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Shock (1946) | When Vincent Price was first beseiged by fate

A psychologically distraught woman (Anabel Shaw) finds herself committed to a private sanitarium run by the man (Vincent Price) who she witnessed killing his wife with a candlestick. Will anyone Continue Reading

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Posted On : 19th May 2020 Published By : The Curator
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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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The Web (1947) | It’s a double-cross – a triple murder, with kisses for me!

When self-confident attorney Bob Regan (Edmond O’Brien) is hired as a bodyguard to wealthy industrialist Andrew Colby (Vincent Price), he kills a mysterious intruder (Fritz Leiber Sr) on his first Continue Reading

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Posted On : 25th May 2017 Published By : The Curator
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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
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A Royal Scandal (1945) | Vincent Price’s brief encounter with Catherine ze Great

In 1945, Vincent Price got the chance to work with one of Hollywood’s cinematic giants, Ernst Lubitsch, in the screwball comedy, A Royal Scandal (aka Czarina), which was based on Continue Reading

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Posted On : 26th March 2017 Published By : The Curator
The Bribe (1949)
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The Bribe (1949) | Did you know Vincent Price’s pyrotechnic film noir became a Steve Martin spoof?

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 Continue Reading

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Posted On : 3rd February 2017 Published By : The Curator

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