Director
Roger Corman
Music (original)
Les Baxter
Cast
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Edition 2000
86'
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1963
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Fantasy, Comedy, Horror
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Dialogue:
English
The first screen teaming of legendary horror stars Boris Karloff, Vincent Price and Peter Lorre, this so-called ‘adaptation’ uses Poe's most famous poem as a springboard for Grand Guignol comedy. Melancholy magician Erasmus Craven, having recently relinquished his membership in the Brotherhood of Sorcerers after the apparent death of his wife Lenore, is paid a visit by a foul-mouthed talking raven, claiming to be small-time wizard Adolphus Bedlo. After some persuasion, Craven returns Bedlo to human form, reversing a spell placed by the evil Dr. Scarabus, Craven's chief rival. After learning that a woman bearing a strong likeness to Lenore was seen in the Doctor's company, Craven accompanies Bedlo to Scarabus' castle, where the resulting battle of wills escalates into all-out magical warfare between the two embittered sorcerers. (Cavett Binion)
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Credits
Directors
Roger Corman
Music (original)
Les Baxter
Cast
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff
Scenario
Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Matheson
Director of Photography
Floyd Crosby
Editors
Ronald Sinclair
Producers
Roger Corman
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
"The Raven" (Edgar Allan Poe)
Year
1963
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)