Sunday, March 17, 2024

Sven- The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

From Wiki- The film is set in a New England town named after the region of Gilead. The corrupt owner of a funeral parlor murders clients to increase his business and tries to bury his landlord alive. During the late 19th century, unscrupulous drunkard Waldo Trumbull runs a funeral parlor that he acquired from his former business partner Amos Hinchley. Trumbull is unhappily married to Hinchley's daughter Amaryllis.  (me now) This goes on for a while, with the Trumbull and fugitive picklock Felix Gillie ineptly trying to kill their landlord.  Gillie is in love with Amaryllis as well.

The movie is funny in spots, but I don't understand the love it gets.  The problem is nearly all of the characters are thoroughly unlikable, despite being funny.  The viewer wants most of them to die.  The actors all did a great job, though.  This was Peter Lorre's last movie that he filmed.  He is very funny, as usual.  I liked Rhubarb the cat as Cleopatra the most.

Next- Dan Curtis' Dracula.  I have never seen that.
 

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