts of the activities of Vlad Tepes, as well as clips from the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi Read More

Don't Ask Me, Ask God

Bloodbath at the House of Death

Actors: Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price, Sheila Steafel, John Fortune

Synopsis: This British horror spoof was conceived as a star vehicle for then-popular TV comedian Kenny Everett, who plays an occult scientist whose team of paranormal researchers are measuring psychic disturbances at a rural English estate called "Headstone Manor." Once the site of a bloody massacre, the Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Synopsis: The classic tale of a kind-hearted princess stalked by a jealous stepmother is brought to life in this early episode of Faerie Tale Theatre. Elizabeth McGovern is Snow White, the princess whose stepmother, the queen, banishes her because she is jealous of the girl's beauty. She takes up residence Read More

The Hollywood Collection: The Horror of it All

Synopsis: Directed by Philip Martell, music director of such horror films as Snake Woman (1961) and Die, Monster, Die! (1964), this documentary recounts the history of horror movies, with footage and scenes from major horror films such as Nosferatu and The Horror of Dracula. Highlights include footage of Read More

Thriller

Actors: Vincent Price, Michael Jackson

Faerie Tale Theatre: Boy Who Left Home to Find out About the Shivers

Synopsis: Peter MacNicol stars in this fairy tale as Martin, a boy who has never been afraid. Determined to test his record of fearlessness, he sets off on a journey on which he meets a mysterious king (Christopher Lee) who has a haunted castle for rent. He makes a deal with Martin that if he can survive Read More

Vincent

Synopsis: A seven-year-old boy from a typical middle-class suburb dreams of growing up to become just like his idol Vincent Price in this playfully macabre, black-and-white short from director Tim Burton. Vincent Malloy isn't like the other children of the neighborhood. While his classmates are frolicking Read More

House of the Long Shadows

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Desi Arnaz, Jr., John Carradine

Synopsis: In this umpteenth remake of the George M. Cohan-Earl Derr Biggers play Seven Keys to Baldpate, Desi Arnaz Jr. plays Kenneth Magee, the young writer who bets that he can bat out a mystery play in one evening. Magee squirrels himself away in a forbidding old mansion where, unbeknownst to him, a Read More

The Boy Who Left Home to Find out About the Shivers

Synopsis: Narrated by Vincent Price, this story is about a boy who goes to a Transylvanian Castle to learn about fear. This program is not intended for young children. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Monster Club

Actors: Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, John Carradine, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: This quaint horror anthology is loosely based on the works of horror novelist R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- who is portrayed by John Carradine as an active participant in his own tales. The author is invited by a suave vampire (Vincent Price) to accompany him to the title establishment, where he observes Read More

Red Skelton's Christmas Dinner

Synopsis: First telecast as an HBO comedy special on December 14, 1982, Red Skelton's Christmas Dinner teams the beloved comedian with Imogene Coca and Vincent Price. While en route to Toronto's Shakespeare Gardens in hopes of cadging a free meal, hoboes Freddie (Red) and Professor Humperue (Vincent) come Read More

I Go Pogo

Synopsis: This animated feature originally surfaced in theatres-albeit very, very briefly-under the fuller title Pogo for President: I Go Pogo. Walt Kelly's fabled comic-strip characters prepare for the upcoming Okefenokee Swamp elections. The swamp's "Favorite Son" is none other than Pogo Possum, who is Read More

John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body

Actors: John Ritter

Synopsis: In this variety show featuring Three's Company star John Ritter, an all-star cast including Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Howard Hesseman, and Vincent Price perform a hodgepodge of hilarious comedy sketches. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dracula

Synopsis: This documentary video looks at the real-life 15th-century Count Dracula and the fictional, blood-sucking Count Dracula of the screen. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Days of Fury

Synopsis: This documentary video is hosted by Vincent Price and shows actual footage of global disasters. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Scavenger Hunt

Actors: Richard Benjamin, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little

Synopsis: When millionaire Vincent Price dies, he leaves a riotous will which amounts to a scavenger hunt, the winner of which receives the entire willed fortune. So 15 potential heirs are sent on a zany quest where they must outrace and outsmart one another to inherit the big bucks. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Butterfly Ball

Synopsis: This version of the classic 19th-century story includes audio by Roger Glover and animation/live action from Batchelor and Halas. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Madhouse

Actors: Peter Cushing, Vincent Price

Synopsis: This semi-serious horror film represented the first on-screen pairing of icons Vincent Price and Peter Cushing, who play, respectively, aging former horror star Paul Toombes and actor-turned-writer Herbert Flay, who unite in an effort to revive the popularity of Toombes' screen character "Dr. Read More

