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A Tribute to Vincent Price
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Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor best known for his performances in horror films, although his career spanned other genres, including film noir, drama, mystery, thriller, and comedy. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television. He was born and raised near St. Louis, Missouri.

He was an art collector and arts consultant with a degree in art history, and he lectured and wrote books on the subject. The Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College is named in his honor. He was also a noted gourmet cook.


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Movie: Service de Luxe ( 1939 )
The manager of a service agency for the wealthy clashes with--and falls for--an inventor who is seeking funding for a new kind of tractor.
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Movie: The Invisible Man Returns ( 1940 )
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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Movie: The House of the Seven Gables ( 1940 )
Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.
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Movie: The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 )
14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.
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Movie: The Eve of St. Mark ( 1944 )
Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off the Japanese along the Philippine shoreline. The situation becomes hopeless for Quizz and his fellow gunners and it's either flee or hold their positions and provide cover for escape...Read all
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Movie: The Keys of the Kingdom ( 1944 )
A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
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Movie: Laura ( 1944 )
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
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Movie: Shock ( 1946 )
A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.
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Movie: Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 )
A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
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Movie: Dragonwyck ( 1946 )
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
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Movie: The Web ( 1947 )
An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer's life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.
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Movie: The Long Night ( 1947 )
Police surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation.
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Movie: Moss Rose ( 1947 )
Set in turn-of-the-century London, a woman trying to solve the mystery of a friend's murder finds that she may be the next victim.
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Movie: Up in Central Park ( 1948 )
A newspaper reporter and the daughter of an immigrant maintenance man help expose political corruption in New York City.
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Movie: Rogues' Regiment ( 1948 )
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
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Movie: The Bribe ( 1949 )
Federal agent Rigby, in Central America to trace stolen plane engines, falls for the gorgeous wife of the chief suspect.
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Movie: Bagdad ( 1950 )
An English-educated Bedouin princess returns to Bagdad to find her father murdered, a corrupt ruling Pasha in charge and various local factions warring for control of the Caliphate.
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Movie: The Baron of Arizona ( 1950 )
Master swindler James Reavis painstakingly spends years forging documents and land grants that will make his wife and him undisputed owners of the entire territory of Arizona.
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Movie: Champagne for Caesar ( 1950 )
In order to get even with the pompous president of a soap company, an eccentric genius goes on his quiz show in order to bankrupt his company.
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Movie: Curtain Call at Cactus Creek ( 1950 )
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
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Movie: Adventures of Captain Fabian ( 1951 )
A sea captain becomes involved with a servant girl in early New Orleans. She sees him as a way to gain access into wealthy households.
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Movie: His Kind of Woman ( 1951 )
A deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle.
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Movie: The Las Vegas Story ( 1952 )
The arrival in Las Vegas of a businessman and his glamorous wife creates a complex web of murder and deceit.
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Movie: House of Wax ( 1953 )
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
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Movie: Dangerous Mission ( 1954 )
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
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Movie: The Mad Magician ( 1954 )
An illusionist becomes homicidal when his best kept magic secrets are stolen by his rival.
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Movie: Son of Sinbad ( 1955 )
Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.
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Movie: Serenade ( 1956 )
Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. He debuts at Lardelli's Italian restaurant in San Francisco, where he is spotted by Kendall Hale, a society girl who enjoys launching young artists while making them her lovers before dumping them after use. Damon is no exception to the rule: he becomes fa...Read all
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Movie: The Fly ( 1958 )
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
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Movie: House on Haunted Hill ( 1959 )
A millionaire offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in a large, spooky, rented house overnight with him and his wife.
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Movie: The Tingler ( 1959 )
An obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.
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Movie: The Bat ( 1959 )
A crazed killer known as "The Bat" is on the loose in a mansion full of people.
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Movie: Return of the Fly ( 1959 )
Philippe Delambre, the now-adult son of "The Fly", does some transportation experimentation of his own.
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Movie: House of Usher ( 1960 )
Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.
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Movie: The Pit and the Pendulum ( 1961 )
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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Movie: Master of the World ( 1961 )
In 1868, an American scientist and his team become hostages of fanatical pacifist Robur who uses his airship Albatross to destroy military targets on Earth.
