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The Sound of Vincent Price The Sound of Vincent Price

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Laura (1944) | Still the greatest noir of them all!

Nominated for four Oscars and winning one, this is the ultimate noir. Dark and mysterious, stylishly wicked and enticingly captivating, 1944’s Laura is a glamorous murder mystery and a tangled Continue Reading

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Posted On : 15th January 2019 Published By : The Curator
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Angel Street (1941-1944) | When Vincent Price found his sinister side on Broadway

Angel Street is the US title for Gas Light, the acclaimed 1938 play by the British dramatist Patrick Hamilton. Set in a fog-bound London in 1880, it tells the tale Continue Reading

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Posted On : 6th June 2017 Published By : The Curator
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The Mad Magician (1954) | 3D Thrill! Fuel for the human bonfire!

Produced on the back of the expected success of 1953’s House of Wax, The Mad Magician (which was released in the US in May 1954) returned Vincent Price to the Continue Reading

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Posted On : 19th May 2017 Published By : The Curator
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  • The 1940s
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Dragonwyck (1946) | Time to bow down to Vincent Price’s Hudson Valley Bluebeard

On a gloomy estate in New York’s Hudson Valley in 1844, feudal Dutchman Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), cruelly lords it over his tenants. Married to Johanna (Vivienne Osborne), whom Continue Reading

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Posted On : 10th April 2017 Published By : The Curator
Category:
  • 1950s
  • Melodrama
  • RKO
  • RKO Pictures

Dangerous Mission (1954) | When Vincent Price got iced in Irwin Allen’s 3D action adventure

After witnessing a gangland murder, New York nightclub salesgirl, Louise (Piper Laurie) is afraid to testify and flees to Montana where she takes on a job working in the gift Continue Reading

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Posted On : 6th March 2017 Published By : The Curator
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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

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Posted On : 6th May 2016 Published By : The Curator

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