The World According to Carl Ray Louk: TCM Star of the Month Vincent Price

Vincent Price Profile

His aristocratic looks, cultivated manner and silken speaking voice served Vincent Price well through a series of careers as leading man, character actor and, in his best-remembered persona, horror film star.

Price (1911-1993) was born in St. Louis to a wealthy family and, after receiving a bachelor's degree from Yale in art history and English, headed to London for further study and a stage debut with John Gielgud in Chicago in 1935. After playing Prince Albert in the West End production of Victoria Regina, Price repeated the role on Broadway opposite Helen Hayes. He would remain active onstage over the years, scoring a particular success on Broadway as the villainous husband of Angel Street (1941).

Price made his film debut at Universal Studios in Service de Luxe (1938). He then made striking impressions in a series of notable roles including Sir Walter Raleigh in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), the Duke of Clarence in Tower of London (1939), Clifford Pyncheon in The House of Seven Gables (1940), Joseph Smith (founder of the Mormon religion) in Brigham Young (1940) and Dutour in The Song of Bernadette (1943).

In the early 1950s Price seemed settled into a career as an elegant featured actor when a whole new arena as horror star was opened by his role as the sinister owner of a wax museum in House of Wax (1953), the most successful 3-D movie of the 1950s. Among his other horror outings of that decade were The Fly (1958), House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Bat (1959). Meanwhile, he continued to take on character roles including Baka in The Ten Commandments (1956), the Devil in The Story of Mankind (1957) and Omar Khayham in Son of Sinbad (1955).

Beginning in the 1960s, Price starred in a highly successful series of horror chillers for American International Pictures (AIP) that were based on stories of Edgar Allan Poe and directed by Roger Corman. They included House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Raven (1963) and The Masque of the Red Death (1964). For United Artists Price made Diary of a Madman (1963), playing a magistrate possessed by the spirit of a man he was forced to kill; it was based on Guy de Maupassant's 1886 short story, "The Horla."

Price's best horror roles in the 1970s were those of the hideously scarred doctor in The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), the flamboyantly homicidal Edward Lionheart in Theater of Blood (1973) and the possibly homicidal TV star Paul Toombes aka "Dr. Death" in Madhouse (1974).

Price remained active in films and television throughout the 1980s, making his final movie appearances in 1990 in Edward Scissorhands and Backtrack. A man of wide interests, he collected art and antiques, functioned as a gourmet cook and quiz-show champion, co-authored cookbooks, wrote his memoirs and entered the world of rock music by lending his voice to the Michael Jackson video Thriller. Price's three wives were actress Edith Barrett, fashion designer Mary Grant and actress Coral Browne.

by Roger Fristoe

· Vincent Price Profile

· Featured Films

· The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

· Leave Her to Heaven

· The Keys of the Kingdom

· The Three Musketeers (1948)

· The Bribe

· The Long Night

· EXPAND COMPLETE MOVIE LINE-UP

o The Baron of Arizona

o His Kind of Woman

o The Las Vegas Story

o Dangerous Mission

o Son of Sinbad

o Serenade (1956)

o While the City Sleeps

o The Story of Mankind

o The Big Circus

o Master of the World

o Convicts 4

o The Trouble With Girls

o House on Haunted Hill

o The Bat

o Tower of London (1962)

o The Raven (1963)

o The Pit and the Pendulum

o The Haunted Palace

o The Masque of the Red Death

o The Abominable Dr. Phibes

· Thursday, October 10, 2013

· TCM PRIMETIME: STAR OF THE MONTH: VINCENT PRICE

·
8:00 PM

· 97 min
TV-PG

· western

· Baron Of Arizona, The (1950)

·
A swindler forges documents to make himself the owner of an entire state.
Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Vincent Price , Ellen Drew , Vladimir Sokoloff .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Samuel Fuller. Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Beulah Bondi, Reed Hadley. Price has field day as landgrabbing scoundrel who almost gains control of Arizona in the 19th century.

· 9:45 PM

· 120 min
TV-PG

· suspense

· His Kind Of Woman (1951)

·
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Robert Mitchum , Jane Russell , Vincent Price .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: John Farrow. Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Raymond Burr, Charles McGraw, Marjorie Reynolds, Jim Backus. Mitchum blindly goes to Mexico for a payoff of 50 grand, discovers he's the soon-to-be-dead chump whose identity will help deported gangster Burr re-enter the country. Cult film is overlong, but its spoofing of he-man heroics predates the more celebrated BEAT THE DEVIL by three years; Price is hilarious as a ham actor.

