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  1. The Oblong Box is a 1969 British gothic horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Alister Williamson. This was the first film to star both Price and Lee. Taking its title from the 1844 short story "The Oblong Box", it explores and combines several themes typical to the work of Edgar Allan Poe, such as ...

  2. The Oblong Box: Directed by Gordon Hessler. With Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Uta Levka. Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house.

  3. The Oblong Box" (not a story of crime as Poe told it) is based in part on the murder of the printer Samuel Adams by John C. Colt— which succeeded the death of Mary Rogers as the leading sensational topic for the American press. ^ Vierra, Clifford (1959). "Poe's 'Oblong Box': Factual Origins".

  4. by Edgar Allan Poe(published 1844) Some years ago, I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C, to the city of New York, in the fine packet-ship "Independence," Captain Hardy. We were to sail on the fifteenth of the month (June), weather permitting; and on the fourteenth, I went on board to arrange some matters in my stateroom.

  5. Jun 21, 2021 · The film takes place in England in 1865. Having been grotesquely disfigured in an African voodoo ceremony for a transgression against the native populace, Si...

  6. Directed by Gordon Hessler, from a screenplay by Lawrence Huntingtonand Christopher Wicking, The Oblong Box starred Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alister W...

  7. Here's the trailer for AIP's colonialist horror The Oblong Box, starring Vincent Price and Christopher Lee. The film went out in US cinemas on 11 June 1969, ...