Wild Rose (Patterson Memorial)

Tales of terror, the pit and the pendulum, the raven

Label
Tales of terror, the pit and the pendulum, the raven
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Main title
Tales of terror, the pit and the pendulum, the raven
Medium
DVD
Oclc number
764717830
Runtime
255
Summary
Tales of terror (1962): Three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M. Valdemar," the dying M. Valdemar employs a hypnotist to put him in a trance to spare him the pain of dying. Instead, M. Valdemar winds up stuck between the world of the living and the dead, and under the control of the hypnotistThe pit and the pendulum: Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the brutest torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive! Strange things then start to happen in the Medina castleThe raven: A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help
Technique
live action
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