12:00 AM

· 88 min
TV-PG

· drama

· Las Vegas Story, The (1952)

·
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.
Dir: Robert Stevenson Cast: Jane Russell , Victor Mature , Vincent Price .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Robert Stevenson. Jane Russell, Victor Mature, Vincent Price, Hoagy Carmichael, Brad Dexter. Synthetic murder yarn supposedly set in gambling capital, sparked by Russell's vitality.

1:30 AM

· C- 75 min
TV-G

· musical

· Dangerous Mission (1954)

·
A woman flees westward after witnessing a mob killing.
Dir: Louis King Cast: Victor Mature , Piper Laurie , William Bendix .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Louis King. Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Betta St. John, Harry Cheshire, Walter Reed. Mob hit man is hired to rub out witness in an upcoming murder trial and tracks her to a hotel in Glacier National Park, where another killer is on the loose. Enjoyable thriller boasts a solid cast, lovely locations, and a nifty twist at the halfway point, but the script has too many subplots and surprisingly flat dialogue. That's Dennis Weaver as one of Bendix's deputies. Originally in 3-D.

3:00 AM

· C- 93 min
TV-PG

· adventure

· Son Of Sinbad (1955)

·
The legendary pirate's son fights an evil caliph over a magical secret.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Dale Robertson , Sally Forrest , Lili St. Cyr .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Ted Tetzlaff. Dale Robertson, Sally Forrest, Lili St. Cyr, Vincent Price. Limp Arabian Nights adventure has Sinbad, captured by caliph, forced to perform wonders to win freedom and save Baghdad from evil Tamerlane. Look fast for Kim Novak as one of the ladies garbed in full-length hooded capes. SuperScope.

4:45 AM

· C- 122 min
TV-G

· romance

· Serenade (1956)

·
A rising opera star is torn between his wealthy benefactor and a poor innocent.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Mario Lanza , Joan Fontaine , Sarita Montiel .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Anthony Mann. Mario Lanza, Joan Fontaine, Sarita Montiel, Vincent Price, Joseph Calleia, Vince Edwards. James M. Cain novel becomes surface soaper of Lanza, the protege of swank Fontaine, manipulated by manager Price and loved by earthy Montiel; spotty musical interludes.
REVIEW:

· Thursday, October 17, 2013

· TCM PRIMETIME: STAR OF THE MONTH: VINCENT PRICE

· 8:00 PM

· 100 min
TV-PG

· crime

· While The City Sleeps (1956)

·
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews , Rhonda Fleming , George Sanders .

· CLOSE LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Fritz Lang. Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Vincent Price, Thomas Mitchell, Sally Forrest, Howard Duff, James Craig, John Barrymore, Jr., Mae Marsh. Veteran cast and intertwining storylines keep interest in account of newspaper reporters and police on the track of a berserk killer.

9:45 PM

· C- 100 min
TV-PG

· epic

· Story Of Mankind, The (1957)

·
Satan and the spirit of mankind contend for the future of humanity.
Dir: Irwin Allen Cast: Ronald Colman , Hedy Lamarr , Groucho Marx .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Irwin Allen. Ronald Colman, Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price; guest stars Hedy Lamarr, Groucho, Harpo, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo, Agnes Moorehead, Francis X. Bushman, Charles Coburn, Marie Windsor, John Carradine, Dennis Hopper. Ambitious in concept, laughable in juvenile results. Henrik Van Loon book of highlights of man's history becomes string of cliched costume episodes, badly cast, and packed with stock footage; the Marxes don't even appear together! Colman's last film.

· 11:30 PM

· C- 109 min
TV-PG

· drama

· Big Circus, The (1959)

·
A ringleader tries to keep his circus on the road despite the efforts of a saboteur.
Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: Victor Mature , Red Buttons , Rhonda Fleming .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Joseph M Newman. Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming, Kathryn Grant, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, David Nelson, Gilbert Roland, Howard McNear, Steve Allen. Corny and predictable, but still entertaining hokum under the big top, with Lorre as a sardonic clown and Roland tightrope-walking over Niagara Falls. And what a cast! CinemaScope.

1:30 AM

· C- 99 min
TV-PG

· horror

· Master Of The World (1961)

·
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
Dir: William Witney Cast: Vincent Price , Charles Bronson , Henry Hull .

