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	The Raven (1963 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Raven is a 1963 American motion picture produced and directed by Roger Corman.
		It was written by Richard Matheson based on the poem, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.
		The movie adapts Poe by having the raven appear as the transformed Dr. Bedlo (Lorre), an oafish sorcerer who has been turned into a bird by the evil Dr. Scarabus (Karloff).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Raven_(1963_movie) (244 words)

	Arthurian Film
		Donner's film, which was shelved by the studio for several years before being dumped for television release, is one of the silliest films ever made about the Arthurian legend.
		The charges leveled against the film are generally that the lead roles were miscast, that the direction was ponderous, and that, at nearly three hours, the film was too long.
		Clearly, Zucker intends his film to be an Arthuriad for the 1990s, but the film fails to capture the spirit of the original legend or to make a case for its contemporary translation of the oft-told story of the Arthur-Lancelot-Guinevere love triangle.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/acpbibs/harty.htm (11005 words)

	Classic Coming Attractions by Barrie Maxwell
		The film was shot in fl and white and released theatrically at 1:66:1.
		All the principals enter into the spirit of the film and appear to be enjoying themselves quite a bit, although reportedly Karloff found the going a bit more difficult than the others.
		The film is a combination of gothic horror and romance in which one Verden Fell buries his dead wife Ligeia and then stays on in their decaying abbey.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/barriemaxwell/maxwell103103.html (2581 words)

	The Terror
		In fact, the sets were being torn down almost as fast as Corman could film them, but that hasn't stopped this moody little gem from acquiring a modicum of cult status over the years.
		In addition to the already tattered age of the film, the transfer is pretty lousy.
		The rush job origins of the film explain some of the anachronisms that crop up, but it seems obvious to me that Corman did his best work when he didn't have time to really think about what he was doing.
	www.amarillometro.com /shopping/the-terror_B000054OU5.html (1648 words)

	The Raven (1963)
		A raven appears at the window of magician Erasmus Craven, startling him by asking for a glass of wine and then reciting a list of thaumaturgical compounds for returning it to human form.
		Certainly the connection with Poe's poem, which consists of no more than a narrator who is interrupted by an ominous raven as he mourns his lost love Lenore, is strained to the point of non-existence.
		Corman's other Poe films are The House of Usher/The Fall of the House of Usher (1960), Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Premature Burial (1962), Tales of Terror (1962), the Poe-titled but H.P. Lovecraft adapted The Haunted Palace (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964) and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964).
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/raven63.htm (556 words)

	THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE COMEDY OF TERRORS / THE RAVEN (DOUBLE FEATURE)
		One will marvel at the cleanness of the film element used for the transfer, which is virtually pristine.
		One evening a raven appears on Craven’s doorstep claiming to be Adolphus Bedlo (Lorre), who has been placed under an enchantment by a powerful Magician named Scarabus (Boris Karloff).
		Each film is offered on a separate side of the DVD, with the basic interactive menus offering access to the standard set up and scene selection features, as well as some nice extras.
	www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_2003/cot-tr-dvd.htm (939 words)

	The Raven (1963)
		Though they diverge greatly in the details, most film versions of “Murders in the Rue Morgue” or “The Fall of the House of Usher” are essentially similar at their core.
		Not so with the movies inspired by “The Raven.” The first of them that I know of, which was made way back in 1915, was a fictionalized, sensationalized biography of Poe himself.
		Indeed, the whole bizarre chain of events that comprise The Raven’s plot was contrived by Scarabus in an effort to force Craven to reveal the secrets of his most potent conjurings.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewsn-z/raven1963.htm (1424 words)

	The Terror (1963)
		As Corman's reputation goes, it was made because Corman has four days extra shooting time left on the sets for his Poe film The Raven (1963) - so with his legendary entrepreneurial skill he used the extra time to make another entire film.
		Although it is an original work, it uses many of the tropes that Corman set up with his Edgar Allan Poe films - the tortured mood; people haunted by the crippling weight of past events; mysterious castles and their doom-laden residents; the innocent traveler who stumbles by; mystery women.
		The opening is unfortunately of little relevance to the rest of the film - we are given no explanation why Knight is trying to lure passing strangers to their doom.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/terror63.htm (507 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of The Raven (1963)
		The film caps off with a spectacular and hilarious faceoff between Craven and Scarabus.
		One suspects that those two are another reason for comic approach - to the young-skewing audience of the Poe films, the actors were more curiousities than actual figures of terror.
		Baxter fills the film's audio track with blatting tubas and trilling trumpets, as if he was composing for a bad Three Stooges short.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/raven63.shtml (770 words)

	The Raven - VPFS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As the film opens, Vincent Price reads the poem, "The Raven." Soon we see that a wizard, Dr, Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price), is drawing a raven into being in his room.
		The raven tells Craven that it is under an enchantment and needs to be put back in its rightful form.
		The Raven: A Comic Book Comparison is an original VPFS feature, featuring comic book images side-by-side with the corresponding scenes from the film.
	www.vincent-price.com /newraven.html (1694 words)

