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Synopsis: Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
Director(s): Roger Corman
Production: American International Picture
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
71%
APPROVED
Year:
1962
89 min
164 Views


If you don't give me the money,

l have to find it myself.

Oh.

Oh, I know where it is.

I know.

If I ever catch you again, you mangy,

insufferable brute, I'I l... I'II...

I'll tear your head off!

By the root!

Oh, you won't bite me.

Give me my money!

There is none, Montresor.

You haven't worked in 1 7 years.

Will you?

Has it been that long?

Oh, stop your silly tactics.

What about your sewing money?

- We need that for food.

- Food!

That's exactly what l want it for.

I drink my food!

Give me the money.

Thank you for looking into your heart.

We will starve now. That's all we have.

You've got a lot of money hidden

all around the whole house. I know that.

He was so romantic... once.

I said get out! And stay out!

You pig, you. You... you dog!

How dare you throw me out!

If only l had a pistol.

If I had a pistol, I'd...

I'd probably sell it

and buy myself more wine.

Oh, but really...

After all I've done for her,

she should have given me more money.

There's just no gratitude.

Sir, would you help a veteran

of the Revolutionary War?

Out of my way!

Pardon me, ladies, but could you

spare a coin for a moral cripple?

Disgraceful!

Do you have some money

for a dying man?

Go sleep it off.

No gratitude.

Hey.

I want money!

- Scum!

- You dirty money-grubber.

Just no gratitude.

No kindness.

Top of the morning, everybody!

My, what a nice bunch of gentlemen!

Look. Look.

Beautiful.

One moment, please.

Gentlemen. Quiet, everybody.

As we promised before,

a treat for everyone.

A demonstration in expert wine tasting

by none other than...

Mr. Fortunato Luchresi himself.

Bravo! Bravo!

As you know, gentlemen,

Mr. Luchresi is without doubt the foremost

wine taster in the civilised world today.

Huh?

That's nonsense!

I can tell the taste of any wine

just as well as he can.

Liar!

If we may proceed...

I said, l can tell the taste of any wine...

just as well as anybody!

Afraid to try me, huh?

You coward!

You poseur.

l say call the police!

One moment!

Please.

Sir, unless you are intent

on mere rabble-rousing,

you have just made a most grave

and serious accusation.

An accusation which I am prepared

to follow up with action.

That is, if you care to take the risk.

We will take the risk.

- Oh?

- Oh, yes, yes.

My name is Fortunato Luchresi,

at your service.

Montresor Herringbone!

What are we waiting for?

Bring on the wine.

Bring on the wine.

Pinot Noir, Burgundy,

Clos de Vougeot.

Vintage... 1 838.

- Quite passable.

- Correct!

Give me more. Don't be so stingy.

Burgundy. Volnay, 1 832. And...

it's from the better slopes of the vineyard.

It's... it's very good.

Correct.

I don't believe it.

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Richard Matheson

Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror vampire novel that has been adapted for the screen four times, as well as the movie Somewhere In Time for which Matheson wrote the screenplay, based on his novel Bid Time Return. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel". He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by a young Steven Spielberg, for the television film of the same name that year. Seven more of his novels or short stories have been adapted as major motion pictures — The Shrinking Man, Hell House, What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes, Steel (filmed as Real Steel), and Button, Button. Lesser movies based on his work include two from his early noir novels — Cold Sweat, based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, and Les seins de glace (Icy Breasts), based on his novel Someone is Bleeding. more…

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