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Movie: Queen of the Nile ( 1964 )
Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.
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Movie: Confessions of an Opium Eater ( 1962 )
In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.
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Movie: Tower of London ( 1962 )
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.
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Movie: Tales of Terror ( 1962 )
Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.
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Movie: The Raven ( 1963 )
A magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help.
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Movie: Convicts 4 ( 1962 )
After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko (Ben Gazzara) is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora Prison where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.
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Movie: Diary of a Madman ( 1963 )
An evil spirit leaves the body of his human host, a criminal on death-row, and sneaks into the body of his next human host, a French magistrate.
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Movie: Rage of the Buccaneers ( 1961 )
Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.
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Movie: Twice-Told Tales ( 1963 )
Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the first story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of himself, his fiancee and his best friend. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father inoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In t...Read all
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Movie: The Comedy of Terrors ( 1964 )
Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.
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Movie: The Last Man on Earth ( 1964 )
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
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Movie: The Masque of the Red Death ( 1964 )
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
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Movie: The Tomb of Ligeia ( 1965 )
A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.
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Movie: The Haunted Palace ( 1964 )
Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.
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Movie: City in the Sea ( 1965 )
In 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.
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Movie: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine ( 1965 )
A skirt-chasing spy and a millionaire bachelor must foil mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot's plot to use his army of bikini-clad robots to seduce wealthy men into signing over their assets.
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Movie: Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs ( 1966 )
Disgraced SIC agent Bill Dexter teams up with bumbling doormen Franco and Ciccio to stop Dr. Goldfoot from using his bikini-clad robot girls to blow up high-ranking NATO generals.
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Movie: The Jackals ( 1967 )
Bad bank robber falls in love with granddaughter of miner he and his men planned to rob of gold, has change of heart.
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Movie: House of 1,000 Dolls ( 1968 )
A couple meets their friend in Tangiers who's looking for his kidnapped girlfriend. As they help investigate, dark forces surrounding a nightclub act are revealed to be part of a sinister human trafficking operation.
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Movie: Witchfinder General ( 1968 )
During the English Civil War, a young Roundhead seeks vengeance against a vicious witch-hunter and his henchman, who have terrorized the soldier's fiancée and wrongfully executed her uncle.
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Movie: More Dead Than Alive ( 1969 )
Released from prison after 18 years, notorious gunslinger 'Killer' Cain is a peaceful reformed man but the Old West has died and he cannot adapt to the modern West where some unpaid moral debts and old troubles resurface.
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Movie: The Oblong Box ( 1969 )
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Sir Edward occasionally escapes and causes havoc around the town.
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Movie: Scream and Scream Again ( 1970 )
A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London. The police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
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Movie: Cry of the Banshee ( 1970 )
In 1500s England, a cruel witch-hunting magistrate, who often tortures innocent villagers for his entertainment, runs afoul of a witch who conjures a banshee to kill the magistrate and his family.
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Movie: Mooch ( 1974 )
A dog named Mooch comes to Hollywood and tries to make it in show business with the help of Zsa Zsa Gabor (narrator).
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Movie: The Abominable Dr. Phibes ( 1971 )
Doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.
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Movie: Theater of Blood ( 1973 )
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
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Movie: Dr. Phibes Rises Again ( 1972 )
The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.
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Movie: Madhouse ( 1974 )
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
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Movie: The Devil's Triangle ( 1971 )
A documentary exploring the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of the ocean between Bermuda, Miami and Cuba into which many boats and planes have mysteriously disappeared over the years.
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Movie: Michael Jackson: Thriller ( 1983 )
A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now.
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Movie: The Whales of August ( 1987 )
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
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Movie: From a Whisper to a Scream ( 1987 )
In a small Tennessee town, a historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.
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Movie: Dead Heat ( 1988 )
A cop is killed investigating a strange case of resurrected corpses. His partner and a pathologist resurrect him, but he only has a limited time before he starts to decompose, and he uses it to chase down the diabolical man who killed him.
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Movie: Catchfire ( 1990 )
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life, running from town to town and switching identities along the way, but she cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief hit man sent after her.