The Devil's Triangle

Journey into Fear

Synopsis: This remake of the Orson Welles film stars Sam Waterston as a researcher who finds himself entangled in intrigue and danger in Turkey. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

It's Not the Size That Counts

Actors: Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer, Denholm Elliott, Judy Geeson, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: The 1972 British farce Percy was about the world's first penis transplant; Percy's Progress constitutes the sequel, with Leigh Lawson taking over for Hywel Bennett in the leading role. The plot concerns a chemical that contaminates the world's water supply; as a result, every man is rendered Read More

Black Day for Bluebeard

Synopsis: A Black Day for Bluebeard is a typically lighthearted murder yarn from the Snoop Sisters TV series. Vincent Price guests as a washed-up horror movie star suspected of killing his wealthy wife (Tammy Grimes). The grey-haired Snoop sisters (Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick), mystery writers par Read More

Theater of Blood

Actors: Brigid Eric Bates, Stanley Bates, Jack Maguire, Bunny Reed, Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne

Synopsis: The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly capitalizing on his reputation as a master of period horror drawn from "literary" sources. Price portrays Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart, who becomes enraged after Read More

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Actors: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp, Hugh Griffith, John Thaw

Synopsis: This sequel to the stylish 1971 melodrama The Abominable Dr. Phibes once more stars Vincent Price in the title role. Long believed dead, Phibes arises from a state of suspended animation, in search of the means to bring his deceased wife back to the land of the living. Phibes also wears a rubber Read More

The Aries Computer

Synopsis: Another in the line of computer takeover movies, in this one the year is now 2013 and the Earth's population has reached the ten billion mark. In order to keep track of all the details and data necessary to allow for the survival of the world, an Aries Computer has taken over as the ruling Read More

What's a Nice Girl Like You..?

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, an ingenious young woman from the Bronx impersonates a socialite so she can con a confused old man out of his money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mooch Goes to Hollywood

Synopsis: A pint-sized pooch with enormous Hollywood ambition wanders the streets of Hollywood and Malibu beach in search for her big break in this canine adventure for the entire family. After a pair of run-ins with Vincent Price and James Darren, Mooch sneaks into a major movie studio for a visit with Read More

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Actors: Casey Kasem, Vincent Price, Danny Kaye

Synopsis: Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass have produced such animated holiday classics as Rudolph's Shiny New Year, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus Is Coming to Town. The holiday cheer continues with this video. Screenwriter Romeo Muller has adapted the popular children's song into an exciting Easter tale. Read More

An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe

Synopsis: Not really a movie, An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe is a videotaped 90-minute TV special starring Vincent Price. Appearing solo, Price recites several vintage Poe tales, including The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Cask of Amontillado. Price is dressed in period costume and performs Read More

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

Actors: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith

Synopsis: Long thought dead, the victim of a horrible accident, Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) still lives, surrounded by art-deco bric-a-brac and attended by mute beauty Vulnavia (Virginia North). Outwardly normal in appearance, Phibes actually wears a rubber mask, covering his hideously deformed Read More

Scream and Scream Again

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Judy Huxtable, Alfred Marks

Synopsis: Strange and terrible things are afoot and the police are helpless to stop them in this taut, complicated thriller. First a heart attack victim goes to the hospital and awakens to find limbs missing, and later, the body of a rape victim is found with two strange puncture wounds upon her wrist. Read More

Cry of the Banshee

Actors: Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner, Essy Persson, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Mower

Synopsis: The inimitable Vincent Price puts an interesting spin on this otherwise pedestrian witch-hunt exercise -- a rehashing of Witchfinder General (aka The Conqueror Worm) and several of Roger Corman's numerous Poe variations from the previous decade. Here Price plays Edward Whitman, a corrupt, sadistic Read More

More Dead Than Alive

Actors: Clint Walker, Vincent Price, Anne Francis, Paul Hampton, Craig Littler

Synopsis: Cain (Clint Walker), better known throughout the West as "Killer Cain," is released from prison in 1891, after serving 18 years for killing a man, one of over a dozen lives that he'd taken from the age of 16. But he finds that his penalty is hardly paid and his punishment hardly over, even though Read More

The Oblong Box

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister Williamson, Hilary Dwyer, Peter Arne, Harry Baird

Synopsis: When Sir Edward Markham (Alastair Williamson) is horribly disfigured by African natives, he is kept chained and out of sight by his brother Julian (Vincent Price). When Sir Edward escapes, he goes on a killing spree in a desperate attempt to get even with the society that has made him a monstrous Read More