· 3:15 AM

· 106 min
TV-PG

· drama

· Convicts 4 (1962)

·
A convicted killer discovers a talent for art while behind bars.
Dir: Millard Kaufman Cast: Ben Gazzara , Stuart Whitman , Ray Walston .

· 5:15 AM

· C- 99 min
TV-PG

· comedy

· Trouble With Girls, The (1969)

·
A traveling show's star gets involved in a small-town murder case.
Dir: Peter Tewksbury Cast: Elvis Presley , Marlyn Mason , Nicole Jaffe .

· Thursday, October 24, 2013

· TCM PRIMETIME: STAR OF THE MONTH: VINCENT PRICE

· 8:00 PM

· C- 88 min
TV-PG

· horror

· House Of Wax (1953)

·
A scarred sculptor re-populates his ravaged wax museum with human corpses.
Dir: Andre DeToth Cast: Vincent Price , Frank Lovejoy , Phyllis Kirk .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Andre de Toth. Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Paul Picerni, Carolyn Jones, Paul Cavanagh, Charles Buchinsky (Bronson). Remake of MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM stars Price as vengeful sculptor who rebuilds his fire-destroyed showplace by using human victims as wax figures. Jones excellent as an early victim. Most popular of the era's 3-D films, a status it retains today. This is the film that launched Price on his horror film cycle after 15 years of "straight'' roles. Love that paddleball man!

9:45 PM

· 73 min
TV-PG

· horror

· Mad Magician, The (1954)

·
Betrayed by his manager, a master magician uses his skills to seek revenge.
Dir: John Brahm Cast: Vincent Price , Mary Murphy , Eva Gabor .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: John Brahm. Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Patrick O'Neal, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Lenita Lane, Donald Randolph, Jay Novello. Amusing knockoff of HOUSE OF WAX, made by many of the same hands (and also shot in 3-D). This time Price is an illusionist, but otherwise the plots are pretty much alike. Much better than it has any right to be; Brahm, no stranger to Victorian-era melodrama, keeps it moving swiftly, with Lane upstaging the stars as a nosy crime novelist. Lyle Talbot appears unbilled as a program hawker.

11:00 PM

· C- 79 min
TV-PG

· horror

· House Of Usher (1960)

·
A young man tries to rescue the woman he loves from her demonic brother.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price , Mark Damon , Myrna Fahey .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Roger Corman. Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe. First-rate horror film based on classic tale by Edgar Allan Poe. When beautiful young girl's suitor arrives to ask her hand in marriage, the doors of the house of Usher fling open, and terror begins. Filmed several times before and since, but never this effectively; a great tour de force for Price. First of Corman's eight Poe adaptations. Aka THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. CinemaScope.

12:30 AM

· C- 97 min
TV-14

· suspense

· Diary of a Madman (1963)

·
The body of a French magistrate is taken over by the soul of a murderer.
Dir: Reginald Le Borg Cast: Vincent Price , Nancy Kovack , Chris Warfield .

· 2:15 AM

· C- 82 min
TV-PG

· horror

· Tingler, The (1959)

·
A scientist discovers an organism that lives on fear.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Vincent Price , Judith Evelyn , Darryl Hickman .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: William Castle. Vincent Price, Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Philip Coolidge, Patricia Cutts. Preposterous but original shocker: coroner Price discovers that fear causes a creepy-crawly creature to materialize on people's spines; it can be subdued only by screaming. This is the infamous picture that got moviegoers into the spirit with vibrating gizmos under selected theater seats!--a gimmick director/producer Castle billed as "Percepto.'' Also noteworthy as likely the earliest film depicting an LSD trip. One critical sequence is in color.

3:45 AM

· 75 min
TV-14

· horror

· House On Haunted Hill (1959)

·
A millionaire offers total strangers a fortune to spend the night in a haunted house.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Vincent Price , Carol Ohmart , Richard Long .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: William Castle. Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Elisha Cook, Jr., Carolyn Craig, Leona Anderson. Zillionaire Price offers group of people $10,000 each if they'll spend a night in spooky old mansion with murder-laden history; he even provides loaded guns as party favors. Campy fun; probably the Castle film which holds up best on TV. Originally presented theatrically with flying skeleton gimmick "Emergo.'' Remade in 1999.

