talisencrw
This was great--having Vincent Price do Richard III in the midst of his great run for Roger Corman. Well worth seeing--mine was on my blu Vincent Price Collection, Volume III.
Tower of London
- History
- Horror
10/24/1962
80
Do you have the courage to spend 83 minutes in the Tower of London?
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.
- Director:
Cast
Vincent PriceRichard of Gloucester- Michael PateSir Ratcliffe
Joan FreemanLady Margaret- Robert BrownSir Justin
- Bruce GordonEarl of Buckingham
- Joan CamdenAnne
- Richard HaleTyrus
- Sandra KnightMistress Shore
- Charles MacaulayClarence
- Justice WatsonEdward IV
- Sarah SelbyQueen
- Donald LosbyPrince Richard
- Sara TaftRichard's mother
- Eugene MazzolaEdward V
- Morris AnkrumThe Archbishop
- Gene RothThe Tailor
Reviews
Geronimo1967
I think this might have been Vincent Price's first leading role in a film here, and he actually carries it off quite well - if a little too hammily. His elder brother King Edward IV is dying and Prince Richard of Gloucester is determined to usurp his sons and claim the English crown for himself. What ensues now are three stories illustrating his ability to be cruel, to manipulate and to murder - but each act comes with it's own form of spiritual retribution from the victims. The first is a lady-in-waiting whom he wants to discredit the paternity of the new Edward V, then his own brother, the Duke of Clarence, (Charles Macaulay) before, finally, the reckoning with the victims the blame for which history is still uncertain it can lay at his d...