{"id":15973,"date":"2023-10-21T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15973"},"modified":"2023-10-21T22:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T02:41:16","slug":"the-raven-1963-roger-corman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15973","title":{"rendered":"The Raven (1963, Roger Corman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corman the year after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15297\">The Intruder<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11489\">Tales of Terror<\/a><\/em>, same year as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/528\">X<\/a><\/em>, lightens things up with a very silly Poe comedy.  Based on the opening poem and magician Vincent Price casually drawing with light in his living room, you don&#8217;t get a sense of the movie&#8217;s tone, but as soon as the raven transforms into Peter Lorre you know what you&#8217;re in for.<\/p>\n<p><em>Adventurers Price, Lorre, and their kids Jack Nicholson and Olive Sturgess:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/raven1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/raven2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Rival magician Boris Karloff has got the traitor Lenore (Hazel Court), and speaking of traitors, Lorre has been sent to retrieve Price by claiming to be in trouble.  There&#8217;s a henchman named Grimes; Price zaps his brains with magic finger-bolts.  Lorre gets turned into goo during the ensuing magician&#8217;s duel, I think the kids survive, and Price goes back to his happy place: giving soliloquies to birds.<\/p>\n<p><em>Price and the gang are all good but the real MVP is the trained raven:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/raven3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/raven4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corman the year after The Intruder and Tales of Terror, same year as X, lightens things up with a very silly Poe comedy. Based on the opening poem and magician Vincent Price casually drawing with light in his living room, you don&#8217;t get a sense of the movie&#8217;s tone, but as soon as the raven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,239,1139,316,216,1712,46,886],"class_list":["post-15973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-birds","tag-boris-karloff","tag-edgar-allen-poe","tag-magic","tag-peter-lorre","tag-roger-corman","tag-vincent-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15986,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15973\/revisions\/15986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}