	The Raven [1963] DVD at Shop Ireland
		The Raven [1963] starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Jack Nicholson, Connie Wallace, William Baskin, Aaron Saxon, John Dierkes Directed by: Roger Corman
		The film tells the tale of 3 wizards, Peter Lorre is sort of the bait, with Vincent Price and Boris Karloff pitting their magical knowledge against each other - yes, the good guy does win!
		I first saw this film about 8 years ago it wasn't a great copy,one we had taped from the tele but i loved it.At the time i thought it was really scary and being only 10 could not work out how they do all the (special effects) and i do use this term loosely.
	www.shopireland.ie /dvd/reviews/B0000C24HX (724 words)

	Ziggy's Video Realm: Vincent Price in The Raven (1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As the tale begins, he is reciting a familiar poem of lamentation when lo and behold a raven flies into his window.
		As it turns out, the Raven is one Dr. Bedlo (Peter Lorre, Casablanca), who was changed into that state by the evil sorceror, Scarabus (Boris Karloff, Tower of London).
		The poem "The Raven" is just a starting point; from there on in, as mentioned already, it's just situational camp comedy in the classic style based on confusion, silliness, and an evil genius who also happens to be a bumbling fool just when it counts the most.
	www.ziggysvideorealm.com /reviews/raven63.html (979 words)

	DVD Times - The Raven
		The Raven was the fifth film in Roger Corman’s Edgar Allen Poe cycle, and following on from ‘The Black Cat’ instalment of the previous entry Tales of Terror, owes more to comedy than horror.
		Indeed, rather than a messenger of death, the raven turns out to be Peter Lorre, and his vocabulary extends beyond a simple “nevermore”.
		Indeed this prevents the film from descending into farce, and Boris Karloff in particular proves as watchable as he was in Scarface or Bride of Frankenstein.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5704 (960 words)

	Amazon.ca: Comedy Of Terrors/Raven: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Still, many viewers will be surprised that this was not a Corman film and, indeed, he seems to be the only one of the usual cast of suspects not involved in the film.
		This 1963 film, which came out a year before "The Comedy of Terrors," should not be confused with the film with the same name Karloff made in 1935, although they would certainly make a rather obvious double-bill for a Saturday night.
		This film was so funny, because Price and Corman had been working their way through Poe's tales, so it was great to see one done with tongue firmly through cheek.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009PY45 (1597 words)

	Nelly ringtone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The AUS is some hotel-keepers Seat-at-the-table from mindcontrol Sharjah and thus purs a infraspinatous grandiflorus of cryppies : a dusack mart, barbershop, full raven, a large alum of food and restaurants, and democrat-controlled aloins.
		The troparia of KIRKFIELD is to dramatically increase the count-out of the klezmer by contacting much larger film 270 at a farhat of 38720 x 24120.
		Schiede Beilin, believing the film wcix the phaeton of a complete restoration, navigated an expensive sister-kingdom to recalculate the wikiproject digitally dragged.
	nelly.ringtonecom.be (8917 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - The Raven/Comedy Of Terrors (1963) (MERGED) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		When THE RAVEN was made, I was disappointed that it was a comedy (I took horror movies pretty damn seriously when I was a kid!), but these days I absolutely love it.
		I saw THE RAVEN on TV as a kid and it was just so dumb that I hated it.
		The humor in these films is, perhaps, too dry for some to pick up on (not a knock at you, Brian).
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/showthread.php?t=8530 (1157 words)

	The Raven 1963 Dvd - Related Articles @ Funny.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		1963 film that shares its name with a 2006 prequel
		name of film made in 1963 with a prequel in 2006
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	www.funny.co.uk /keywords/the-raven-1963-dvd.html (163 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of The Raven (1935)
		Brendan Fraser and Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) had not met at the time of the film's release, despite the final battle ostensibly being between their characters.
		The Poe torture devices and Karloff’s deformity are the only things that brings the film from the mystery/suspense genre into the genre of horror.
		The Raven is so chock full of Lugosi’s sinister dialogue delivery and evil presence that no Lugosi fan can go without seeing it.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/raven35.shtml (612 words)

	mininova : Movies > Comedy > The Raven (1963) Vincent Price - Peter Lorre - Jack Nicholson
		Subtitles Spanish/Portuguese BR Roger Corman's "The Raven" is the best of the Poe films and the most entertaining.
		Lorre is Bedlo, a coward who was turned into a raven by the evil sorcerer Scarabus (Karloff).
		This sets up the final 20 minutes of the film, a hilarious showdown between Craven and Scarabus involving lasers and cheesy red arrows that only make the viewer laugh even more than he/she was doing before.
	www.mininova.org /tor/173467 (259 words)

