The Raven (1963 film)

"[quoting from Poe's poem] Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door. Only this and nothing more.""

"Vincent Price - Dr. Erasmus Craven"

"Peter Lorre - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo"

"Boris Karloff - Dr. Scarabus"

"Hazel Court - Lenore Craven"

"Olive Sturgess - Estelle Craven"

"Jack Nicholson - Rexford Bedlo"

"Connie Wallace - Maid"

"William Baskin - Grimes"

"Aaron Saxon - Gort"

"There was no battle of egos, just a little discussion about technique. Peter loved to improvise, but Boris did not. Boris pointed out he was a classically trained actor who learned his lines from the script and came prepared to deliver them as written. "It puts me off," he told me of Peter's improvisations."

"I told Peter I loved what he did, but that we needed to stay a bit closer to the script. Vincent was cool with it either way."

"The supreme adventure in terror!"

"THE TERROR BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT!"

"The Macabre Masterpiece of Terror!"

"Wits and wizardry run a-fowl!"