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The Comedy of Terrors
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9492559
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DVD / Video / Blu-ray
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The Comedy of Terrors
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The comedy of Terrors
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2014
Release year of movie
1963
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Playing time (min.)
83
Number of discs / tapes
2
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5027035012094
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From Jacques Tourneur, director of numerous horror classics including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and Night of the Demon, comes The Comedy of Terrors – a gleefully macabre tale which brings together genre greats Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff.
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 (Lorre), hatches an ill-advised plan to "kill two birds with one stone", so to speak…
The penultimate directorial effort from Tourneur, The Comedy of Terrors bears many of the hallmarks of the master filmmaker's earlier works, whilst adding a healthy dash of humour to the proceedings. Careful – you might just die laughing!
Special edition contents
- High definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature, trasferred from original film elements by MGM.
- Audio commentary with author and fiom historian David Del Valle and cult director David DeCoteau
- Vincent Price: My Life and Crimes, The previously unreleased, alternate cut of the 1987 David Del Valle/Vincent Price interview in which the actor looks back over his extraordinary career
- Whistpering in Distant Chambers: The Nightfall of Jacques Tourneur
- A specially-commissioned video essay by David Cairns looking at the various themes and stylistic motifs which reappear throughout the director's work
- Richard Matheson Storyteller: An archive interview with the Comedy of Terrors writer
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Reversable sleeve featureing original and newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper
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