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Overview
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Writers:
Edgar Allan Poe (short story)
Robert Towne (screenplay)
Release Date:
20 January 1965 (USA) more
Tagline:
Even on her wedding night she must share the man she loved with the "female thing" that lived in the Tomb of the Cat! more
Plot:
Some years after having buried his beloved wife Ligea, Verden Fell meets and eventually marries the lovely Lady Rowena... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Scary Movies 3 and other NYC fright-film fests
(From Fangoria. 23 September 2009, 2:30 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
The best of the Corman Poe's. more (42 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Vincent Price | ... | Verden Fell | |
| Elizabeth Shepherd | ... | The Lady Rowena Trevanion / The Lady Ligeia | |
| John Westbrook | ... | Christopher Gough | |
| Derek Francis | ... | Lord Trevanion | |
| Oliver Johnston | ... | Kenrick | |
| Richard Vernon | ... | Dr. Vivian | |
| Frank Thornton | ... | Peperel | |
| Ronald Adam | ... | Minister at Graveside | |
| Denis Gilmore | ... | Livery Boy | |
| Penelope Lee | ... | Lady Rowena's Maidservant |
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Tomb of Ligeia (UK) (complete title)
Last Tomb of Ligeia
Ligeia
Tomb of the Cat
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USA:81 min | UK:81 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Germany:16 | UK:12 (DVD rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Unrated
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Proposed titles included "The House at the End of the World" and "The Tomb of the Cat" more
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Verden Fell: The eyes, they confound me. There's a blankness, a mindless sort of malice in some Egyptian. They do not readily yield up the mystery. more
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Referenced in Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007) more
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How does it end?Did Roger Corman make any other movies based on Edgar Allan Poe's stories?
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There is an assumption among movie fans that the longer a movie series exists, the worse the later films will be. Although the films Roger Corman made of some of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe began well and continued with no obvious sense of decline, it is my opinion that the best was kept for last. The most overtly spectacular film in the series was 'The Masque of the Red Death' with its fine sense of colour and effective sense of homage to Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal'. I have always enjoyed this film and in terms of a deliberate departure from the series norm, it is exceptional. However one enjoys any series for the familiar as well as the unusual, and in this respect 'The Tomb of Ligeia' is the most memorable for me in the way it builds upon and enhances what has gone on in previous films. The logical departure from the previous films which had been (very happily and effectively) studio-bound, was to move to location. Corman's choice of Castle Acre Priory in Norfolk, was an inspired one. An large amount of location filming was done there and this grounded the film in a realistic (yet unusual)setting. Gone were the fog machines and 'blasted heath' effects of 'House of Usher' and 'The Premature Burial'. Many critics have mentioned their disquiet at the absence of Barbara Steele, at that time undoubtedly the actress most associated with this type of picture. Wonderful though Miss Steele was in, say, the last thirty minutes of 'The Pit and the Pendulum', I feel that the presence of the English actress, Elizabeth Sheppard, adds to the sense of realisim, while taking little away from the shock effect of one actress playing both a good and an evil role. Roger Corman is on record as saying that he had to keep a written record as to when Rowena was herself and when she was Ligeia. All I can say that it is happily obvious on the screen when each side of the romantic coin is in evidence. I think that Elizabeth Sheppard's performance, grounded in reason, and when added to the inevitable polish that was being obtained by this stage in the series, showed a welcome extra sense of belief, to point out the advances and progression that had been made by this, the last film, in the series. Two scenes stand out : the entrapment of Rowena in the bell tower by the black cat (representing Ligeia.) I am also very impressed by Rowena's hynotism ; first to her own childhood and then to the persona of Ligeia. This film has not been available for viewing in the UK for many years. It is to be hoped that this situation will be reversed before long. I remember with affection the moment when great talents (from both sides of the 'pond') collaborated with great effcetiveness to come up with the ultimate 'Corman Classic'.