{"id":31732,"date":"2023-02-03T06:44:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T11:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31732"},"modified":"2023-02-03T06:44:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T11:44:41","slug":"the-raven-1963-starring-vincent-price-peter-lorre-boris-karloff-and-jack-nicholson-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31732","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Raven&#8221; (1963) starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z020323zview_theraven.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"763\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Raven <\/strong><\/em>(1963)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Roger Corman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Richard Matheson <\/strong>based on<em> &#8220;The Raven&#8221; <\/em>by<strong> Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:<strong> Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Jack Nicholson<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Leo Gordon <\/strong>(voice uncredited)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Wits and wizardry run a-fowl!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A talking raven shows up at the castle of Dr. Erasmus Craven (Price).\u00a0 It turns out the raven is actually Dr. Adolphus Bedlo (Lorre)!\u00a0 Bedlo was transformed into a raven by Dr. Scarabus (Karloff) when the two had a duel of magic.\u00a0 Craven is able to restore Bedlo to human form.\u00a0 They decide to go to Scarabus&#8217; castle for a confrontation.\u00a0 Bedlo wants revenge for being turned into a bird.\u00a0 Craven is on a mission to find his missing wife Lenore.<\/p>\n<p>Before it is over Bedlo, Craven and Scarabus will be in a battle of magic with the losers facing certain death!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Raven<\/em> is <em>very loosely<\/em> based on Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s poem.\u00a0 Director, Roger Corman, and writer, Richard Matheson wanted more humor and less terror for this film.\u00a0 It was shot in just 15 days and Corman allowed the actors to play loose with their dialogue.\u00a0 This suited Peter Lorre, who improvised many of his lines.\u00a0 Boris Karloff didn&#8217;t enjoy this method, while Vincent Price caught on quickly.\u00a0 It&#8217;s interesting to note that Peter Lore and Jack Nicholson reportedly didn&#8217;t get along when the cameras weren&#8217;t rolling.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight is the duel between Price and Karloff.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an extended sequence that kids of all ages will enjoy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>The Raven <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z020323zview_theraven2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"255\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Raven (1963) Director:\u00a0 Roger Corman Screenplay:\u00a0 Richard Matheson based on &#8220;The Raven&#8221; by Edgar Allan Poe Stars: Vincent Price,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,17,53,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31736,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions\/31736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}