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Tales of terror: Three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and...

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Uniform Title:Tales of terror (Motion picture : 1962)
Other Authors: Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013 (Screenwriter), Price, Vincent, 1911-1993 (Actor), Kerr, John, 1931-2013 (Actor), Steele, Barbara, 1937- (actress.), Anders, Luana, 1938-1996 (actress.), Carbone, Anthony, 1927- (Actor), Pierce, Maggie, 1931- (actress.), Gage, Leona, 1939-2010 (actress.), Lorre, Peter (Actor), Rathbone, Basil, 1892-1967 (Actor), Paget, Debra, 1933- (actress.), Jameson, Joyce, 1932-1987 (actress.), Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Language Notes:English dialogue.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2012?]
Edition:Ultimate collector's edition.
Series:Vincent Price, master of manace
Subjects:
Revenge > Drama.
Murder > Drama.
Hypnotists > Drama.
Young men > England > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Horror films.
Film adaptations.
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Summary:Tales of terror: Three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The case of M. Valdemar," the dying M. Valdemar employs a hypnotist to put him in a trance and winds up stuck between the world of the living and the dead, under the control of the hypnotist.
Pit and the pendulum: A young Englishman visits a forbidding Spanish castle to investigate his sister's mysterious death and uncovers a sinister plot by his sister's husband to bury her alive.
Item Description:"Distributed by TGG Direct under license from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios"--Disc surface.
Tales of terror originally produced as a motion picture in 1962.
Pit and the pendulum originally produced as a motion picture in 1961.
Tales of terror based on three stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Pit and the pendulum based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (approximately 80 min, approximately 80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital Pro Logic II sound format.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Tales of terror: director of photography, Floyd Crosby ; music, Les Baxter ; editor, Anthony Carras.
Pit and the pendulum: director of photography, Norman Warwick ; editing, Tristam Cones ; original music composed & arranged by Basil Kirchin in association with Jack Nathan.