Masque of the Red Death The (1964)
Masque of the Red Death The (1964)
Produced and directed by Roger Corman with a screenplay by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell (Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)) that was based on two Edgar Allan Poe stories (“The Masque of the Red Death” and “Hop-Frog”) this horror classic features Vincent Price as the tyrannical devil worshiping Prince Prospero Hazel Court as his castle-mate Juliana whom he convinces to sell her soul to become Satan’s bride Jane Asher as the pure Christian peasant girl Francesca who so captivates the prince that he takes her in protecting her from the scourge of the red death plague (which turns its victim’s faces red with dots of blood) David Weston as Francesca’s fiancĂ© Gino Nigel Green as her father Ludovico Patrick Magee as the prince’s “friend” and lecherous guest Alfredo Skip Martin as the dwarf Hop Toad and (child actress) Verina Greenlaw as the tiny dancer Esmeralda.
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