The Pit and the Pendulum
Betrayal cuts both ways!
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Timing:
1:21 (81 min)
6.9/10
310
310
6.882/10
1510
1510
7/10
18000
18000
Country
Genre
Horror, Mystery
Budget
$200 000
Revenue
$2 000 000
Director
Actors
Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone, Patrick Westwood, Lynette Bernay, Mary Menzies, Charles Victor, Larry Turner
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Roger Corman, Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson
Operator
Floyd Crosby
Composer
Les Baxter
Artist
Audition
Editing
Anthony Carras
All team (29)
All team (29)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- During editing, director Roger Corman cut every other frame of the blade with a razor to make it appear to move much faster.
- The film initially did not have a prologue. It was added after the film was sold for television. At that time, only Luana Anders (1938-1996) was available from the entire cast, so another scene was filmed with her and added to the beginning of the film. Frankly, the scene doesn't really fit with the film itself.
- Actor John Kerr (1931-2013) was frankly uneasy at the thought of being tied to a table with a pendulum descending from above. To demonstrate to him that it was completely safe, Roger Corman himself stood in for the actor during the preparation for this scene.
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