The Trouble with Girls

Actors: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe, Sheree North, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: Walter Hale (Elvis Presley) is the manager of a chautauqua, a traveling show consisting of performances, lectures and entertainment. Along with manager Johnny (Edward Andrews), he helps some young kids break into show business and contends with the union-organizing Charlene (Marilyn Mason). Vincent Price Read More

Spirits of the Dead

Actors: Terence Stamp, Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, James Robertson Justice, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: Released in Europe as Histoires Extraordinaires and Tre Passi Nel Delirio, this is a portmanteau picture, comprised of three supernatural playlets based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. "Metzengerstein," directed by Roger Vadim, stars the director's then-wife Jane Fonda as a medieval woman prone Read More

Witchfinder General

Actors: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell

Synopsis: A corrupt opportunist commits brutal crimes in the name of God and country in this atmospheric period horror tale. In 17th century England, as a people's uprising threatens Lord Cromwell's rule, superstition still rules the land, and the Royalists use this to their advantage by inaugurating a Read More

The Jackals

Actors: Vincent Price

Synopsis: In this adventure, set in the south African Transvaal, six robbers begin victimizing an aged, bitter prospector and his daughter in order to steal his gold. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

F Troop: V is for Vampire

Synopsis: Vincent Price is perfectly cast to type as Count Sforza, a Dracula-like Transylvanian nobleman who has taken up residence in a spooky old mansion near Fort Courage. When Wrangler Jane (Melodie Patterson) suddenly disappears, the troopers are convinced that she's been kidnapped by the sinister Read More

Haus der Tausend Freuden

Actors: Vincent Price, Martha Hyer, George Nader, Ann Smyrner, Wolfgang Kieling

Synopsis: Felix Manderville (Vincent Price) is a traveling magician who manages to make young women disappear in this exploitation thriller. The trouble is, Felix drugs the femmes and sells them to white slave traders with the help of his mind-reading assistant Rebecca (Martha Hyer). Marie Armstrong (Anne Smyrner Read More

Spie Vengono dal Semifreddo

Actors: Vincent Price, Fabian, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Laura Antonelli

Synopsis: The Amazing Dr. G is an alternate title for the Italian-American spoof Dr. Goldfoot and His Girl Bombs. Vincent Price repeats his characterization of the megalomaniac Goldfoot from 1965's Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, and also plays a secondary role as a kidnapped US general. This time Read More

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Actors: Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart, Jack Mullaney

Synopsis: The great Vincent Price obviously had fun with his characterization of Dr. Goldfoot in this campy spy spoof directed by Norman Taurog. With his henchman Igor (Jack Mullaney), the demented doctor builds a machine that mass-produces an army bikini-clad babes. Goldfoot programs his vixens to seduce Read More

War Gods of the Deep

Actors: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Susan Hart, David Tomlinson, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: This sci-fi fantasy film was supposedly inspired by a line from an Edgar Allen Poe poem. It is also the last film made by distinguished director Jacques Tourneur. The adventure begins when the widowed ruler of a sub-oceanic kingdom spies a woman on the land who closely resembles his late wife. Read More

Gordon il Pirata Nero

Synopsis: George Hilton is The Black Pirate in this multinational swashbuckler. Wronged by the aristocracy, Hilton seeks vengeance on the high seas. He proves to be as ruthless as he is courageous, though his heart is briefly softened by love. Claude Dantes and Tony Kendall add to the beefcake quotient in Read More

Taboos of The World

The Last Man on Earth

Actors: Vincent Price, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Tony Cerevi, Franca Bettoja, Emma Danieli, Umberto Rau, Antonio Corevi, Ettore Ribotta

Synopsis: In a post-epidemic nightmare world, scientist Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the only man immune to the plague which has transformed the entire population of the Earth into vampire-like creatures. He becomes the monster slayer that vampire-society fears. Curing one of them, Ruth (Franca Read More

The Tomb of Ligeia

Actors: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Oliver Johnston, Derek Francis

Synopsis: Once again Vincent Price stars for director Roger Corman in The Tomb of Ligeia, the last of Corman's eight Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, a film graced by a script by Robert Towne and moody cinematography by Nicolas Roeg. Price has the creepy lead role of Verden Fell. In 1821, when Verden's wife Read More

The Comedy of Terrors

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone

Synopsis: On the verge of bankruptcy, undertaker Vincent Price hits upon a novel method of drumming up business. Together with his cringing assistant Peter Lorre, Price sneaks into the homes of wealthy old men under cover of night and smothers the sleeping occupants to death--then collects a hefty Read More