5:15 AM

· 80 min
TV-PG

· horror

· Bat, The (1959)

·
A female mystery novelist turns detective to unmask a demented killer.
Dir: Crane Wilbur Cast: Vincent Price , Agnes Moorehead , Gavin Gordon .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Crane Wilbur. Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane, Elaine Edwards, Darla Hood. Faithful filming of the Mary Roberts RinehartAvery Hopwood play, with mystery writer Moorehead renting an eerie mansion for the summer; she and her maid soon are plagued by the title fiend. Filmed before in 1915, 1926 and (as THE BAT WHISPERS) in 1930.
REVIEW:

· Thursday, October 31, 2013 Halloween

·
6:00 AM

· C- 83 min
TV-14

· horror

· Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)

·
A scientist's attempts to create life unleash a bloodthirsty monster.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing , Hazel Court , Robert Urquhart .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Terence Fisher. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt, Noel Hood. OK retelling of original Shelley tale, with Cushing as Baron von Frankenstein, whose experimentation with creation of life becomes an obsession. First of Hammer Films' long-running horror series, and itself followed by six sequels, starting with THE RE VENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN.

7:30 AM

· C- 88 min
TV-PG

· horror

· Mummy, The (1959)

·
A resurrected mummy stalks the archaeologists who defiled his tomb.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing , Christopher Lee , Yvonne Furneaux .

· LEONARD MALTIN REVIEW:

· D: Terence Fisher. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley. Against warnings of severe consequences, archeologists desecrate ancient tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka. They return to England and those consequences. Stylish Hammer resurrection of Universal's Kharis series.

9:00 AM

· C- 84 min
TV-14

· horror

· Horror Castle (1963)

·
A Holocaust survivor tortures women in the dungeons of an ancient castle.
Dir: Anthony Dawson Cast: Rossana Podestà , Georges Rivière , Christopher Lee .

· 10:30 AM

· 90 min
TV-14

· horror

· Castle of the Living Dead, The (1964)

·
A traveling circus entertains a medieval count who uses them in his bizarre experiments.
Dir: Michael Reeves Cast: Christopher Lee , Donald Sutherland ,

· 12:15 PM

· C- 90 min
TV-14

· horror

· Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1965)

·
Four travelers unwittingly revive the bloodsucking count.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Christopher Lee , Barbara Shelley , Andrew Keir .

· 1:45 PM

· C- 96 min
TV-14

· horror

· Devil's Bride, The (1968)

·
Small town Satanists lure an innocent brother and sister into their coven.
Dir: Terence Fisher Cast: Christopher Lee , Charles Gray , Nike Arrighi .

· 3:45 PM

· C- 92 min
TV-14

· horror

· Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1969)

·
Dracula goes after the niece of the monsignor who destroyed his castle.
Dir: Freddie Francis Cast: Christopher Lee , Rupert Davies , Veronica Carlson .

· 5:30 PM

· C- 88 min
TV-14

· horror

· Horror Express (1972)

·
An anthropologist discovers a frozen monster which he believes may be the Missing Link.
Dir: Eugenio Martin Cast: Christopher Lee , Peter Cushing , Telly Savalas .

· TCM PRIMETIME: STAR OF THE MONTH: VINCENT PRICE

· 8:00 PM

· C- 80 min
TV-PG

· horror

· Pit And The Pendulum (1961)

·
A young man investigates his sister's death in a mysterious castle.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price , John Kerr , Barbara Steele .

· 9:30 PM

· C- 87 min
TV-PG

· horror

· Haunted Palace, The (1963)

·
After inheriting a decaying estate, a man discovers his family's deadly secret.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price , Debra Paget , Lon Chaney [Jr.] .

· 11:15 PM

· C- 89 min
TV-14

· horror

· Masque Of The Red Death, The (1964)

·
A sadistic nobleman isolates his court from a world stricken with the plague.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price , Hazel Court , Jane Asher .

· 1:00 AM

· C- 95 min
TV-14

· horror

· Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (1971)

·
A madman uses the plagues of ancient Egypt to avenge his wife's death.
Dir: Robert Fuest Cast: Vincent Price , Joseph Cotten , Virginia North .

· 2:45 AM

· C- 120 min
TV-14

· horror

· Twice-Told Tales (1963)

·
A poisonous young beauty, the secrets of eternal life and a haunted house chill this collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne stories.
Dir: Sidney Salkow Cast: Vincent Price , Sebastian Cabot , Mari Blanchard .

· 5:00 AM

· C- 82 min
TV-PG

· horror

· Tomb Of Ligeia, The (1964)

·
A man's obsession with his dead wife leads to trouble for his new bride.
Dir: Roger Corman Cast: Vincent Price , Elizabeth Shepherd , John Westbrook

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