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The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1964
Running Times: 84 mins
Format: Pathécolor 35mm
Panavision (anamorphic)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Alta Vista Productions/AIP
Executive Producers: Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson
Producer: Anthony Carras
Associate Producer: Richard Matheson
Production Manager: Joseph Wonder
SCRIPT
Script: Richard Matheson
DIRECTION
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Assistant Director: Robert Agnew
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Floyd Crosby
Lighting Coordinator: Harry Sundby
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Anthony Carras
Assistant Film Editor: Harold Hazen
MUSIC
Music: Les Baxter
Music Editors: Eve Newman, Milton Lustig
Music Coordinator: Al Simms
SOUND
Sound: Don Rush
Sound Editors: James Nelson, Kathleen Rose
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Carlie Taylor
Hair: Betty Pedretti
Costume Designer: Marjorie Corso
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Pat Dinga
VISUAL EFFECTS
Special Photographic Effects: Butler-Glouner
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer/Art Director: Daniel
Haller
Set Decorator: Harry Reif
Property Master: Karl Brainard
OTHER CREW
Production Assistant: Jack W. Cash
STUNTS
Stunts: Jesse Wayne
CAST
Vincent Price (Waldo Trumbull)
Peter Lorre (Felix Gillie)
Boris Karloff (Amos
Hinchley)
Joyce Jameson (Amaryllis Trumbull)
Joe E. Brown (Cemetary Keeper)
Beverly Hills (real name: Beverly Powers) (Mrs Phipps)
Basil Rathbone (John F. Black)
Alan DeWitt (Black's servant)
Buddy Mason (Mr Phipps)
Douglas Williams (doctor)
Linda Rogers (Phipps' maid)
Luree Holmes (girl)
Paul Barselow (real name: Paul Barselou) (Riggs)
PLOT SUMMARY
Waldo Trumbull is an undertaker with a problem
– he owes a year's back rent and has no customers. So
he's forced to improvise and starts murdering people to drum
up new business.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: AIP
Video Distributors: HBO; MGM; Orion Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Image Entertainment Inc
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Spain
Rating: T
Sweden
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1964
January
22: USA – theatrical release
1967
September
27: Denmark – theatrical release
1968
August
5: Sweden – theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
They put new life in the undertaking business!
A grave case of greed gone too far!
A macabre romp featuring 4 great names from the Horror Hall of Fame!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Il clan del terrore - Italian title
La comedia de los horrors - Spanish title
La comèdia dels horrors – Catalan Spanish
title
The Graveside Story
Komödie des Grauens - German title
Liget går amok - Danish title
Operation i skräck - Swedish title
Ruhe Sanft GmbH - German title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
Vincent Price: The Sinister Image (1988) KEYWORDS
alcoholism; axes; buried alive; cats; coffin; eviction; funerals; poison;
undertakers
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