A Christmas gift from the Vincent Price Legacy UK
The Vincent Price Legacy UK wishes you all a joyous Christmas and a prosperous New Year. As a special treat, here’s a rare recording from 1958 in which Vincent Price Continue Reading
The Las Vegas Story (1952) | A RKO noir classic
1952’s The Las Vegas Story is a minor RKO gem starring Jane Russell as a singer returning to Vegas with her gambler husband (Vincent Price), and picking up with her Continue Reading
The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1956) | A Caedmon classic
The Poetry of Shelley (TC 1059), directed by Howard O Sackler, was released in 1956 (priced US$5.95), and reissued in 1962 by Caedmon (the ‘third dimension for the printed page’ Continue Reading
America the Beautiful | The heart of America in poetry with Vincent Price
From 1961 comes the Columbia Masterworks record, America the Beautiful: The Heart of America in Poetry spoken by Vincent Price. Produced and directed by John Tobias, and written by Douglas Continue Reading
Notes on the Port of St Francis (1951) | Vincent Price’s first foray in film narration is an artistic gem
Notes on the Port of St Francis is a 1951 impressionistic and culturally significant portrait of San Francisco, directed by experimental filmmaker Frank Stauffacher, based on an essay by Robert Louis Stevenson, Continue Reading
The Song of Moses (1968) | When Vincent Price gave voice to the stirring oratorio
‘I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously’ Song of Moses is a 70-minute oratorio by American neoclassic composer David Ward-Steinman (November 6, 1936 – April 14, Continue Reading
Goblins at the Bath House and The Calamander Chest (1978) | Two hair-raising tales of terror narrated by Vincent Price
Published by Caedmon (TC 1574) in 1978, this vinyl record contains two tales of the supernatural. Goblins at the Bath House is an Estonian fairy tale collected by Ruth Manning-Sanders in Continue Reading
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) | A masterpiece of post war American cinema
‘A “film noir in colour” (per Martin Scorsese) and a masterpiece of post-World War II American cinema… director John M Stahl’s gaze remains spare and precise, very Japanese in effect, Continue Reading
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) | When Vincent Price played a porky priest
THE STORY This adaptation of AJ Cronin’s 1941 novel, The Keys of the Kingdom, explores the life of Catholic missionary Francis Chisholm (Gregory Peck). Told in flashback, it spans some Continue Reading
The World of Century Twenty-First | Vincent Price’s futuristic musical panorama at Seattle World’s Fair
The Seattle World’s Fair, known as The Century 21 Exposition, was a six-month-long event from April 21 to October 21, 1962 in which close to 10 million visitors got a Continue Reading