The Masque of the Red Death

Actors: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: Though based on two Edgar Allen Poe stories, Masque of the Red Death relies more upon its mood and atmosphere than its story values for its success. During a devastating 12th-century plague called "The Red Death," the decadent, devil-worshipping Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) holds court over a Read More

Pirate Warrior

Synopsis: In this low-budget swashbuckler, a courageous coursair attempts to stop his nemesis from continuing on in the slave trade. The story is also known as Rage of the Buccaneers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Synopsis: When the symphony begins, a magician and his apprentice are brought to life along with an eerie broom. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Raven

Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess

Synopsis: Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales, it appears that the director chose this opportunity to let loose with outright parody; the result is a wonderfully entertaining romp with tongue planted firmly in cheek. The Read More

Chagall

Twice Told Tales

Actors: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Mari Blanchard, Brett Halsey, Richard Denning

Synopsis: This three part horror story is taken from the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Vincent Price stars in all three tales starting with Dr. Heidegger's Experiment". Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) attempts to restore the youth of four elderly friends. In a ghastly and ghoulish scene, a bride in her Read More

Diary of a Madman

Actors: Vincent Price, Nancy Kovack, Chris Warfield, Elaine Devry, Stephen Roberts

Synopsis: Based on the story "The Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, this grim low-budget potboiler stars Vincent Price as Simon Cordier, a ruthless magistrate in 19th-century Paris who becomes possessed by the malevolent spirit (or "horla") of a condemned murderer whom Cordier was forced to kill in self-defense. Read More

The Black Buccaneer

Synopsis: The pirates are essentially the good guys in the Italian swashbuckler Black Buccaneer. Ricardo Montalban, tongue firmly in handsome cheek, plays an ex-slave who turns slave-trader himself. It's all for the purpose of abolishing slavery, of course, but Montalban doesn't let head-villain Vincent Price Read More

The Haunted Palace

Actors: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frank Maxwell, Leo Gordon

Synopsis: The Haunted Palace is a witches' brew of stories written by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft--with the fine hand of sinister scenarist Charles Beaumont stirring the pot. Vincent Price plays two roles this time: A New England doctor burned as a sorcerer in 1745, and the dead man's great-grandson Read More

Confessions of an Opium Eater

Synopsis: Very freely based upon the book by Thomas DeQuincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater is set in San Francisco during the Tong Wars of the 1800s. Lotus is one of a group of women kidnapped from China and brought to the United States, where they are to be traded in exchange for precious opium. Read More

Convicts Four

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Based on the autobiography of convicted killer John Resko (played here by Ben Gazzara), this routine biographical drama looks at the crucial years between 1931 and 1949 in the convict's life. That period begins when Resko is convicted of killing a store owner and is sentenced to life in prison. Read More

Tales of Terror

Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Maggie Pierce

Synopsis: Roger Corman's Tales of Terror stars Vincent Price in a trio of short stories, liberally adapted by Richard Matheson from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The film gets off to a rousing start with "Morella," in which Price's bitterness over the long-ago death of his wife results in tragedy for his Read More

Tower of London

Actors: Sandra Knight, Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman

Synopsis: Roger Corman's stripped-down remake of Universal's 1939 period classic elevates that film's supporting player Vincent Price to the starring role, essayed in the original by Basil Rathbone. Price chews scenery as hunchbacked mad monarch Richard III, who ascends the throne through murder (including Read More

Gordon, il Pirata Nero

Synopsis: Italian swashbucklers have high seas adventures in this pirate outing that tells the tale of a handsome former slave who returns to San Salvador to eradicate anyone who makes money at the expense of another's freedom. Unfortunately, the pirate's schemes go awry and he ends up in prisoner by a Read More

Nefertiti, regina del Nilo

Synopsis: In this Italian costume epic chronicles the exploits of an innocent maiden who lives near Thebes. She is in love with a sculptor but cannot marry him when a high-ranking reveals that he is her father and that she was betrothed at birth to a mentally ill prince slated to soon take over the country. Read More

Master of the World

Actors: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster, David Frankham

Synopsis: Master of the World was adapted by Richard Matheson from two Jules Verne novels, Robur le Conquerant (1896) and its sequel, Maitre du Monde (1904)--with more than a little of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea thrown in. Set in 1868, the story is galvanized by an ominous warning of impending doom Read More

Pit and the Pendulum

Actors: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Anthony Carbone

Synopsis: American-International's standing "haunted castle" set is exhibited to peak advantage in Roger Corman's Pit & the Pendulum. Save for the climax, Richard Matheson's script bears but little resemblance to the Edgar Allen Poe original, though there are pronounced echoes throughout of Poe's The Read More

