The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. The screenplay...
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas...
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The Pit and the Pendulum (released on DVD in the United States as The Inquisitor) is a 1991 American horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and based on...
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Guy-Blaché The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film), a film by Roger Corman The Pit and the Pendulum (1964 film), a film by Alexandre Astruc The Pit and the Pendulum...
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Black Sunday (1960), and starred in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Long Hair of Death (1964), and Castle of Blood (1964)...
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Vincent Price (category Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School alumni)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Theatre of Blood (1973). He collaborated with Roger Corman on House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)...
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performances may have been as Vincent Price's sister in Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and as a murder victim in Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13...
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Roger Corman (redirect from The Pope of Pop Cinema)
and Corman, Haller, Matheson and Price reunited on The Pit and the Pendulum (1961). It was another sizable hit, and the "Poe cycle" of films was underway...
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Rebecca (1940) Dracula (1958) The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Suspiria (1977) Near Dark (1987) The Orphanage (2007) Gothic romance...
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Charles B. Griffith The Haunted Dream (circa 1961) - a biopic of Edgar Allan Poe I Flew a Spy Plane Over Russia (early 1960s) - based on the Francis Gary Powers...
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Les Baxter (redirect from Les Baxter and His Orchestra)
Allan Poe films and other horror and beach party films including House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, Muscle Beach Party and Beach Blanket...
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and also to a slight degree on the amplitude, the width of the pendulum's swing. The regular motion of pendulums was used for timekeeping and was the...
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of The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) by the producers who requested a similar film to be made. Gastaldi is credited as an assistant director in the film's...
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Daniel Haller (section Life and career)
Edgar Allan Poe film series, including House of Usher (1960) and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961). Haller directed his first film, Die, Monster, Die!, in 1965...
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the Pendulum (1961) A Cold Wind in August (1961) The Premature Burial (1962) Tales of Terror (1962) Hand of Death (1962) The Young Racers (1963) The Raven...
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Dementia 13 (redirect from The Haunted and the Hunted)
with Vincent Price in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961). Like Campbell and Patrick Magee, Anders had been borrowed by Coppola from the cast of Corman's just-completed...
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Julie Corman (section Life and career)
She is the widow of film producer and director Roger Corman. Corman was born Julie Ann Halloran in 1942. In 1970, she married film director and producer...
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John Kerr (actor) (category New Star of the Year (Actor) Golden Globe winners)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961). In 1963, Kerr had a continuing role on Arrest and Trial, playing Assistant District Attorney Barry Pine. During the 1960s...
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Richard Matheson (category Writers about religion and science)
stories for Roger Corman and American International Pictures – House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror and The Raven. He adapted his 1971...
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make the colour film House of Usher (1960). The film created its own cycle of Poe-adaptations by Corman, including The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales...
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List of film director–composer collaborations (redirect from List of noted film producer and composer collaborations)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) Castle Freak (1995) Masters of Horror (2005)- H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House Bobby Johnston King of the Ants...
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Antony Carbone (category Italian emigrants to the United States)
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) as Renzo Capetto Pit and the Pendulum (1961) as Dr. Charles Leon The Twilight Zone (1962) as Cristo The Split (1968)...
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writing the three films Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, and Bill & Ted Face the Music. Together they also wrote the films...
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on the story of the same name, The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (1983), another short film based on "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Poe and "A Torture by Hope"...
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Lafitte was the host for the opening and closing ceremonies. On 15 March it was announced that Japanese director Naomi Kawase would serve as the Cinéfondation...
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Bloody Mama (category Films set in the 1930s)
directed by Roger Corman, and starring Shelley Winters in the title role, with Bruce Dern, Don Stroud, Robert Walden, Alex Nicol and Robert De Niro in supporting...
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Black Sunday (1960 film) (redirect from The Mask of Satan)
several horror films, such as Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Freda's The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) and The Ghost (1963). Bava asked Steele, through...
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(1960) The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) The Premature Burial (1962) Tales of Terror (1962) The Raven (1963) The Haunted Palace (1963) The Masque of the Red...
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American International Pictures (category 1979 mergers and acquisitions)
on the works of Poe. House of Usher (1960) – based on the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) – based on the title...
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2011. Erickson, Hal. "The Pit and the Pendulum". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011. Pavlides, Dan. "Shadow of the Cat". Allmovie. Retrieved August 7, 2011...
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