Vincent Price

No pun intended.

But also, like, it's got this weird Vincent Price framing device that doesn't really make any sense.

And, again, he kind of just...

His character is odd in this, for sure.

OK, so Nate, what's your history with this movie? Because you brought this one to the table this year.

Yeah.

So I think I mentioned on the podcast before a couple of times that like I really enjoy Vincent Price and I really enjoy the movies that he kind of makes after this, especially with like Roger Corman, the whole Poe.

They call it the Poe cycle.

You

told me you were going to be on the Ford Theater last Friday night, so I tuned in and heard Claudette Colbert and Vincent Price.

You weren't even on.

Well, Phil,

Oh, hello, Mr. Markle.

Uh, Mr. Markle, uh, this is Jack Benny.

Yes, Mr. Benny, what can I do for you? Well, I understand that Claudette Colbert and Vincent Price are appearing on your Ford Theater program.

That's right.

As you know, who's voicing the...

Vincent Price.

Yeah, which I'm thinking probably wouldn't be particularly famous then.

Yeah, I wouldn't think so.

He might have been in, is it Laura, I think is an early kind of throwback Nora.

He might have been in that by then, but he wasn't the Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Price at that point.

Yeah, yeah.

And, you know, this movie has an $800,000 budget.

There's a lot of things in here that pay homage to other people.

Like Uncle Vincent was actually an homage to Vincent Price.

who she originally wanted for that role, but he turned it down because he said the material was way too racy.

Yes.

Is it just villains are from London, apparently?

I think it's possible because he's the only one that had the same feel that she wanted.

She wanted Vincent Price for that role.

She did.

It was interesting.

And Vincent Price...

Yeah, Vincent Price was...

That's one of his last projects.

Rest in peace, Vincent Price.

He's the guy that does the rap part of Michael Jackson's thriller.

He was known to do a lot of horror movies, so for him to be involved, that was kind of a big deal back then.

lamps.

Oh, is that Vincent Price? It is.

Oh, my God.

I never noticed that.

Oh, shit.

That is.

Lucille Ball and Vincent Price on the- Look at the wood paneling.

I've never noticed that detail before.

And the same gets to be said about the other two major characters, which is Peter Vincent, who not that he's essentially this throwback character to obvious.

He's very obviously very heavy handedly Peter Cushing and Vincent Price like that.

Yeah.

And that's you hear that on anyone who talks about this.

side of life.

Vincent Price with tales of mystery and suspense.

Cicely Tyson with stories about love, hate, and related things.

Richard Widmark.

I

figure this house is owned by Vincent Price.

The pitch is so foul, though, isn't it? And it started to hit the camera guy in the camera position off to the first base side of home plate.

He definitely turned around and hit and went out.