Edgar Allan Poe Collection 3 (6 Films) - 3-DVD Set ( The Raven / Murders in the Rue Morgue / City in the Sea (The City Under the Sea) / The Conqueror Worm (Witchfinder General) / Cry of the Banshee / The Mummy Lives )

Edgar Allan Poe Collection 3 (6 Films) - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Raven / Murders in the Rue Morgue / City in the Sea (The City Under the Sea) / The Conqueror Worm (Witchfinder General) / Cry of the Banshee / The Mummy Lives
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
538 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1963 - 1993 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Roger Corman
Gordon Hessler
Jacques Tourneur
Michael Reeves
Gerry O'Hara

Written By:
Edgar Allan Poe
Richard Matheson
Christopher Wicking
Charles Bennett
Louis M. Heyward
Tom Baker
Michael Reeves
Tim Kelly
Nelson Gidding

Actors:
Vincent Price ..... Dr. Erasmus Craven
Peter Lorre ..... Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
Boris Karloff ..... Dr. Scarabus
Hazel Court ..... Lenore Craven
Olive Sturgess ..... Estelle Craven
Jack Nicholson ..... Rexford Bedlo
Connie Wallace ..... Maid
William Baskin ..... Grimes
Aaron Saxon ..... Gort
Jason Robards ..... Cesar Charron
Herbert Lom ..... Rene Marot
Christine Kaufmann ..... Madeleine Charron
Adolfo Celi ..... Inspector Vidocq
Maria Perschy ..... Genevre
Michael Dunn ..... Pierre Triboulet
Lilli Palmer ..... Mrs. Charron
Peter Arne ..... Aubert
Rosalind Elliot ..... Gabrielle
Marshall Jones ..... Luigi Orsini
María Martín ..... Madam Adolphe
Ruth Plattes ..... Orsini's Assistant
Rafael Hernández ..... Member of Repertory Company
Pamela McInnes ..... Member of Repertory Company
Sally Longley ..... Member of Repertory Company
Vincent Price ..... The Captain, Sir Hugh
Tab Hunter ..... Ben Harris
David Tomlinson ..... Harold Tufnell-Jones
Susan Hart ..... Jill Tregillis
John Le Mesurier ..... Rev. Jonathan Ives
Henry Oscar ..... Mumford
Derek Newark ..... Dan
Roy Patrick ..... Simon
Herbert the Rooster ..... Himself
Vincent Price ..... Matthew Hopkins
Ian Ogilvy ..... Richard Marshall
Rupert Davies ..... John Lowes
Hilary Heath ..... Sara
Robert Russell ..... John Stearne
Nicky Henson ..... Swallow
Tony Selby ..... Salter
Bernard Kay ..... Fisherman
Godfrey James ..... Webb
Michael Beint ..... Captain Gordon
John Trenaman ..... Harcourt
Bill Maxwell ..... Gifford
Paul Ferris ..... Paul
Maggie Kimberly ..... Elizabeth
Peter Haigh ..... Lavenham Magistrate
Vincent Price ..... Lord Edward Whitman
Essy Persson ..... Lady Patricia Whitman
Hilary Heath ..... Maureen Whitman
Carl Rigg ..... Harry Whitman
Stephan Chase ..... Sean Whitman
Marshall Jones ..... Father Tom
Andrew McCulloch ..... Bully Boy
Michael Elphick ..... Burke
Pamela Moiseiwitsch ..... Maid
Joyce Mandre ..... Party Guest
Robert Hutton ..... Party Guest
Guy Deghy ..... Party Guest
Elisabeth Bergner ..... Oona
Patrick Mower ..... Roderick
Victoria Fairbrother ..... Margaret Donald (witch)
Tony Curtis ..... Aziru / Dr. Mohassid
Leslie Hardy ..... Sandra Barnes / Kia
Greg Wrangler ..... Dr. Carey Williams
Jacques Cohen ..... Lord Maxton
Mohammad Bakri ..... Alexatos
Mosko Alkalai ..... Kroll
Moshe Ivgy ..... Ali
Joseph Shiloach ..... Capt. Mahmoud
Uri Gavriel ..... Tomb guard
Igal Naor ..... Egyptology official
Eli Danker ..... Museum Director
Yossi Graber ..... Judge
Charlie Buzaglo ..... Acolyte priest
Rafi Weinstock ..... Acolyte priest
Amos Lavi ..... Museum guard

Synopsis:

The Raven (1963)
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help in this film loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem.
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
City in the Sea (1965)
In 1903, in Cornwall,a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.
The Conqueror Worm (1968)
A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch hunter.
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
In Elizabethan England, a wicked lord massacres nearly all the members of a coven of witches, earning the enmity of their leader, Oona. Oona calls up a magical servant, a "banshee", to destroy the lord's family.
The Mummy Lives (1993)
A mummy returns from the dead and becomes obsessed with a woman which he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover.

