Vincent Price

Vincent Price’s debut. He plays a henpecked inventor hoping to sell his plan for a new tractor. Constance Bennett plays the owner of a company of female concierges who manage wealthy men’s lives. She longs for an independent man. He longs for a submissive woman. You can see where it’s going.

Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) loves the dashing, yet ambitious Earl of Essex (Errol Flynn).

Richard III (Basil Rathbone) murders his way to the throne of England with the help of his executioner, Mord (Boris Karloff).

With the family facing bankruptcy, Price convinces his elderly father to sell the titular family home, planning to use his share of the proceeds to marry his cousin, Lindsay, and move to New York, but brother Sanders is convinced the house has a treasure hidden within its walls, and frames Price for murder.

The Song of Bernadette is a surprisingly well-done melodrama.

A detective (Dana Andrews) grows increasingly obsessed with the woman (Gene Tierney) whose murder he’s investigating.

A priest (Gregory Peck) spends his life growing a Catholic mission in China.

You won’t believe me when I tell you not to watch Shock.

The distant cousin (Vincent Price) of a young farm girl (Gene Tierney) invites her to live in his gothic mansion as a companion for his young daughter.

The Long Night starts well, only to lose its way in the third act.

Two porters (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello) become the part-time allies of the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.) in his quest to stop Dracula (Bela Lugosi) from reviving Frankenstein’s monster (Glenn Strange).

You know the story, but the casting will surprise you. Gene Kelly plays D’Artagnan, a rural Frenchman who travels to Paris hoping to join the musketeers. Upon arriving, he offends three of said musketeers, prompting back-to-back duels. Soldiers loyal to the nefarious Cardinal Richelieu, played by Vincent Price, interrupt said duels. D’Artagnan fights alongside the musketeers, winning their respect. The four then set out to foil a Richelieu plot to use Lady de Winter, played by top-billed Lana Turner, to incite a war with Britain.

In Central America, a Federal agent (Robert Taylor) tracking smugglers falls for a woman (Ava Gardner) whose husband is a suspect.

A Bedouin princess (Maureen O’Hara!) seeks the aid of the Pasha (Vincent Price) in avenging the death of her father.

Former office clerk Price devotes years of his life to forging a Spanish land grant giving his wife claim to the entire state of Arizona.

Gambler Robert Mitchum is coerced into traveling to a Mexican resort where he flirts with singer Jane Russell and befriends actor Vincent Price only to discover he’s part of deported gangster Raymond Burr’s deadly plot to reenter the United States.

Former lounge singer Jane Russell and her wealthy husband Vincent Price stopover in Las Vegas and become entangled in a murder investigation headed by Russell’s old-flame Victor Mature.

This story of a hitman pursuing a murder witness hiding out in Glacier National Park is not good, but may appeal to Vincent Price fans. To explain why, I must venture into spoiler territory.

An illusionist (Vincent Price) resorts to murder when his employer cheats him out of an opportunity to perform.

I remembered The Fly as a low-budget, early-1950s creature-feature. I was wrong on all counts.

Saddled with a bank-mandated accountant and publicist, traveling circus owner Victor Mature tries to keep his show afloat and ferret out a deadly saboteur.

The son of the original film’s protagonist takes up his father’s work, only to fall victim to a similar fate.

“Scream! Scream for your lives!”

In a sprawling mansion, a mystery writer and her guests are terrorized by a masked killer searching for a fortune in stolen securities.

A man (Vincent Price) believes his family is cursed with madness as his house crumbles around him.

In the late 19th century, an arms manufacturer, his daughter, her fiancé, and a government agent (Charles Bronson) find themselves prisoners aboard a futuristic air ship helmed by the enigmatic Robur (Vincent Price).

A nobleman (Vincent Price) is convinced his late wife (Barbara Steele) is haunting him.

Tales of Terror is an uneven film. Director Roger Corman and screenwriter Richard Matheson give us three stories culled from the works of Edgar Allan Poe: one good, one bad, and one that’s just okay.

Richard III (Vincent Price) grows madder and madder as he murders his way to the throne of England.

Recently turned into a raven, a magician (Peter Lorre) talks a fellow magician (Vincent Price) into helping him exact revenge on the magician (Boris Karloff) responsible.

A man (Vincent Price) returns to the house inhabited by his ancestor, a warlock burned alive 100 years ago.

A trilogy of Nathaniel Hawthorne adaptations starring Vincent Price: “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, and “The House of the Seven Gables”.

A spectacular disappointment given the talent involved, this would-be comedy can barely generate the occasional chuckle, let alone a full-blown laugh.

A scientist (Vincent Price) finds himself the last surviving human after a global epidemic transforms the world into vampire-like creatures.

A prince (Vincent Price) revels in debauchery while a plague ravages the surrounding countryside.

A nobleman (Vincent Price) becomes obsessed with the idea that his dead wife still lives.

Witchfinder General (also known as The Conqueror Worm in the USA) is a solid British Horror boosted considerably by a tour-de-force performance from Vincent Price.

The Oblong Box suffers from an identity crisis.

A detective investigating a string of vampire-like murders uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy involving mysterious surgeon Vincent Price and shadowy government official Christopher Lee.

A doctor (Vincent Price) seeks revenge in the form of biblical plagues on the nine surgeons he holds responsible for his wife’s death.

An actor (Vincent Price) exacts revenge on his critics with murders inspired by the plays of William Shakespeare.

After suffering a nervous breakdown, an actor (Vincent Price) reluctantly revives his Dr. Death character at the urging of his screenwriter friend (Peter Cushing) and producer (Robert Quarry).

Hitman Dennis Hopper goes rogue when he kidnaps target Jodie Foster instead of killing her, putting them both in the mob’s crosshairs.