The Left Fist of David

Synopsis: This is a pilot program for television that was never produced. This is about a pair of art dealers who constantly become involved in mysterious doings. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Fall of the House of Usher

Actors: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe, Bill Borzage

Synopsis: The first of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films, Fall of the House of Usher was originally released as simply House of Usher. Vincent Price stars as the foredoomed Roderick Usher. Living in his decaying family mansion with his young sister Madeline (Myrna Fahey), Roderick does his best to shoo Read More

The Tingler

Actors: Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Philip Coolidge, Patricia Cutts, Pamela Lincoln

Synopsis: As famous for the gimmick with which the film was shown as for its genuinely spine-tingling story, The Tingler follows a pathologist (Vincent Price) as he searches for the cause of a series of deaths and discovers that the victims have a large insect-like creature growing on their spinal chords. Read More

The Return of the Fly

Actors: Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, John Sutton, David Frankham, Dan Seymour

Synopsis: This sequel to Kurt Neumann's The Fly (1958) is peculiar, to say the least. Producer/director Neumann had passed away during the summer of 1958, and the studio needed a sequel. The resulting film, Return of the Fly, was directed by Edward L. Bernds, a filmmaker (and former sound man at Columbia Read More

The Big Circus

Actors: Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming, Kathryn Grant, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Victor Mature, in one of his last leading man performances, plays Hank Whirling, the owner of a financially shaky circus who is trying to get back on his feet, despite cutthroat competition from a rival organization. He also has a younger sister (Kathryn Grant) to watch out for. After arranging Read More

The Bat

Actors: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane

Synopsis: This fourth film version of the Mary Roberts Rinehart-Avery Hopwood stage chestnut The Bat is so old-fashioned in its execution that one might suspect it was intended as "camp" (though that phrase wasn't in common usage in 1959). Agnes Moorehead plays mystery novelist Cornelia Van Gorder, whose Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Moor's Revenge

Synopsis: Vincent Price and Morey Amsterdam guest star in this episode, in which Paladin (Richard Boone) arrives in San Diego at the same time as a travelling Shakespearean troupe. The troupe's nervous manager Bellingham (Amsterdam) hires Paladin to protect leading man Charles Matthews (Price) and leading Read More

House on Haunted Hill

Actors: Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig

Synopsis: A perennial favorite of the "Shock Theatre" TV circuit, House on Haunted Hill stars Vincent Price as sinister gent (you're surprised?) Frederick Loren, who resides in a sinister mansion on a sinister hill, where seven murders have occurred. He makes a proposal to several strangers, offtering Read More

The Fly

Actors: Vincent Price, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: Wealthy Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) is discovered late at night in the factory owned by her husband Andre (David Hedison). Helene stands beside a huge metal press, which has crushed the head and arm of her husband. Held for murder, the near-catatonic Helene refuses to tell anyone--not even Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Perfect Crime

Synopsis: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, this delightfully macabre episode stars Vincent Price as Charles Courtney, a brilliant and pompous detective who takes pride in the fact that he has never made a wrong decision in his career. Courtney has celebrated this winning streak with a well-stocked trophy room Read More

The Story of Mankind

Actors: Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Peter Lorre, Dennis Hopper, Chico Marx

Synopsis: Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of Henrik Willem Van Loon's best- selling historical volume. A Celestial Tribunal has been convened to decide the fate of the Earth after the invention of nuclear weapons, with The Devil (Vincent Price Read More

Serenade

Actors: Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sarita Montiel, Vincent Price, Joseph Calleia

Synopsis: Loosely based on a novel by James M. Cain, this romantic drama centers on the struggles of a humble vineyard worker (real-life opera star Mario Lanza) who rises to become a renowned opera star. In the original book, Damon, the protagonist, has a homosexual relationship with the patron who boosts Read More

The Vagabond King

Actors: Vincent Price, Kathryn Grayson, Oreste, Rita Moreno, Cedric Hardwicke, Walter Hampden

Synopsis: The Rudolf Friml operetta The Vagabond King was first filmed in 1930, with Dennis King in the lead. On both sides of this adaptation, audiences were treated to non-singing versions of the story, bearing titles like The Beloved Rogue and If I Were King. In all instances, the plot remained the same Read More

The Ten Commandments

Actors: James Coburn, Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The story relates the life of Moses, from the time he was discovered in the bullrushes as an infant by the pharoah's daughter, to his long, hard Read More

Night of Execution

While the City Sleeps

Actors: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Sally Forrest, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price

Synopsis: When media mogul Amos Kyne (Robert Warwick) dies, his business, which includes a major newspaper, a television station, and a wire news service, is turned over to his sole heir, his foppish, ne'er do well son (Vincent Price). The younger Kyne has no knowledge of how to run the company his father Read More

