Directed by:
Jacques TourneurScreenplay:
Richard MathesonCinematography:
Floyd CrosbyComposer:
Les BaxterCast:
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson, Joe E. Brown, Basil Rathbone, Alan DeWitt, Beverly Powers, Harvey Parry, Charles Soldani (more)VOD (1)
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Vincent Price plays Waldo Trumbull, a perpetually inebriated, down-on-his-luck undertaker who has struck on an interesting way to boost business by hastening the deaths of those whom he buries. When landlord Mr. Black (Basil Rathbone) threatens to put him out on the street for falling behind with the rent, Trumbull, together with his reluctant and bumbling assistant Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre), hatches an ill-advised plan to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. (Arrow Films)
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All these men and a few women have managed to create a horror romp that isn't as scary as one would hope, but some scenes are entertaining, and it's all filmed in the spirit of a Shakespearean comedy, albeit without quite as memorable dialogue. Jacques Tourneur, however, demonstrated that the genre truly suits him, but he is capable of adding spice to it that makes the film unique, multi-genre, and interesting.
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