"The year: 2020. The Moon has been explored and colonized and the next space goal is about to be reached - the first landing by on the planet Venus. Scientists profoundly hope that life, similar to that on Earth, may be found on this planet where so many physical conditions are like our own. Three rocket ships of an international expedition - the Sirius, Vega and Capella, after having successfully traveled 200 million miles are in the final stages of their journey..."

"The Macabre Masterpiece of Terror!"

"Wits and wizardry run a-fowl!"

"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!"

"Aaron Saxon - Gort"

"THE TERROR BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT!"

"William Baskin - Grimes"

"Peter Lorre - Dr. Adolphus Bedlo"

"Boris Karloff - Dr. Scarabus"

"Hazel Court - Lenore Craven"

"Vincent Price - Dr. Erasmus Craven"

"Wally Campo - First Mate Turner"

"Ken Terrell - Crewman Shanks"

"Olive Sturgess - Estelle Craven"

"[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.""

"Mary Webster - Dorothy Prudent"

"David Frankham - Philip Evans"

"Richard Harrison - Alistair The Helmsman"

"Henry Hull - Prudent"

"Jack Nicholson - Rexford Bedlo"

"Vincent Price - Robur"

"Charles Bronson - John Strock"

"Vito Scotti - Topage"

"He buried her alive... to save his soul!"

"Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher"

"Pray, speak quietly, every sound you make is such exquisite agony to me."

"I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin... we had put her living in the tomb!"

"Harry Ellerbe - Bristol"

"The House of Usher is no more - and the place whereon it stood is as if - it had never been."

"This is the father of all ironies!"

"Edgar Allan Poe's overwhelming tale of EVIL & TORMENT"

"Did you know that I could hear the scratching of her fingernails on the casket lid?"

"Vincent Price - Roderick Usher"

"I admire you, Mr. Strock. You do what you feel you must do without caring whether you alienate anyone or whether they understand you or not. That is my way. That is the only way for a man of dedication. I know that you would like to stop me, sir. For that reason, my impulse is to have you destroyed. My desire on the other hand is to have you join me."

"Mark Damon - Philip Winthrop"

"See to the crypt, will you?"

"Myrna Fahey - Madeline Usher"

"Connie Wallace - Maid"

"Mr. Winthrop, three-quarters of my family have fallen into madness, and in their madness have acquired a, a superhuman strength... so that it took the power of many to subdue them."

"I suggest you leave, Mr. Winthrop. No? Then perish with us."

"Buddy Mason - Mr. Phipps"

"Douglas Williams - the Doctor"

"Linda Rogers - Phipps' Maid"

"Alan DeWitt - Riggs"

"Joyce Jameson - Amaryllis Trumbull"

"Joe E. Brown - the Cemetery Keeper"

"Luree Holmes - Black's Servant"