THE RAVEN (1963) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Roger Corman
Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff,
Hazel Court, Jack Nicholson, Olive Sturgess
Price, Lorre and Karloff play rival magicians in a horror comedy based only nominally on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe. If it's not the best of the Price/Poe/Corman collaborations, it's at least the goofiest, with a cranky (and substantially improvised) performance by Lorre, whose character has the bad luck to turn into both a bird and a pool of raspberry jam. Very tongue-in-beak.
Roger Corman
(1926-2024)
