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A look back at the work of an iconic director whose work explored outsider cultures, Sixties psychedelia and gangland conflict as well as including some unforgettable adaptations of the work of Edgar Allen Poe. This strand shows some of the best of his work with Vincent Price and other charismatic stars like Dennis Hopper, George Segal, Robert De Niro, Boris Karloff, Peter Fonda and even William Shatner. It's a great chance to catch some rarely-seen classics. Corman's lush visuals are a knockout, but it's his sharp understanding of social themes that really brings this work to life.

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The House Of UsherThe Masque Of The Red Death
(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Cast: Shelley Winters, Robert De Niro, Pat Hingle, Don stroud, Diane Varsi, Bruce Dem, Clint Kimbrough)
An angry mother leads her sons on a bloody rampage through Depression-era America. Featuring an iconic performance by machine-gun-wielding Shelley Winters.

(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Richard Matheson, based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe.; Cast: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe)
A brother fiercely refuses to let his sister marry her fiance - but are his motives rooted in something darker than mere jealousy? A gothic exploration of obsession and hereditary madness.

(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Charles Beaumont; Cast: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt, Leo Gordon, Charles Barnes, Charles Beaumont, Katherine Smith, George Clayton Johnson, William F. Nolan, Phoebe Rowe, Bo Dodd, Walter Kurtz, Oceo Ritch, Jeanne Cooper)
A racist provocateur stirs up hatred and violence in a small town in the American South.

(Country: UK; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell; Cast: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee)
A cruel prince devotes himself to Satan and lives a life of excess, but just beyond his castle gates lurks a deadly plague.

(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Richard Matheson, based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.; Cast: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone, Patrick Westwood)
A man investigating his sister's early death grows increasingly suspicious in her widower's castle full of bizarre torture devices.

The IntruderThe Pit And The Pendulum
(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Writer: Richard Matheson, based on the poem by Edgar Allen Poe.; Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Olive Sturgess, Jack Nicholson)
Two aging wizards feud over a woman in this spectacular camp comedy based (very loosely) on Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem Lenore.

(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Cast: Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Edd Byrnes, Henry Silva, Spela Rozin)
Five criminals are sent to the Balkans to persuade an Italian general to fight the Nazis - with machine guns and lots of explosions.

(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Cast: Jason Robards, George Segal, Ralph Meeker, Jean Hale, Clint Richie, Frank Silvera, Joseph Campanella,)
A historical thriller about Al Capone's bloody war with Bugs Moran.

(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Cast: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Derek Francis, Oliver Johnston, Richard Vernon)
A dying woman vows to return from the grave - and, on doing so, is not too happy to find her husband remarried.

(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Cast: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse, Barboura Morris)
The experiences of a television director taking LSD for the first time.

(Country: US; Director: Roger Corman; Cast: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, Buck Taylor, Norman Alden, Michael J Pollard)
A gang of bikers run into trouble when looking for a stolen motorcycle in this iconic piece of Sixties cinema.


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