Roger Corman made a movie loosely based on "The Raven", starring Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, I believe Basil Rathbone, and a young Jack Nicholson. It was played for laughs, and was an absolute hoot. Opened with Price bewailing his 'lost Lenore' with a raven sitting in the window. And when Price cried out "Where is my lost Lenore?", the Raven [in Lorre's voice] responded "How the Hell should I know!".
Quote: PzLdr wrote in post #2Roger Corman made a movie loosely based on "The Raven", starring Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, I believe Basil Rathbone, and a young Jack Nicholson. It was played for laughs, and was an absolute hoot. Opened with Price bewailing his 'lost Lenore' with a raven sitting in the window. And when Price cried out "Where is my lost Lenore?", the Raven [in Lorre's voice] responded "How the Hell should I know!".
sounds funny and such a great cast of spooky people!
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Quote: PzLdr wrote in post #2Roger Corman made a movie loosely based on "The Raven", starring Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, I believe Basil Rathbone, and a young Jack Nicholson. It was played for laughs, and was an absolute hoot. Opened with Price bewailing his 'lost Lenore' with a raven sitting in the window. And when Price cried out "Where is my lost Lenore?", the Raven [in Lorre's voice] responded "How the Hell should I know!".
sounds funny and such a great cast of spooky people!
Corman did a whole series of Poe based movies, mostly with Price, mostly serious: "The Pit and the Pendulum", etc. But this one was for laughs. The non-Poe Corman movie I remember best was "Attack of the Crab Monsters", a rip off on "Them", where scientists on a South Pacific Island run into giant man eating crabs [with faces that included Percy Dove Tonsil glasses.]. When the crabs ate somebody, they absorbed their intellect. Naturally the first guy killed was French, so for the rest of the movie you had this 30' crab chasing people saying, "Eh, Louie!".
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