Pit and the Pendulum

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Pit And The Pendulum, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Pit And The Pendulum, 1961.

Visiting English Francis (John Kerr) dines with Spaniard Nicholas (Vincent Price), ex-husband of his mysteriously dead sister, and his sister (Luana Anders), joined by the doctor (Antony Carbone), who has revelations, in Roger Corman's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit And The Pendulum, 1961.

Not a bit of Edgar Allan Poe here but plenty of producer-director Roger Corman, bringing John Kerr (as Francis, from England) to Spain to meet Catherine (Luana Anders) then Nicholas (Vincent Price) Medina, who was married to his late sister, in The Pit And The Pendulum, 1961.

After dinner Catherine (Luana Anders) explains some family history to Francis (John Kerr), involving her brother Nicholas (Vincent Price), who portrays his own father in producer-director Roger Corman's freaky flashback, in The Pit And The Pendulum, 1961, loosely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe.

Vincent Price and Barbara Steele are a couple united by guilt and madness in Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961).