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The Comedy of Terrors (1963) -- A horror spoof in which a funeral director, who is in arrears on his rent, aggressively pursues customers to bolster his business-and the fact that they haven't died yet doesn't seem to dissuade him.

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Richard Matheson (written by)
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Release Date:
22 January 1964 (USA) more
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Your favorite creeps...together again! more
Plot:
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced the pay one year's back-rent.... more | add synopsis
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One of my favorites more (38 total)

Cast

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Vincent Price ... Trumbull

Peter Lorre ... Felix Gillie

Boris Karloff ... Hinchley
Joyce Jameson ... Amaryllis
Joe E. Brown ... Cemetery Keeper
Beverly Powers ... Mrs. Phipps (as Beverly Hills)
Basil Rathbone ... Mr. Black
Orangey ... Cleopatra (as Rhubarb)
Alan DeWitt ... Black's Servant
Buddy Mason ... Mr. Phipps
Douglas Williams ... Doctor
Linda Rogers ... Phipps' Maid
Luree Holmes ... Girl
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Also Known As:
The Graveside Story
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84 min
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Color (Pathécolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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The final film of Joe E. Brown. more
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Revealing mistakes: 'Peter Lorre''s stunt double is quite obvious - he's clearly a younger man (with longer, darker hair), wearing a Lorre mask. more
Quotes:
Felix Gillie: It's better in the dark.
Waldo Trumbull: For decapitation?
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Referenced in Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001) more

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One of my favorites, 26 January 2004
Author: Gafke from United States

This film really shouldn't be taken seriously. It's a spoof of itself, through and through, and it looks like the cast had a good time with it.

My three favorites are here: Vincent Price plays the unscrupulous mortician, whose impatience brings his floundering business some new customers. Peter Lorre is his unwilling partner and Boris Karloff is the bumbling father in law. Pretty Joyce Jameson is here too, with a singing voice that could shatter nerve endings but which nonetheless weaves a siren spell over lovesick Lorre. Basil Rathbone is here too, playing his part of The Rich Jerk with an unrivaled prissy elegance. Vincent Price has never played a better slimy villain; his performance is truly hysterical. This is a very satisfying film; it's funny, it's spooky when it needs to be and it has a great happy ending where everyone who deserves comeuppance gets it and everyone else goes away happily ever after. I actually prefer this film to "The Raven" and would only name "The Masque of the Red Death" as my absolute favorite out of all the Corman/Price vehicles.

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