The Haunted Palace / The Tower of London
by Roger Corman
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Actor: Bruce Gordon (II), Joan Freeman, Michael Pate, Robert Brown (XI), Vincent PriceDirector: Roger Corman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 157 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Haunted Palace / The Tower of London
Movie Review: The Mistakes on the Midnite Movies DVD Below. (Haunted Palace Based on Lovecraft not Poe)
Summary: 5 Stars
The Midnite Movies DVDs are great. They provide us with some great classics in horror at a fair price (as long as they stay in print) and a lot of the times you get two great movies on one disc as seen here. The quality is usually great as well. However from my experience Midnite Movies are famous for mistakes and misprints on the back of their DVDs. I don't mind, it's kind of like when your a kid buying baseball cards and your looking for the error card.
Haunted Palace:
On the back of the Haunted Palace they mention it being based on a Edgar Allan Poe poem. However as Roger Corman points out on the "A change of Poe" Interview on the disc AIP gave him a bit of freedom and let him give his take on Lovecraft and points out the film being based off of H.P Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Corman mentions how he wasn't going to do a series of Lovecraft films but go back to doing Poe afterwards. As a fan of Corman I would've liked to see a series of Lovecraft as well.
The Haunted Palace is based on an 18th century warlock, Joseph Curwen (Price) who is burned at the stake by the towns people but not before he places a curse on the village. More then a century goes by and Charles Dexter ward, Curwen's grandson shows up to the village with his bride to claim the property. Charles Dexter Ward is also played by Price in this duel role Corman considered his best. Price does do an amazing job as always. Joseph begins to posses his grandson Ward to finish his work and we get to see Price change character on the spot. The film also cast Lon Chaney Jr (The Wolf Man.
The DVD also says it provides a mono audio track but it was in 2 channel digital.
TOWER OF LONDON:
Under the "fun facts" on the back of the dvd it is pointed out that the original tag line for the film was "Do you have the courage to spend 83 minutes in the Tower of London? But the Midnite Movies points out the film is only 80mins, which I found ironic with all their mistakes on the disc, but I probably have a lot of mistakes in this review.
This small budget black and white gem, also by Corman is epic in idea and Price's acting giving it a larger feel.
Based on Shakespeare's Richard III the film follows Richard of Gloucester, (Price was also in the 1939 version The Boris Karloff Collection (Tower of London / The Black Castle / The Climax / The Strange Door / Night Key)starring Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff, in one of Prices earlier films) this time played by Price as he murders anyone standing in his way of England's throne. Things do not go as planned as the ghosts of those he killed come back to assist him in going madd.
The DVD also contains an Interview Producer Gene Corman.
I bought the dvd off here but through a company called Interzone. The shipping was literally next day even though it was supposed to be standard and the dvd arrived in great condition, factory sealed as advertised. I recommend them.
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