The Raven (1963)
The magician Dr. Erasmus Craven, who does not belong to the brotherhood of magicians, grieves the loss of his beloved wife Lenore and lives in a castle with his daughter Estelle. One day, a raven knocks on his window and Dr. Craven learns that the bird is actually the magician Dr. Adolphus Bedlo that was turned into a raven after challenging the powerful magician Dr. Scarabus that was an enemy of his father. Dr. Craven makes a potion to turn Dr. Bedlo back to the human form and Dr. Bedlo tells that he has seen Lenore in the castle of Dr. Scarabus. Dr. Craven decides to go in his coach with Dr. Bedlo to visit Dr. Scarabus but Estella and Dr. Bedlo's son Rexford decide to go with them. They find an amicable Dr. Scarabus that invite them to stay for the night. Was Dr. Craven's father wrong about Dr. Scarabus?
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play ""Murders in the Rue Morgue"" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
City in the Sea (1965)
Set on the Cornish coast in 1903, the film features a group of people discovering an underwater society of smugglers who never age living in a lost underwater city along with their gill-man slaves.
The Conqueror Worm (1968)
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches. Aided by his sadistic accomplice John Stearne, he travels from city to city and wrenches confessions from "witches" in order to line his pockets and gain sexual favors. When Hopkins persecutes a priest, he incurs the wrath of Richard Marshall, who is engaged to the priest's niece. Risking treason by leaving his military duties, Marshall relentlessly pursues the evil Hopkins and his minion Stearne.
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
The wicked and powerful magistrate Lord Edward Whitman is a witch hunter with his cruel sons Sean, Burke and Bully Boy in a small village in England. His wife Lady Patricia Whitman is deranged with the wickedness of Edward. His daughter Maureen is secretly in love with her stepbrother Roderick, who was an orphan found by Edward wandering on the fields. Edward's son Harry returns home after graduating in the university with Father Tom that is assigned to the local parish and he is surprised with the behavior of his father and brothers. Edward hunts down the witch Oona (Elizabeth Bergner) and her harmless followers and kills many of them. Oona summons Satan seeking revenge against Edward and the Whitman family. Satan's emissary surprisingly is Roderick, who has power to control animals and was born by fire. Will Roderick be capable to harm his foster family?
The Mummy Lives (1993)
In the name of profits, the tomb is opened. In the name of vengeance, the curse springs alive. From ancient ashes and mummified wrappings a mysterious being arises and becomes flesh. "I am the protector of the dead," he intones. But he will do more than play Grim Reaper to mortals who defy the tomb's sanctity. He wants to reclaim the woman he loves. Past and present converge with terrifying results in this gripping tale inspired by horror master Edgar Allan Poe's Some Words with a Mummy. Tony Curtis plays Dr. Mohassid, a reincarnated soul whose undying love has deadly consequences. Since his arrival, venemous serpents writhe, phantoms stalk and a certain young woman's nightmares erupt into even more frightful days. The tomb is open. Enter at your own risk!

The Raven (1963)
In this tongue-in-cheek movie inspired by Poe's poem, Dr. Craven is the son of a great sorcerer (now dead) who was once himself quite skilled at that profession, but has since abandoned it. One evening, a cowardly fool of a magician named Bedlo comes to Craven for help - the evil Scarabus has turned him into a raven and he needs someone to change him back. He also tells the reluctant wizard that Craven's long-lost wife Lenore, whom he loved greatly and thought dead, is living with the despised Scarabus.
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
In 19th-century Paris, theater impresario Cesar Charron (Jason Robards) is preparing a gruesome stage version of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe. The creepy production has given his wife, Madeleine (Christine Kaufmann), horrible nightmares. They prove to be an ominous prediction of the future when Cesar's actors start turning up dead. Cesar suspects that the murders are the work of his nemesis, René Marot (Adolfo Celi). The only problem with his theory is that Marot is dead.
City in the Sea (1965)
British rescuers (Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson) try to free a kidnapped young woman from the ocean-floor complex of a mad captain (Vincent Price).
The Conqueror Worm (1968)
A disturbing tale of evil set during the English Civil War. When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his henchmen and collect a fee for each witch from whom he extracts a confession - a policy which is exploited to the full.
Cry of the Banshee (1970)
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
The Mummy Lives (1993)
A pair of Egyptian nobles, sentenced to death for a forbidden affair, return from the grave 3,000 years later.

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