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One Minute Before Death

  • 19721972
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
3.6/10
293
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One Minute Before Death (1972)
Horror
A plot to murder a rich woman results in her ending up in a catatonic state and buried alive.A plot to murder a rich woman results in her ending up in a catatonic state and buried alive.A plot to murder a rich woman results in her ending up in a catatonic state and buried alive.
IMDb RATING
3.6/10
293
YOUR RATING
    • Rogelio A. González
    • Edgar Allan Poe(story "The Premature Burial")
    • Enrique Torres Tudela
    • Edward Funk(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Wanda Hendrix
    • Barry Coe
    • Gisele MacKenzie
    • Rogelio A. González
    • Edgar Allan Poe(story "The Premature Burial")
    • Enrique Torres Tudela
    • Edward Funk(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Wanda Hendrix
    • Barry Coe
    • Gisele MacKenzie
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 13User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Wanda Hendrix
    Wanda Hendrix
    • Genevieve Howard
    Barry Coe
    Barry Coe
    • Paul Howard
    Gisele MacKenzie
    Gisele MacKenzie
    • Adelaide
    Maray Ayres
    Maray Ayres
    • Eda
    Ty Haller
    • Robert
    Pia Shandel
    • Laura
    D. Goldrick
    • Myra
    • (as Doris Goldrick)
    Terence Kelly
    Terence Kelly
    Doris Buckinham
    • Sara
    Leanna Heckey
    • Jenny
    Pamela Allen
    Jack Ammon
    Dax Logan
    Ivor Harries
      George Spracklin
      Shanna Dickson
      Allan Anderson
          • Rogelio A. González
          • Edgar Allan Poe(story "The Premature Burial")
          • Enrique Torres Tudela
          • Edward Funk(dialogue)
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        • Trivia
          Though often mistaken for the same movie, this and and The Oval Portrait (1973) are actually two different films made with the same cast and crew.
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          by Enrique Torres Tudela

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        hack work, but good for a Sunday afternoon
        What can be said about this forgotten flick, which gratuitously uses Edgar Allen Poe's name (on the British and home video release)in an attempt to punch up it's marquee value, employs an actress who is 50 if she's a day as the leading ingenue, and is lensed by Mexican filmmakers in what looks like the American Northwest? Quite a bit.

        The movie concerns a mother and daughter who have come for the reading of a will to the mother's brother's house. Soon the daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead cousin and all sorts of weirdness happens. We learn from the faithful housekeeper that her former employer was a Union Commander and left his daughter alone to go off to war. Unbeknownst to him, their was a renegade Confederate soldier hiding in his house, and his daughter had fallen in love with him. The soldier is recaptured (as he and the girl almost exchange wedding vows), the now-pregnant daughter is thrown out by her father when he learns of this, she loses the baby and her mind, the father goes crazy and dies, and the daughter dies. Whew! and that's the backstory! Certainly no plot deficiencies here!

        In it's better moments, ONE MINUTE BEFORE DEATH(or ONE MINUTE BEFORE MIDNIGHT or THE OVAL PORTRAIT, take your pick)plays like a lesser entry in the Hammer Studios catalog. In it's worse moments, the movie comes on like a particularly overripe episode of DARK SHADOWS. The premise, concerning a deceased woman who possesses the body of a cousin, is rather weak and the film slips into weirdness near the end. The movie resorts to flying objects and mummified corpses to carry the last 30 or so minutes. The post-Civil War setting details are shakey; some of the dresses and hats the actresses wear look to be from a vintage some 20-40 years after the time of the setting. Still, there is some pretty scenery and some luxurious antebellum sets. Not high art, or even frightening, but clean and okay for passing an interminable Sunday afternoon.
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        • thomandybish
        • Nov 12, 2003

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          • October 1976 (United States)
          • Mexico
          • Canada
          • United States
          • English
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          • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
        • Production companies
          • Northwest Motion Picture Corporation
          • Uranio Films
          • Maple Leaf International Pictures
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        • 1 hour 24 minutes
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