The Pit and the Pendulum

Film • 1961 • 1h 20m

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

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Status: Released
Release: August 12, 1961 (65 years ago)
Runtime: 1h 20m
Language: English
Origins: United States
AKA: Edgar Allan Poe's Pit and the Pendulum
Companies: Alta Vista Productions

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The Pit And The Pendulum
Read the Empire Movie review of The Pit And The Pendulum. A highly effective merging of star power (both in front and behind the camera) and finely honed...
The Pit and the Pendulum review – Philip French on Roger Corman's low-budget, hair-raising Poe adaptation
This Blu-ray version with plenty of extras does full justice to Corman's low-budget, hair-raising Poe adaptation, writes Philip French
Pit and the Pendulum
Corman at his intoxicating best, drawing a seductive mesh of sexual motifs from Poe's story through a fine Richard Matheson script. Vincent Price is superbly to
Pit and the Pendulum
Pit and the Pendulum is an elaboration of the short Poe classic about blood-letting in 16th- century Spain. The result is a physically stylish, imaginatively...