The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
(Edgar Allan Poe's Tomb of Ligeia)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 81m
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Oliver Johnston
Synopsis:
A widower living in a ruined abbey has become an eccentric recluse convinced that his wife's spirit lives on. A daughter of the local nobility, fascinated by his morbid despair, marries him, but her rival guards him fiercely through her familiar, a black cat.
Review:
The last of Corman's Poe adaptations is also one of the better ones: great production design with its Egyptian statues like something imagined by Goya, a charismatic and erotic performance from Shepherd in a dual role, and a plot which, though not always very clear, at least does not involve premature burial, though it flirts with the idea. Corman assays some ostentatious compositions by interposing ironmongery and flames between the characters and his camera, and the abbey interiors brim with atmosphere, even if there is rather too much cat flinging.
(Edgar Allan Poe's Tomb of Ligeia)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 81m
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Oliver Johnston
Synopsis:
A widower living in a ruined abbey has become an eccentric recluse convinced that his wife's spirit lives on. A daughter of the local nobility, fascinated by his morbid despair, marries him, but her rival guards him fiercely through her familiar, a black cat.
Review:
The last of Corman's Poe adaptations is also one of the better ones: great production design with its Egyptian statues like something imagined by Goya, a charismatic and erotic performance from Shepherd in a dual role, and a plot which, though not always very clear, at least does not involve premature burial, though it flirts with the idea. Corman assays some ostentatious compositions by interposing ironmongery and flames between the characters and his camera, and the abbey interiors brim with atmosphere, even if there is rather too much cat flinging.
(Edgar Allan Poe's Tomb of Ligeia)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/2.35:1 81m
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Oliver Johnston
Synopsis:
A widower living in a ruined abbey has become an eccentric recluse convinced that his wife's spirit lives on. A daughter of the local nobility, fascinated by his morbid despair, marries him, but her rival guards him fiercely through her familiar, a black cat.
Review:
The last of Corman's Poe adaptations is also one of the better ones: great production design with its Egyptian statues like something imagined by Goya, a charismatic and erotic performance from Shepherd in a dual role, and a plot which, though not always very clear, at least does not involve premature burial, though it flirts with the idea. Corman assays some ostentatious compositions by interposing ironmongery and flames between the characters and his camera, and the abbey interiors brim with atmosphere, even if there is rather too much cat flinging.