20 frightfully fun facts about the Vincent Price gothic horror Tower of London
To celebrate the UK Blu-ray release of the Corman-Price-Shakespeare horror, here’s 20 frightfully fun facts you should know… (1) Roger Corman had already scored much success with four Edgar Allan Poe films (House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Premature Burial and Tales of Terror) when his producer brother…
The Carol Burnett Show (1974) | Vincent Price shows his funny side
Of all of Vincent Price's many guest appearances on US comedy shows, I've always loved his turns on The Carol Burnett Show, the hilarious variety sketch show that also starred Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway, and which ran for 278 episodes on CBS from 11 September…
19 Things You Must Know About Scream and Scream Again
‘Composite beings, half-synthetic, half-human transplant. They live, they kill, but they cannot die. Only boiling acid will dissolve them, halt their unearthly lust.’ So went the promotional taglines on the posters of Scream and Scream Again – a bizarre, complex, surreal 1970's British feature which famously teamed up Vincent Price,…
The Bribe (1949) | Did you know Vincent Price’s pyrotechnic film noir became a Steve Martin spoof?
https://youtu.be/6DKVaFS_Yh8 Being a master of light-hearted musicals and comedies for MGM throughout the 1930s, director Robert Leonard was a bizarre choice for the studio's 1949 thriller The Bribe, which Carl Reiner’s gave new life to in 1982 when he lifted heaps of scenes for his ingenious spoof, Dead Men Don’t…
Operation Flypaper | Science Fiction Theatre (1956)
A meeting of scientists is cancelled when their equipment and documents start disappearing practically from their very hands, along with substantial amounts of time. To catch the culprit, government security sets up a phony lab with cameras to record what happens when time seems to go missing. This episode of…
V is for Vampire (1967) | When a palefaced Vincent Price scared the boys silly on F-Troop
The satirical US sitcom F Troop may have only lasted two seasons (1965-1967), but it remains a cult classic – and who better to make a suitably spooky appearance at the height of his horror film career fame than Vincent Price? This second season episode, V is for Vampire, which…
Copperhead Izzy (1969) | When Vincent Price met little Eddie Munster on Daniel Boone
On 30 January 1969, Vincent Price guest starred in the fifth-season 15th-episode of Fess Parker's popular action-adventure US TV series Daniel Boone, playing Thaddeus Morton, a conman trying to solicit funds from concerned citizens to build an orphanage. In reality, however, Thaddeus and his wife are forcing their charges to…
Darling of the Day (1968) | Vincent Price’s first and only Broadway musical
The Theatre Guild and Joel Schenker Present Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge In a new musical DARLING OF THE DAY Based on Arnold Bennett’s Buried Alive and his play The Great Adventure. Also starring Brenda Forbes, Peter Woodthorpe and Teddy Green. Composed by Jule Styne Lyrics by EY Harburg ‘...thoroughly…
A Colorslide Tour | Visit the world’s great museums with Vincent Price from the comfort of your home
These five Guided Tours of the World's Great Museums were produced by Panorama, a service of the Columbia Record Club, in 1960 in a series called, A Colorslide Tour of... Each book run 46 pages in length and 11″ by 8″ in size and contain two colourslide cards featuring 32…