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Director:
Writers:
Charles Beaumont (writer)
Edgar Allan Poe (story)
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Release Date:
7 March 1962 (USA) more
Tagline:
Within the Coffin I Lie...ALIVE!
Plot:
Emily Gault arrives at the Carrell mansion determined to rekindle an old relationship with Guy Carrell... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Scary Movies 3 and other NYC fright-film fests
(From Fangoria. 23 September 2009, 2:30 PM, PDT)
Go gentle into that good night
(From Roger Ebert's Blog. 7 May 2009, 9:57 PM, PDT)
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Midnight in the garden of good and evil more (25 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Ray Milland | ... | Guy Carrell | |
| Hazel Court | ... | Emily Gault | |
| Richard Ney | ... | Miles Archer | |
| Heather Angel | ... | Kate Carrell | |
| Alan Napier | ... | Dr. Gideon Gault | |
| John Dierkes | ... | Sweeney | |
| Dick Miller | ... | Mole | |
| Clive Halliday | ... | Judson | |
| Brendan Dillon | ... | Minister |
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Runtime:
81 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
New Zealand:M | Finland:(Banned) (1963) | USA:Unrated | Norway:16 (1962)
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Roger Corman started this film outside of American International Pictures. Since Vincent Price had been signed to an exclusive contract with AIP, Corman chose Ray Milland for the lead role. American International would acquire the production just as principal photography began. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Kate tells Guy that it's time for his medicine, she’s holding the tray in her hands. In the next shot it's gone, and it is nowhere to be seen when the three of them leave the crypt. more
Quotes:
Guy Carrell: Can you possibly conceive it. The unendurable oppression of the lungs, the stifling fumes of the earth, the rigid embrace of the coffin, the blackness of absolute night and the silence, like an overwhelming sea. more
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Featured in Fantastic Fantasy Fright-o-Rama Show Vol. 1 (1996) (V) more
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Molly Malone more
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Intensely gloomy it may be, but an impressive example how a determined cinematic stylist can make a real virtue of a low budget. This was the third of director Roger Corman's AIP chillers based on Poe stories, and the only one not to star Vincent Price. Here, Ray Milland is the protagonist whose family history of catalepsy makes him fear burial alive.
Entirely shot on the sound stage, Corman and his regular art director Danial Haller have created a wonderfully expressionist garden of gnarled trees and shrubs wreathed with dry ice. Even the interior of Milland's mansion seems like a grave, notably in the scene where Hazel Court and Richard Bull take tea in a drawing room with wood-panelled walls, dark green wallpaper, with the dead tree pressing oppressively against the windows.
A number of other directorial touches make even this relatively minor Corman effort a winner. Court's shadow passing phantom-like over the sleeping Milland. The sudden shock moments when the sinister gravediggers Sweeny and Moe appear. And the blue-suffused dream-sequence in which Milland hallucinates the fate he fears most is quite masterfully shot, cut and scored (Ronald Stein).
A dark, dank little gem.