Son of Sinbad

Actors: Kim Novak, Dale Robertson, Sally Forrest, Vincent Price, Mari Blanchard

Synopsis: Dale Robertson stars as the Son of Sinbad in this tongue-in-cheek Arabian Nights romp. Hoping to rescue Bagdad from the forces of the dreaded Tamerlaine, Sinbad Jr. enlists the aid of the Khalif (Leon Askin) by promising to deliver the secret of "Greek Fire". To expedite this, he enlists the aid Read More

Dangerous Mission

Actors: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix, Vincent Price

Synopsis: The 3D melodrama Dangerous Mission starts off with a bang when innocent Piper Laurie inadvertently witnesses the murder of her gangster boss. Though she doesn't get a particularly good look at the killer, she knows she's dead meat if she remains in town. Thus, Laurie skeedaddles to Montana's Read More

The Mad Magician

Actors: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Don Randolph

Synopsis: Vincent Price turns on his usual terrifying charm in the role of a homicidal magician in The Mad Magician, a satisfying thriller that was originally shown in 3-D. The actor best known for the luster he brought to many horror films stars as Gallico the Great, an inventor of magic acts who yearns to Read More

Casanova's Big Night

Actors: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Basil Rathbone, Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis: Bob Hope tries to capture the comic magic of his 1946 costume farce Monsieur Beaucaire with the splashy Technicolor romp Casanova's Big Night (filmed in 1952, released in 1954). Set in 18th century Venice, the film casts Hope as Pippo, the humble tailor of notorious ladies' man Casanova (an Read More

House of Wax

Actors: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Paul Picerni

Synopsis: This simplified (but lavish) remake of the 1933 melodrama The Mystery of the Wax Museum was the most financially successful 3-D production of the 1950s. In his first full-fledged "horror" role, Vincent Price plays Prof. Henry Jarrod, the owner of a wax museum, whose partner, Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts Read More

The Las Vegas Story

Actors: Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Hoagy Carmichael, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: The Las Vegas Story features two of Hollywood's most impressive physiques. Victor Mature stars as Dave Andrews, a gambler, while Jane Russell plays Linda, the love of his life. Assuming that Andrews has forgotten her, Linda marries Lloyd Rollins (Vincent Price) on the rebound. All three main Read More

Pictura

Synopsis: Pictura is a feature-length collection of several short-subject documentary celebrations of great artists and their work. The film consists of six separate "episodes," many of these representing a collaboration between Luciano Emmer and another director. "The Lost Paradise," co-directed by Enrico Read More

Four Star Playhouse, Vol. 2

Synopsis: A video of two dramas from the early television series: "The House Always Wins" and "The Left Fist of David." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

This is Your Life: Vincent Price

Adventures of Captain Fabian

Actors: Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Victor Francen, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: La Taverne de N.O. is the French title for the Franco-American costume drama Adventures of Captain Fabian. As sea captain Michael Fabian, Errol Flynn (who also adapted the screenplay from the Robert Shannon novel Fabulous Ann Madlock) is ostensibly the star. Most of the footage, however, is Read More

His Kind of Woman

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine slapstick comedy with excessive violence, resulting in a film that depends more on stereotypes than on plot development. Nick (Raymond Burr), is a deported gang boss who needs Read More

The Baron of Arizona

Actors: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Beulah Bondi, Vladimir Sokoloff, Reed Hadley

Synopsis: Samuel Fuller wrote and directed this lively drama based on the real-life adventures of James Addison Reavis, one of the most ambitious swindlers of the 19th Century. In 1871, Reavis (played by Vincent Price) began hatching an elaborate scheme to claim the Arizona territory (then three decades Read More

Champagne for Caesar

Actors: Ronald Colman, Celeste Holm, Vincent Price, Barbara Britton, Art Linkletter

Synopsis: This comedy stars Ronald Colman as Beauregard Bottomley, a self-styled genius in need of a job. He applies for a position with a large soap company, but Burnbridge Walters (Vincent Price), the firm's willfully eccentric president, falls into a "trance" while interviewing Beauregard and decides not Read More

Curtain Call at Cactus Creek

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Gale Storm, Walter Brennan, Vincent Price, Eve Arden

Synopsis: Curtain Call at Cactus Creek is an agreeable combination of the western, comedy and musical genres. Donald O'Connor plays Edward Timmons, a mild-mannered stagehand for a travelling repertory troupe. Edward is in love with ingenue Julie Martin (Gale Storm), but there's no love lost between Edward Read More

