Anthology series of Poe stories, which benefits from the virtues of this series - Vincent Price, gorgeous photography and sets, Richard Matheson's script.
"Morella" is competent but very familiar - grieving widower, "she's not really dead", ingenue, wife back from the dead, house burns down. Price acts his butt off but needed stronger support from Maggie Pearce or Leona Gage.
"The Black Cat" is much better. Peter Lorre is on hand as a drunk whose wife hooks up with Vincent Price. It's over the top but Lorre vs Price is a great battle of hams and it's a grim story - I mean, Lorre drugs the couple and bricks them up alive... and they die. That's full on.
"The Case of M Valdemar" is classy, helped with the ageing star power of Basil Rathbone to take on Price and a plot that doesn't whimp out.
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