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Vincent Price (Actor), Peter Lorre (Actor), Jacques Tourneur (Director) Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
  • Directors: Jacques Tourneur
  • Format: CD+DVD, Dolby, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Arrow Video
  • DVD Release Date: 16 Feb. 2015
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00Q4Y3C6A
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,036 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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  • From Jacques Tourneur, director of numerous horror classics including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and Night of the Demon, comes The Comedy of Terrors a gleefully macabre tale which brings together genre greats Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff.
  • Price plays Waldo Trumbull, a perpetually inebriated, down-on-his-luck undertaker who has struck on an interesting way to boost business by hastening the deaths of those whom he buries. When landlord Mr. Black (Basil Rathbone) threatens to put him out on the street for falling behind with the rent, Trumbull, together with his reluctant and bumbling assistant Felix Gillie (Lorre), hatches an ill-advised plan to kill two birds with one stone , so to speak...
  • The penultimate directorial effort from Tourneur, The Comedy of Terrors bears many of the hallmarks of the master filmmaker s earlier works, whilst adding a healthy dash of humour to the proceedings. Careful you might just die laughing!

    • SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:

    • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements by MGM
    • Original Mono 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
    • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
    • Audio Commentary with Price historian David Del Valle
    • Extensive archive interview with Vincent Price
    • Whispering in Distant Chambers: The Nightfall of Jacques Tourneur a specially-commissioned video essay by David Cairns, which charts the career of director Tourneur
    • Richard Matheson Storyteller an archive featurette on the Comedy of Terrors writer
      • Original Theatrical Trailer
    • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper
    • Collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Chris Fujiwara, author of Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, illustrated with original archive stills and posters.

      • Review

      delivers a number of hearty laughs along the way --Blu-ray.com

      grand slapstick, and the performances are funnier the more often you see it --DVDLaser

      You can't go wrong with the creepy combo of Price, Lorre, Rathbone, and Rhubarb the Cat! --StaciWilson.com

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    5.0 out of 5 starsSuperb!!!!
    By BlackBrigand TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 6 Mar. 2016
    Format: DVD Verified Purchase
    Back in the 1980s I replaced most of my collection of 8mm movies with VHS and I have been going through a same process of upgrading to DVD for the last few years. This has given me the excuse to revisit many films that I have not seen for some time. This film is not one of them...it has been a firm favourite since 1961 and I have watched this movie again virtually every year since.

    Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone show their supreme talent for tongue in cheek comedy delivering a gently humorous macabre horror spoof of the highest quality.

    A drunken Vincent Price runs his father in law's funeral parlour in 19th Century New England, with his hapless assistant Peter Lorre, his ancient father in law Boris Karloff and his wife Joyce Jameson. When business is slow, Price devises a means of drumming up business...murdering a few clients. Price and Lorre play off each other perfectly as a macabre Laurel and Hardy with Rathbone providing hilarious cameos as a victim who refuses to die. Watch for the brilliant cameo by Joe E Brown.

    Sadly this was Lorre's final film, he died two months after completion; Karloff only made a couple of further movies during his retirement back in Britain.

    Even my wife likes this film and she absolutely hates horror movies, it stands alone as either a classic horror or a classic comedy.
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    5.0 out of 5 starsThe comedy of terrors
    By Sarah Moorin on 7 Mar. 2010
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    I love this film because it reunited vincent price,boris karloff and peter lorre that was really good because these are three of my fav actors.Now this is totally different to any vincent price film because it is so funny and all his other films are serious and scary and this one is so funny.Anybody who loves these actors or whose new to seeing these actors this is a great place to start. More info about it.
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    5.0 out of 5 starsClassic Horror Comedy
    By M. Dowden HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on 6 April 2010
    Format: DVD Verified Purchase
    At last I have now got a copy of this film; I have seen it quite a few times on tv but now I can watch it whenever I like. I am always amazed when I find someone who has never seen or even heard of this, as it is so funny.

    Set somewhere in New England in the latter part of the nineteenth century Vincent Price has taken over the proprietorship of a funeral parlour from his father-in-law, played by Boris Karloff. For his assistant he has Peter Lorre. With business being slow there is only one answer, drum up your own trade, but things are never that simple. With Price drinking all the time, trying to poison his father-in-law and despairing of his wife's singing, he doesn't ham up his role as he does do magnificently in other movies. Instead the hamming up goes to Basil Rathbone in a fantastic cameo role of Mr Black. Mr Black is a cataleptic and just when you think he is dead, up he pops again. Added to this he keeps spouting random lines from 'Macbeth', bringing in an unforgettable performance.

    If you have never seen this before then you don't know what you are missing, this is a brilliant black comedy.
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    5.0 out of 5 starsadd another half star to rating
    By Mr. K. White on 15 Nov. 2011
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    A glorious tour de farce with the best acting/actors playing it up for real. Truly a classic, immortal! it will be great forever...
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    4.0 out of 5 starsThe Comedy of Terrors
    By Ken McCormac on 23 Jan. 2010
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    Great horror-style comedy with struggling undertakers Vincent Price and Peter Lorre with Boris Karloff.Money,lust and alcohol all play a part in this murderous plot with veteran Basil Rathbone stealing the acting honours with his near cameo part.A late-night giggle.
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    3.0 out of 5 starsDecent enough and an all star cast to boot.
    By Colonel Decker on 10 Dec. 2014
    Format: DVD
    What a superb cast- Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone- writing from Richard Matheson and directed by Jacques Tourneur. The acting is superb as you would expect from such a team. This is more of a comedy than a horror, indeed there is nothing horrific about the movie. Unfortunetly the jokes don't always work and the plot is ultra thin, However take this as a theatre play which it is certainlly made this way, and just enjoy the fact that we had these great actors all in one film. Writer Matheson would later go on to say after the films disappointing box office return that the title pulled customers away from the movie- neither underlining that it is horror, or comedy.
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    5.0 out of 5 starsFor the last time...
    By Autonome on 28 Feb. 2013
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    It would be the last time that genius actors Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff would star together, following their amazing success in "The Raven" and "Tales of Terror".
    Richard Matheson was very keen to write a sequel to "Comedy..." but unfortunately the poor box office success of the film didn't warrant it. On top of this, Peter Lorre died on March 23 1964, almost exactly two months after the release of this film.
    But I tell you, this infernal trio left on a high. "The Comedy of Terror" is an amazingly funny, extremely well-performed film, but the actors had their job made tremendously easier by the jewel script of Richard Matheson. The minor flaws we had spotted in "The Raven" have all but disappeared here and Matheson writes a completely bonkers plot, with outrageous pieces of dialogue. Once the script is written, Matheson can unleash his actors in front of the camera and it is a complete riot. The three most impressive in this team work are probably Boris Karloff, subdued and objectively "absent" as the ancient of the family (whom he was), Basil Rathbone, who spends the movie trying NOT to be dead by uttering MacBeth quotes without interruption and the insanely beautiful and funny Joyce Jameson, the lungs who wish they were an opera singer. The cat is also very good. Price and Lorre do their Laurel-Hardy type routine with genius but people around them are as good as they are so: sit back, enjoy and lament the fact that they don't do it this way anymore...
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