Director
Roger Corman
Music (original)
Les Baxter
Cast
Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr
Edition 2000
80'
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1961
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Mystery, Drama, Horror
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Dialogue:
English
Vincent Price stars as Nicholas Medina, the son of a notorious Spanish Inquisition torturer. Nicholas' wife Elizabeth has died under mysterious circumstances, prompting Elizabeth's brother Francis to arrive at the Medina castle to investigate. The tormented Medina believes that Elizabeth was buried alive, and is convinced that he can hear his wife's voice calling out to him. In truth, Elizabeth has faked her death, part of a plan concocted with her lover Dr. Leon to drive Medina mad. She succeeds in this goal, pushing Medina over the brink. Convinced that he's his own father, Medina dons Inquisition robes, straps Francis to a table, and arranges for a huge steel-bladed pendulum to slowly, slooooowwly descend on his helpless victim. (Hal Erickson)
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Credits
Directors
Roger Corman
Music (original)
Les Baxter
Cast
Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr
Scenario
Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe
Director of Photography
Floyd Crosby
Editors
Anthony Carras
Producers
Roger Corman
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
"The Pit and the Pendulum" (Edgar Allan Poe)
Year
1961
Filmography
Roger Corman
Five Guns West (1955), Apache Woman (1955), Day the World Ended (1955), Swamp Women (1956), Gunslinger (1956), The Oklahoma Woman (1956), It Conquered the World (1956), Not of This Earth (1957), Rock All Night (1957), Teenage Doll (1957), Carnival Rock (1957), Sorority Girl (1957), Naked Paradise (1957), The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957), Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), War of the Satellites (1958), Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), Teenage Cave Man (1958), She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), I Mobster (1959), The Wasp Woman (1959), A Bucket of Blood (1959), Ski Troop Attack (1960), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), House of Usher (1960), Last Woman on Earth (1960), Atlas (1961), Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Premature Burial (1962), The Intruder (1962), Tales of Terror (1962), Tower of London (1962), The Raven (1963), The Young Racers (1963), The Terror (1963), X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963), The Haunted Palace (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), The Secret Invasion (1964), The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), The Wild Angels (1966), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), The Trip (1967), Target: Harry (1969), Bloody Mama (1970), Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It (1970), Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), Frankenstein Unbound (1990)