Tales of terror, the pit and the pendulum, the raven
(2011)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/HORROR/TALES

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/HORROR/TALES Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[Beverly Hills, Calif.] : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2011
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (255 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
011891702140
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from disc surface

Tales of terror (1962): 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 facts in the case of M. Valdemar," the dying M. Valdemar employs a hypnotist to put him in a trance to spare him the pain of dying. Instead, M. Valdemar winds up stuck between the world of the living and the dead, and under the control of the hypnotist

Adapted from stories by Edgar Allan Poe

The pit and the pendulum: Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the brutest torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive! Strange things then start to happen in the Medina castle

Originally released as motion pictures from 1961-1963

The raven: A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help

Tales of terror: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Debra Paget, Joyce Jameson

The pit and the pendulum: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Anthony Carbone

The raven: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

MPAA Rating: Not Rated

DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Pro Logic III

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