The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum
6.8

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Directed by: Roger Corman

Overview

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

The Pit and the Pendulum

Reviews (3)

  • John Chard (Rated: 8)

    Price, Corman and Matheson, Gothic splendour.

    Upon hearing of his sister Elizabeth's death, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to find out just exactly how she met her end. Arriving at the Medina castle, he finds the Medina family deeply suspicious characters and the castle itself a foreboding plac...

  • Wiccaburr (Rated: 8)

    The colorful flashbacks, the beautiful settings, the delicious revenge, and you got Vincent Price as well. Directed by Roger Corman and Matheson doing the screenplay. And of course, let's not forget this is a Poe story.

    This is so good especially as the ending comes. Reminds me of House on Ha...

  • Wuchak (Rated: 8)

    Haunted chateau, cobwebs, rats, grisly cadavers, adultery, murder and a torture chamber

    In 1546, a man from London (John Kerr) visits an ominous castle on the coast of Spain to find out the mysterious events surrounding his sister’s sudden death (Barbara Steele). Vincent Price plays the lor...

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Antony Carbone

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Calabria, Italy
Acting
41 Films
86 yearsAge
18Movies
23TV Shows

Biography

Antony Carbone (born 1927 in Calabria, Italy) is an American film and television actor.

His family moved to Syracuse, New York when he was a young boy, then relocated to Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Los Angeles State College, he moved to New York City to study drama with Harold Clurman and Eva Le Galliene. He started his professional acting career in small parts in various Broadway productions before moving into film and television. Carbone is probably best known for his supporting roles in several low budget Roger Corman horror films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, including A Bucket of Blood (1959), Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) and The Pit and the Pendulum (1961). Since the mid-1980s he has been a stage director in Los Angeles. He was sometimes credited as Anthony Carbone and Tony Carbone.

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