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The comedy of terrors ; the raven [videorecording].

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 4005411 | MGM Home EntertainmentPublication details: Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, c2003.Description: 1 videodisc (169 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0792857496
  • 9780792857495
Other title:
  • At head of title: Midnite movies double feature
Subject(s):
Contents:
Side A: Comedy of terrors (ca. 83 min.) -- Special features: 'Richard Matheson Storyteller: The comedy of terrors' [featurette] (ca. 10 min.) -- original theatrical trailer ; Side B: The Raven (ca. 86 min.) -- Special features: 'Richard Matheson Storyteller: The raven' [featurette] (ca. 7 min.) -- 'Corman's comedy of Poe' [featurette] (ca. 8 min.) -- Promotional record [audio with still photos] (ca. 6 min.) -- original theatrical trailer.
Production credits:
  • Comedy of Terrors: Producers, James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff ; director, Jacques Tourneur.
  • Raven: Produced and directed by Roger Corman ; screenplay by Richard Matheson.
Cast: Comedy of Terrors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Rhubarb the Cat, Joe E. Brown, Basil Rathbone.Cast: Raven: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Jack Nicholson.Summary: Comedy of Terrors: The Hinchley and Trumbull Funeral Parlor is on the verge of financial ruin. Hinchley, 92 years old and senile, had entrusted the business to his lazy, drunken son-in-law, Trumbull. To make matters worse, their landlord is now threatening to evict them. Forced to act, Trumbull devises a murderous scheme that will drum up new "customers" and pay back his landlord at the same time.Summary: Raven: Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Craven is visited one night by a talking raven and learns that it is really his fellow magician, Dr. Bedlo, who has been transformed into a bird by the evil Scarabus. The raven further unravels the devious scheme of Craven's wife, who has tricked her husband into believing her dead so she could desert him for the comforts of Scarabus' wealth and power.
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DVD.

Comedy of Terrors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Rhubarb the Cat, Joe E. Brown, Basil Rathbone.

Raven: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Jack Nicholson.

Comedy of Terrors: Producers, James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff ; director, Jacques Tourneur.

Raven: Produced and directed by Roger Corman ; screenplay by Richard Matheson.

Videodisc release of two 1963 motion pictures by Orion Pictures Corporation.

Not rated.

Comedy of Terrors: The Hinchley and Trumbull Funeral Parlor is on the verge of financial ruin. Hinchley, 92 years old and senile, had entrusted the business to his lazy, drunken son-in-law, Trumbull. To make matters worse, their landlord is now threatening to evict them. Forced to act, Trumbull devises a murderous scheme that will drum up new "customers" and pay back his landlord at the same time.

Raven: Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. Craven is visited one night by a talking raven and learns that it is really his fellow magician, Dr. Bedlo, who has been transformed into a bird by the evil Scarabus. The raven further unravels the devious scheme of Craven's wife, who has tricked her husband into believing her dead so she could desert him for the comforts of Scarabus' wealth and power.

Side A: Comedy of terrors (ca. 83 min.) -- Special features: 'Richard Matheson Storyteller: The comedy of terrors' [featurette] (ca. 10 min.) -- original theatrical trailer ; Side B: The Raven (ca. 86 min.) -- Special features: 'Richard Matheson Storyteller: The raven' [featurette] (ca. 7 min.) -- 'Corman's comedy of Poe' [featurette] (ca. 8 min.) -- Promotional record [audio with still photos] (ca. 6 min.) -- original theatrical trailer.