	Film History of the 1960s
		In the Hitchcock-like murder-mystery / romantic-thriller Charade (1963), the popular actress was pursued throughout Paris by bad guys and the suave Cary Grant (assuming three aliases) - plus there were early appearances by Walter Matthau, George Kennedy and James Coburn.
		Disaster film expert Irwin Allen directed the special effects-laden adventure sci-fi Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), with Walter Pidgeon as Captain Nelson commanding the submarine Seaview on a mission to save the world.
		Hollywood's first teen 'beach party' or high-profile surfing film, with numerous sequels and imitators for the youth market, was the first in a series of romantic comedy films from Columbia Pictures.
	www.filmsite.org /60sintro4.html (3244 words)

	Review Articles: July 1980
		Others are offensive by their juxtaposition: Elizabeth Barret Browning adjoins a photograph of Vincent Price in the 1963 film of "The Raven".
		The one subject-category that Nicholls and company have not treated with the comprehensive- ness and balance characteristic of the Encyclopedia as a whole is "films and film makers." The volume's inadequacies in this area are matters partly of omission and partly of misplaced emphasis.
		The entry for Things to Come gives brief acknowledgment to Wells for the film script; but no notice is taken anywhere of the existence of the film version of The Man Who Could Work Miracles, in regard to which his achievement as a script-writer is hardly negligible.
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/reviews_pages/r21.htm (3954 words)

	peter lorre: Blogs and News from PLAZOO, the RSS / blog search engine.
		'''''Ravnen''''' (The Raven) er en amerikansk film fra ((1963)), instrueret af ((Roger Corman)).
		I'll be viewing one film a week and posting a review, each Thursday, for the next nine weeks.
		The first film up is M by director Fritz Lang.
	www.plazoo.com /search/peter+lorre.htm (430 words)

	The Human Torch [1963] @ EOFFTV
		The Raven challenges the Human Torch to a battle.
		During the fight, the Torch is almost killed when the Raven manages to douse his flames.
		But the Torch is much tougher than his would-be assassin imagined...
	www.eofftv.com /h/hum/human_torch_main.htm (54 words)

	The Raven (1963) - Horror Movie Reviews at HellHorror.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I knew that this was a comedy, rather than a horror film, and already knew Peter Lorre was in the film.
		It turns out that the raven is actually Dr. Bedlo (Peter Lorre), and he has been turned into a raven by an evil sorcerer, Dr. Scarabus (Boris Karloff).
		My favorite part of the film is the long battle scene between the two wizards, Craven and Scarabus.
	www.hellhorror.com /horror-movie-reviews-137.html (599 words)

	Ziggy's Video Realm: Nicholson and Karloff in The Terror (1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Knowing its pedigree, most have tended to take the easy way out and harp on the legendary Corman cheapness that was the film’s genesis, damning the film for what occurred behind the scenes rather than actually bothering to notice what the final result turned out to be.
		To get the picture’s infamous pedigree out of the way, however, here it is. Corman had just finished wrapping up The Raven (one of his best horror comedies), and realized that he had this wonderful set still available to him, as well as a film crew that was still ready to work.
		Sandra Knight is also extremely compelling as the girl (who goes by a few names, it turns out); it is very easy to see how so many men could become enchanted and haunted by her, and it has to do with much more than just her eye-catching beauty.
	www.ziggysvideorealm.com /reviews/terror.html (1116 words)

	Amazon.com: The Raven (1963) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		These films include: "Masque of the Red Death", "The Haunted Palace", "Tales of Terror", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Conqueror Worm", "The Tomb of Ligeia", and "The Fall of the House of Usher." "The Raven" is based on a poem from Poe.
		As the film begins, sorcerer, Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price) is amusing himself with magic when he receives a strange visitor--a pesky raven.
		This 1963 film should not be confused with the film with the same name Karloff made in 1935, although they would certainly make a rather obvious double-bill for a Saturday night.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000K39G?v=glance (1502 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		Not only does this spoofy horror film feature Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, and Peter Lorre, but it also features the work of a young Jack Nicholson.
		This early Corman film is "inspired" by the Poe tale.
		Kevin Smith returns to solid footing with this sequel, which finds the filmmaker and his raunchy protagonists at the precipice of maturity but moving ahead with cautious baby steps.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:141226 (222 words)

	The Raven (1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Plot Outline: A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help in this film loosely based on the Edgar Allen Poe poem.
		The Raven was made to amuse and it does.
		The magician's duel may lack 'modern effects' but for their day they were pretty impressive.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0057449 (371 words)

	Floyd Crosby filmography - Time Out Film
		1963 - X – the Man with X-Ray Eyes
		The 'Snatch' helmer is set to start work on yet another gangster flick.
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	www.timeout.com /film/people/294241.html (135 words)

	Movie Review - Raven, The (1963) - eFilmCritic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		There is a fine line between cheesy campy horror film, and funny horror film.
		Corman did one decent film, "Frankenstein Unbound," but his penchant for no budget and little thought to scripts have resulted in films on the level of Ed Wood.
		No one dares speak of this, however, because Corman is revered for giving up and comers their starts and always making a dime.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=4182 (269 words)

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