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The Comedy Of Terrors DVD & Blu-ray

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray and DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD 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 gleefully macabre tale which brings together genre greats Vincent Price Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff Price plays Waldo Trumbull a perpetually 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 landlord Mr Black (Basil Rathbone) threatens to put him out on the street for falling behind with the rent Trumbull together with his reluctant and bumbling assistant Felix Gillie (Lorre)
hatches an ill-advised plan to kill two birds with one stone so to speak The penultimate directorial effort from Tourneur The Comedy of Terrors bears many of the hallmarks of the master filmmaker s earlier works whilst adding a healthy dash of humour to the proceedings Careful you might just die laughing!SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSHigh Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature transferred from original film elements by MGMOriginal Mono 20 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingAudio Commentary with Price historian David Del ValleExtensive archive interview with Vincent PriceWhispering in Distant Chambers The Nightfall of Jacques Tourneur a specially-commissioned video essay by David Cairns
which charts the career of director TourneurRichard Matheson Storyteller an archive featurette on the Comedy of Terrors writerOriginal Theatrical TrailerReversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Paul ShipperCollector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Chris Fujiwara author of Jacques Tourneur The Cinema of Nightfall illustrated with original archive stills and posters
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD From Jacques Tourneur director of numerous horror classics including Cat People I Walked with a Zombie & Night of the Demon comes The Comedy of Terrors a gleefully macabre tale which brings together genre greats Vincent Price Peter Lorre & Boris Karloff Price plays Waldo Trumbull a perpetually 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 landlord Mr Black (Basil Rathbone) threatens to put him out on the street for falling behind with the rent Trumbull together with his reluctant & bumbling assistant Felix Gillie (Lorre) hatches an ill-advised plan to kill two birds with one stone so to speak The penultimate directorial effort from Tourneur The Comedy of Terrors bears many of the hallmarks of the master filmmaker s earlier works whilst adding a healthy dash of humour to the proceedings Careful you might just die laughing!SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSHigh Definition Blu-ray (1080p) & Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature transferred from original film elements by MGMOriginal Mono 20 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles for the deaf & hard of hearing Audio Commentary with Price historian David Del Valle Extensive archive interview with Vincent Price Whispering in Distant Chambers The Nightfall of Jacques Tourneur a specially-commissioned video essay by David Cairns which charts the career of director Tourneur Richard Matheson Storyteller an archive featurette on the Comedy of Terrors writer Original Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original & newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper Collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Chris Fujiwara author of Jacques Tourneur The Cinema of Nightfall illustrated with original archive stills & posters

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