The Christmas Carol

Actors: Vincent Price

Bagdad

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Paul Christian, Vincent Price, John Sutton, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: Maureen O'Hara plays the daughter of a Sheikh who returns from being educated in London, only to find her father is dead and his palace looted. Handsome Paul Christian is suspected of the murder, as is lecherous pasha Vincent Price, but the real villain may be one of the Sheikh's most trusted Read More

The Bribe

Actors: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, John Hodiak

Synopsis: Federal agent Robert Taylor journeys to a mythical South American community, there to break up a war-surplus contraband racket. American playboy Vincent Price is the brains of the outfit, aided and abetted by the disreputable Charles Laughton and John Hodiak. Ava Gardner, Hodiak's wife, takes over Read More

Up in Central Park

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Dick Haymes, Vincent Price, Albert Sharpe, Tom Powers

Synopsis: The Dorothy Fields-Sigmund Romberg Broadway musical Up in Central Park has been retooled as a vehicle for a pleasantly plump Deanna Durbin. Set in New York in the 1870s, the film casts Durbin as hoydenish Irish immigrant Rosie Moore, who becomes the romantic bone of contention between muckraking Read More

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange

Synopsis: It seems that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), in league with a beautiful but diabolical lady scientist (Lenore Aubert), needs a "simple, pliable" brain with which to reactivate Frankenstein's creature (Glenn Strange). The "ideal" brain belongs to the hapless Lou Costello, whom the lady doctor woos to Read More

The Three Musketeers

Actors: Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in Technicolor. Gene Kelly romps his way through the role of D'Artagnan, the upstart cadet who joins veteran Musketeers Athos (Van Heflin), Porthos (Gig Young) and Aramis (Robert Coote) Read More

Rogues' Regiment

Actors: Dick Powell, Märta Torén, Vincent Price, Stephen McNally, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Even when decked out in a Foreign Legion uniform, Dick Powell looked, talked and acted like an urban private eye. In Rogues' Regiment, American secret agent Whit Corbett (Dick Powell) joins the Legion in order to track down Nazi war criminal Carl Reicher (Stephen McNally) in French Indo-China. Read More

The Web

Actors: Ella Raines, Edmond O'Brien, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Maria Palmer

Synopsis: Bob Regan (Edmond O'Brien) -- a small-time attorney from the wrong side of the tracks who nonetheless has a lot of dedication -- is representing a vegetable pushcart owner (Tito Vuolo) in a damage suit against multi-millionaire Andrew Colby (Vincent Price). It seems Colby's car wrecked the man's Read More

Moss Rose

Actors: Norman Ainsley, Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Harry Allen, Ethel Barrymore, Billy Bevan, Vincent Price, Margo Woode, Clifford Brooke

Synopsis: A woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim in this suspense story set in turn-of-the-century London. Belle Adair (Peggy Cummins) is a struggling showgirl willing to use her charms to snare an eligible bachelor. When her roommate is murdered Read More

The Long Night

Actors: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: Based upon the French film Le Jour Se Lève, The Long Night opens in the in the midst of a dire situation: ex-serviceman Joe Adams (Henry Fonda) finds himself holed up in his apartment, surrounded by policemen who soon open fire in a relentless and determined manner. Adams has been accused of Read More

Dragonwyck

Actors: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Spring Byington, Scott Elliott, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Ruth Ford, Anne Revere, Keith Hitchcock

Synopsis: Years before he became the leading star in horror movies, Vincent Price starred in this gothic thriller based on the best-selling novel by Anya Seton. Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price) is a wealthy feudal heir of Dutch ancestry living in New York's Hudson Valley in the 1840s. Nicholas has come to Read More

Leave Her to Heaven

Actors: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips

Synopsis: Gene Tierney portrays a beautiful but unstable woman who marries successful novelist Cornel Wilde. Tierney wants to spend all her time with her new husband, but finds it impossible to do so thanks to his work and the frequent visits of family and friends. When Wilde's crippled younger brother (Darryl Hickman Read More

Shock!

