The Comedy of Terrors

Overview

An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Top cast

Vincent Price

Waldo Trumbull

Peter Lorre

Felix Gillie

Boris Karloff

Amos Hinchley

Joyce Jameson

Amaryllis Trumbull

Joe E. Brown

Cemetery Keeper

Beverly Powers

Mrs. Phipps

Basil Rathbone

John F. Black

A

Alan DeWitt

Riggs

B

Buddy Mason

Mr. Phipps

D

Douglas Williams

Doctor

L

Linda Rogers

Phipps' Maid

Luree Holmes

Black's Servant

Paul Barselou

Riggs (uncredited)

L

Lovyss Bradley

Mourner (uncredited)

Harvey Parry

Man Knocked Down on Street (uncredited)

C

Charles Soldani

Mourner (uncredited)

F

Fred Walton

Mourner (uncredited)

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