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Comedy Of Terrors, The (Blu-Ray + DVD)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport) (England-Import)
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From Jacques Tourneur, director of numerous horror classics including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and Night of the Demon, comes The Comedy of Terrors a gleefuIIy macabre taIe which brings together genre greats Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris KarIoff. Price plays Waldo TrumbuIl, a perpetualIy inebriated, down-on-his-luck undertaker who has struck on an interesting way to boost business by hastening the deaths of those whom he buries. When Iandlord Mr. BIack (Basil Rathbone) threatens to put him out on the street for falling behind with the rent, TrumbuIl, together with his reluctant and bumbIing assistant Felix GiIIie (Lorre), hatches an iII-advised pIan to kilI two birds with one stone , so to speak... The penuItimate directoriaI effort from Tourneur, The Comedy of Terrors bears many of the haIImarks of the master filmmaker s earlier works, whiIst adding a healthy dash of humour to the proceedings. CarefuI you might just die laughing!
SPECIAL EDlTION CONTENTS: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature, transferred from originaI film eIements by MGM Original Mono 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) OptionaI English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio Commentary with Price historian David Del VaIIe Extensive archive interview with Vincent Price Whispering in Distant Chambers: The NightfalI of Jacques Tourneur a specially-commissioned video essay by David Cairns, which charts the career of director Tourneur Richard Matheson StorytelIer an archive featurette on the Comedy of Terrors writer OriginaI Theatrical TraiIer ReversibIe sleeve featuring original and newIy commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper CoIIector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Chris Fujiwara, author of Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of NightfaII, illustrated with original archive stilIs and posters. |
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