A rival attempt by a company called Admiral to muscle in on A. I. P's versions of Poe. Instead of Edgar Allan we get Vincent Price in a story by Maupassant, with sets by Roger Corman's usual designer Daniel Haller.
It all looks very pretty in Technicolor (Nancy Kovacs looks most fetching in a succession of bright pastels, and the plaster cast of her is eerily employed), Price is always watchable, but without Corman's direction and Floyd Crosby's photography it all plays rather like a TV production.
It all looks very pretty in Technicolor (Nancy Kovacs looks most fetching in a succession of bright pastels, and the plaster cast of her is eerily employed), Price is always watchable, but without Corman's direction and Floyd Crosby's photography it all plays rather like a TV production.