Stars: John Kerr, Barbara Steel, Vincent Price, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone, Patrick Westwood, Lynette Bernay, Mary Menzies, Charles Victor | Written by Richard Matheson | Directed by Roger Corman
This week has been a good week for Vincent Price fans and Arrow Video. Not only have we got Theatre of Blood, we now also have Pit and the Pendulum in another steelbook release. The Pit and the Pendulum is the second film in Roger Corman’s Edgar Allen Poe series of films (Fall of the House of Usher was first), and although Masque of the Red Death is arguably the better, this is a close second.
The Pit and the Pendulum is actually a very short story with not that much content available to make a full length movie from, so Richard Matheson took some liberties with the story when adapting it for the big screen. With elements of Fall of the...
This week has been a good week for Vincent Price fans and Arrow Video. Not only have we got Theatre of Blood, we now also have Pit and the Pendulum in another steelbook release. The Pit and the Pendulum is the second film in Roger Corman’s Edgar Allen Poe series of films (Fall of the House of Usher was first), and although Masque of the Red Death is arguably the better, this is a close second.
The Pit and the Pendulum is actually a very short story with not that much content available to make a full length movie from, so Richard Matheson took some liberties with the story when adapting it for the big screen. With elements of Fall of the...
- 5/19/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Westwood Guilty Of Harassment
British actor Patrick Westwood has been found guilty of harassment after "bullying" a gay neighbour in a series of arguments.
The 85 year old, who starred with Sir Michael Caine in The Last Valley, avoided jail time after a judge at Kingston Crown Court handed him a two-year supervision order.
Westwood is said to have provoked and humiliated homosexual Barrie Boxell, the manager of his apartment building in Wandsworth, south London.
The judge found him guilty of harassment and breaching restraining orders, telling him: "You made this man's life an absolute misery. It was premeditated bullying."...
The 85 year old, who starred with Sir Michael Caine in The Last Valley, avoided jail time after a judge at Kingston Crown Court handed him a two-year supervision order.
Westwood is said to have provoked and humiliated homosexual Barrie Boxell, the manager of his apartment building in Wandsworth, south London.
The judge found him guilty of harassment and breaching restraining orders, telling him: "You made this man's life an absolute misery. It was premeditated bullying."...
- 10/25/2010
- WENN
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