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The Oblong Box (film), the Glossary

The Oblong Box is a 1969 British gothic horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Alister Williamson.^[1]

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1960s historical horror films
1969 horror films
Films about grave-robbing
Films based on works by Edgar Allan Poe
Films directed by Gordon Hessler
Films scored by Harry Robertson
Films set in 1865

Alister Williamson

Alister Williamson (17 June 1918 – 19 May 1999) was an Australian-born character actor, who appeared in many British films and television series of the 1960s and 1970s.

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American International Pictures

American International Pictures LLC (AIP or American International Productions) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios.

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Art director

Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.

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Associated British Picture Corporation

Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC), originally British International Pictures (BIP), was a British film production, distribution and exhibition company active from 1927 until 1970 when it was absorbed into EMI.

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Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter

Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter is a 1974 British swashbuckling action horror film, written and directed by Brian Clemens, produced by Clemens and Albert Fennell for Hammer Film Productions, and starring Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane Briant, and Caroline Munro. The Oblong Box (film) and Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter are British historical horror films.

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Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer.

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Christopher Wicking

Christopher Wicking (10 January 1943 – 13 October 2008), also known as Chris Wicking, was a British screenwriter, often in the horror and fantasy genres, notably for the British arm of American International Pictures and with Hammer Film Productions, for whom he was the last 'resident script editor'.

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Colin Jeavons

Colin Abel Jeavons (born 20 October 1929) is a British retired television actor and TV presenter.

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Cry of the Banshee

Cry of the Banshee is a 1970 British horror film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Vincent Price. The Oblong Box (film) and Cry of the Banshee are American International Pictures films, British historical horror films and films directed by Gordon Hessler.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

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George Provis

George Provis (1901–1989) was a British art director who worked on over a hundred films during a lengthy career.

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Godfrey James

Godfrey James (16 April 1931 – 29 October 2019) was an English actor.

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Gordon Hessler

Gordon Hessler (12 December 1925 – 19 January 2014) was a German-born British film and television director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Gothic film

A Gothic film is a film that is based on Gothic fiction or contains Gothic elements.

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Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is a British film production company based in London.

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Harry Baird (actor)

Harry Baird (12 May 193113 February 2005) was a Guyanese-born British actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, appearing in more than 36 films throughout his career.

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Harry Robertson (musician)

Henry MacLeod Robertson (19 November 1932 – 17 January 1996), often credited as Harry Robinson, was a Scottish musician, bandleader, music director and composer.

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Hilary Dwyer

Hilary Dwyer (6 May 1945 – 30 March 2020), also known as Hilary Heath, was an English actress, businessperson, and film producer.

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Ivor Dean

Ivor Donald Dean (21 December 1917 – 10 August 1974) was a British stage, film and television actor.

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John Barrie (actor)

John Barrie (6 May 191724 March 1980) was an English actor who appeared in a number of television shows and films.

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John Coquillon

John Coquillon (1930–1987) was a Dutch cinematographer.

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John Wentworth (actor)

John Wentworth (1908–1989) was a British television actor.

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Lawrence Huntington

Lawrence Huntington (9 March 1900 – 1968) was a British film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Lumiere Pictures and Television

Canal+ Image International (formerly known as EMI Films, Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Lumiere Pictures and Television, and UGC DA) was a British-French film, television, animation studio and distributor.

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Martin Wyldeck

Martin Wyldeck (11 January 1914 – 29 April 1988) was an English actor who played a wide range of parts over many years on stage, screen and TV.

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Maxwell Shaw

Maxwell Shaw (21 February 1929 - 21 August 1985 in London, England) was an actor, known for The Barber of Stamford Hill (1962), Once More, with Feeling! (1960) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950).

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Michael Balfour (actor)

Michael Creighton Balfour (11 February 1918 – 24 October 1997) was an English actor, working mainly in British films and TV, following his TV debut in the BBC's The Marvellous History of St Bernard, in 1938.

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Michael Reeves (director)

Michael Reeves (17 October 1943 – 11 February 1969) was an English film director and screenwriter.

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Peter Arne

Peter Arne (born Peter Randolph Michael Albrecht; 29 September 19181 August 1983) was a British character actor.

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, and cars.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rupert Davies

Rupert Lisburn Gwynne Davies FRSA (22 May 191622 November 1976) was a British actor best remembered for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on Georges Simenon's novels.

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Sally Geeson

Sarah Louise Clouston Geeson (born 23 June 1950), known professionally as Sally Geeson, is an English actress with a career mostly on television in the 1970s.

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Scream and Scream Again

Scream and Scream Again is a 1970 British science-fiction film directed by Gordon Hessler for Amicus Productions, and starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alfred Marks, Michael Gothard, and Peter Cushing. The Oblong Box (film) and Scream and Scream Again are films directed by Gordon Hessler.

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Shepperton Studios

Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England, with a history dating back to 1931. The Oblong Box (film) and Shepperton Studios are films shot at Shepperton Studios.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Oblong Box (short story)

"The Oblong Box" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844, about a sea voyage and a mysterious box.

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The Overlook Press

The Overlook Press is an American publishing house based in New York, New York which considers itself "a home for distinguished books that had been 'overlooked' by larger houses".

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The Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes is an 1899 dystopian science fiction novel by English writer H. G. Wells, about a man who sleeps for 203 years, waking up in a completely transformed late 21st to early 22nd century London in which he has become the richest man in the world.

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Uta Levka

Uta Levka (born 26 May 1942) is a former German film and television actress active during the 1960s and early 1970s.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor known for his work in the horror film genre, mostly portraying villains.

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Witchfinder General (film)

Witchfinder General (titled onscreen as Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General) is a 1968 British period folk horror film directed by Michael Reeves and starring Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer, Robert Russell and Rupert Davies. The Oblong Box (film) and Witchfinder General (film) are 1960s British films, 1960s historical horror films, American International Pictures films and British historical horror films.

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Zeph Gladstone

Zephyrine Frances "Zeph" Gladstone (20 September 1937 - 28 October 2002) was an English television actress, from Norwood in south London.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oblong_Box_(film)

The Oblong Box (film), the Glossary

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See also

1960s historical horror films

1969 horror films

Films about grave-robbing

Films based on works by Edgar Allan Poe

Films directed by Gordon Hessler

Films scored by Harry Robertson

Films set in 1865

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