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Tales of Terror (1962)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1962
Running Times: 89 mins
Format: colour 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: Roger Corman
Production Manager: Bartlett A. Carre
Unit Manager: Robert Agnew
SCRIPT
Script: Richard Matheson
Stories: Morella, The Black Cat,
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar and A
Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
DIRECTION
Director: Roger Corman
Assistant Director: Jack Bohrer
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Floyd Crosby
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Anthony Carras
MUSIC
Music: Les Baxter
Music Editor: Eve Newman
Music Coordinator: Al Simms
SOUND
Sound Editor: Jack Woods
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Lou LaCava
Hair: Ray Forman
Wardrobe Supervisor: Marjorie Corso SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Pat Dinga
VISUAL EFFECTS
Optical Effects: Ray Mercer
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Bartlett A. Carre, Daniel Haller
Set Decorator: Harry Reif
Property Master: Richard M. Rubin CAST
Morella
Vincent Price (Locke)
Maggie Pierce (Lenora Locke)
Leona Gage (Morella Locke)
Edmund Cobb (driver)
The Black Cat
Vincent Price (Fortunato)
Peter Lorre (Montresor Herringbone)
Joyce Jameson (Annabel Herringbone)
John Hackett, Lennie Weinrib (policemen)
Wally Campo (Barman Wilkins)
Alan DeWitt (chairman of wine society)
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
Vincent Price (Valdemar)
Basil Rathbone (Carmichael)
Debra Paget (Helene Valdemar)
David Frankham (Dr Elliot James)
Scott Brown (uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
A trilogy of stories adapted from the stories
of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited but feelings
over the the death of his wife still run high with catastrophic and
horrific results; jealousy rears its ugly head when a down-and-out
challenges a wine devotee to a drinking competition and falls for
his wife; at the point of dying, an agonised man is hypnotized to
keep him in a limbo between life and death.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: AIP
Video Distributors: MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc; Orion Home Video;
Warner Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Image (ID 2600 OR – double bill with
The Premature Burial (1962))
DVD Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment (1000987)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: 13
Sweden
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1962
July
4: USA – theatrical release
1963
February
23: Denmark – theatrical release
25: Sweden – theatrical release
2000
September
19: USA - DVD release (MGM Home Entertainment (1000987))
POSTER TAGS
A Trilogy of Shock and Horror!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Cuentos de terror – Argentinian
/ Venezuelan title
Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Terror
L'empire de la terreur – French
title
Der Grauenvolle Mr X – German title
Historias de terror – Spanish title
Kauhutarinoita – Finnish title
Poe's Tales of Terror
I racconti del terrore – Italian title
Rædslernes trio – Danish title
Schwarze Geschichten – German title
En studie i skräck – Swedish title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Due occhi diabolici (1990)
Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Matinee (1993)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Madhouse (1974)
Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature (2001) KEYWORDS
anthologies, cats, fire, hallucinations, hypnotism, possession, short
stories into film, wine
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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