Actors: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Anabel Shaw, Michael Dunne

Synopsis: In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross (Vincent Price) kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw). As Janet attempts to convince her husband (Frank Latimore) of the doctor's dastardly Read More

A Royal Scandal

Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Vincent Price

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch was the original director for A Royal Scandal, but illness forced him to bow out; his replacement was Otto Preminger, who did his utmost to retain the "Lubitsch touch." Based on a play by Lajos Biro and Melchior Lengyel, the film dwells upon a fictional incident in the life of Read More

Guest in the House

Actors: Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon, Ruth Warrick, Scott McKay

Synopsis: A Guest in the House is an involving psychological melodrama, well directed and acted, concerning a young woman's obsessive love. Evelyn (Anne Baxter), an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor (Scott McKay). There she meets and falls in love with Read More

In Old New Mexico

Actors: Duncan Renaldo, Martin Garralaga, Gwen Kenyon, Norman Willis

Synopsis: The second of Monogram's 1945 trio of "Cisco Kid" westerns, In Old New Mexico stars Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and Martin Garralaga as Pancho. The plot concentrates on heroine Ellen (Gwen Kenyon), a nurse accused of murder. Gallant Cisco "kidnaps" Ellen from the authorities, then sets about to prove Read More

The Keys of the Kingdom

Actors: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rosa Stradner, Roddy McDowall, Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis: Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck. This is the 137-minute chronicle of a Scottish priest (Peck), who is assigned a mission in China. Never very focused in his life or work, the priest finds plenty to keep his Read More

Wilson

Actors: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ruth Nelson, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Producer Darryl F. Zanuck had high hopes that Wilson would immortalize him in the manner that Gone With the Wind did for David O. Selznick. The notion of bringing the life story of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States, to the big screen was a labor of love for Zanuck, and Read More

Laura

Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex series of backstage intrigues and hostilities, the film was ultimately credited to director Otto Preminger and cameraman Joseph LaShelle (who won an Read More

The Eve of St. Mark

Actors: Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Michael O'Shea, Vincent Price, Ruth Nelson

Synopsis: Maxwell Anderson's Broadway play Eve of St. Mark is here brought to the screen by 20th Century-Fox. William Eythe and Anne Baxter are young lovers whose plans for the future are interrupted by the pre-war military draft. Eythe is shipped to the Philippines, where he is trapped on a small and Read More

The Song of Bernadette

Actors: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing up in the tiny French village of Lourdes in the 19th century, Bernadette (Jennifer Jones) experiences a vision of the Virgin Mary in a nearby grotto. At least, she believes Read More

The House of the Seven Gables

Actors: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, Dick Foran

Synopsis: This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the Pyncheon family stole, cheated, lied, and murdered their way to wealth. But within the hearts of the family's bloodline lay fear of the curse of Matthew Maule, a man they Read More

Hudson's Bay

Actors: Paul Muni, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, John Sutton, Virginia Field

Synopsis: This sweeping drama chronicles the foundation a Canadian institution: the Hudson's Bay Trading Company. Set in the 17th century when the fur trade was at its peak the story centers on Radisson, a far-sighted entrepreneurial fur trapper, and his sidekick who dream of establishing a major trading Read More

The Invisible Man Returns

Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the title role. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Price begs doctor John Sutton to inject him with the invisibility serum invented by Claude Rains in the first film. Sutton Read More

Green Hell

Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Vincent Price, Joan Bennett, Alan Hale, George Sanders, John Howard

Synopsis: Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an archeologist leading a team of researchers -- Richardson (Vincent Price), Loren (Alan Hale), Forrester (George Sanders), and Scott (John Howard) -- who are exploring the jungles of Read More

Brigham Young

Actors: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy, Jane Darwell

Synopsis: Inspired by the true story of the leader of the Mormon Church, this film features Dean Jagger in the title role. The members of the Church of Latter Day Saints are subjected to religious persecution by the people of Nauvoo, Illinois, where they've settled; so under the leadership of Brigham Young Read More

The Tower of London

Actors: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter

Synopsis: Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly referred to as a horror film. Yes, a second-billed Boris Karloff does stomp about on a club-foot as the Duke of Glouchester's chief executioner, Mord, but Karloff's presence Read More

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Actors: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Vincent Price, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale

Synopsis: It is no secret that Bette Davis and Errol Flynn were at each other's throats throughout the filming of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. Boiled down to essentials: Davis felt that Flynn was unprofessional, while Flynn thought that Davis took herself too damned seriously. Besides, Davis Read More

Service De Luxe

Actors: Constance Bennett, Vincent Price, Charlie Ruggles, Helen Broderick, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: In this frothy comedy-drama, a businesswoman owns a successful service bureau for the filthy rich. Her service does everything from handling mundane finances to putting on weddings. Her most recent client wants her to prevent his rube of a nephew from coming to New York to visit him. She does her Read More

Hollywood Half Hour / The Star & the Story

Fun Learning: Chocolate Princess and Other Children's Stories

Ruddigore

Synopsis: According to the curse of Ruddigore, the Lords of Ruddigore have to pull off a crime a day or they'll perish painfully. The new Lord of Ruddigore doesn't quite buy all this and wants to make some fundamental changes; he runs into difficulties with the Ruddigor clan. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

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