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Bookmark this pageThe Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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From Time Out Film Guide
Price and Lorre are somewhat over-enthusiastic undertakers in Richard Matheson's disappointingly scripted, self-conscious horror spoof set in New England in the 1890s. With credentials of this calibre, the movie could hardly fail, but it comes perilously close. On the other hand, you've never seen so many scene-stealers together in their natural environment (notably Karloff as Price's senile sleeping partner, and Rathbone as his landlord, a would-be Shakespearean actor with cataleptic tendencies). And Price, of course, deserves a knighthood: Sir Vincent, knight of the long knives.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Producer: James H Nicholson, Samuel Z Arkoff
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Joe E Brown, Joyce Jameson, Buddy Mason, Beverley Hills, Linda Rogers full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 88 mins
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