- Actors: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank Maxwell, Leo Gordon
- Directors: Roger Corman
- Writers: Leo Gordon, Charles Beaumont, F. Amos Powell, Francis Ford Coppola, H.P. Lovecraft
- Producers: Edward Small
- Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
- DVD Release Date: 26 Aug 2003
- Run Time: 167 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00009PY4D
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- #71 in Film & TV > Horror > Ghosts & Hauntings
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
This is a super buy since you get two films from the Horror team of Vincent Price and Roger Corman.
King of the Quickies, Roger Corman and Price made a good stab working their way through the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, making one film right after another based on horror tales. Near the end, they tossed in one loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
Price plays the lead in duo as Charles Dexter Ward his is distant relative, Joseph Curwen, a warlock.
The movie opens, in a small misty shrouded town with a girl going to the castle of Curwen. She is followed there by the villagers, but Curwen claims she came to visit of her own free will. However, the girl can only answer in barest of replies, so they know she is under Curwen's bewitchment. The village drag Curwen out into the night and kill him.
It moves to over 100 years later, when Charles Dexter Ward and his beautiful bridge come to claim the estate as his inheritance. They find the village strange, almost to the point of being hostile, and are oddly chilled when they see so many of the children are deformed. They learn from a kindly doctor there, the villager are cursed because of Curwen - who just happened to be the spitting image of Ward. Not there long at the Castle, when Ward suddenly begins to act funny. Could it be?
A wonderful performance by one of the most beautiful women to ever grace the screen, Debra Pagent, with the great character actors, Leo Gordon, Elisha Cook and Lon Chaney, Jr., this is very low toned horror film that really needs a second - and third - look.
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The second film in the nice double feature is The Tower of London, another flick that teamed Price with director Roger Corman. The story for this film came from the pen of Leo Gordan (actor in the other film The Haunted Palace) and has his younger brother Bruce Gordon (The Television's Untouchables) as the Earl of Buckingham. Price plays Richard of Gloucester, later to be Richard III haunted by the people he murdered to get to the throne of England (including the Little Princes). Odd note, this is the second time Vincent Price made The Tower of London. In 1939 he appeared in a film with the same title, also based on Richard III, with Basil Rathbone playing Richard and Price playing Duke of Clarence.
Great fun for Price fans at a great price!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
just to let you know this great double feature has two very nice featurettes one for each film."The Haunted palace" has an interview with director/producer Roger Corman(11:17) and "The tower of London"has an interview with producer,and brother of Roger,Gene Corman(14:03),both are interesting and informative with both men talking about their work on each of their movies.
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The Haunted Palace is if course nothing to do with Poe but takes its inspiration from HP Lovecraft's weird and wonderful writings. Beautifully shot in scope and blessed with an atmospheric set and some truly macabre details, the film is a genre classic which will delight fans even if it is not to the taste of modern audiences. The Tower of London is a nice bonus but not quite in the same league although it's hammy pyrotechnics are quite fun. Still at these prices this DVD is a terrific bargain!
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scary film very scary
This is an old classic from 1966 It really does make you curl under the duvet. Vincent Price as always a great actor with his scared like happenings. Read more
Published 14 months ago by magimoo
Brilliant! Two great lesser known films
The classic Vincent Price/Roger Corman horror films are some of my absolute favourites. The Fall of the House of Usher has long been my personal fave, but there is now another to... Read more
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