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{{Short description|1963 film by Roger Corman}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Haunted Palace
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| producer = Roger Corman
| screenplay = [[Charles Beaumont]]
| based_on = {{plainlist|
*{{based on|"[[The Haunted Palace (poem)|The Haunted Palace]]"|[[Edgar *{{based on|''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]]''|[[H. P. Lovecraft]]}} }}
| starring = {{plainlist|
*[[Vincent Price]]
*[[Debra Paget]]
*[[Lon Chaney Jr.]]}}
| music = [[Ronald Stein]]
| cinematography = [[Floyd Crosby]]
| editing = [[Ronald Sinclair]]
| color_process = Pathécolor
| studio = Alta Vista Productions
| distributor = [[American International Pictures]]
| released =
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United States
| language = [[English language|English]]
| budget =
| gross = $1,200,000 (US/ Canada)<ref>"Top Rental Features of 1963", ''Variety'', 8 January 1964 p 71. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety-1963-10/page/n104/mode/1up?q=%22beach+party%22|date=9 October 1963|page=17|title=Poe & Bikinis}}</ref>
<br>184,700 admissions (France)<ref>[http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com.au&sl=fr&u=http://www.boxofficestory.com/box-office-roger-corman-c25219334&usg=ALkJrhhPRR4k6t8SO7XOpFPK6Cs9OEHuHQ Box office information for Roger Corman films in France] at Box Office Story</ref> }}
'''''The Haunted Palace''''' is a 1963 [[horror film]] released by [[American International Pictures]], starring [[Vincent Price]], [[Lon Chaney Jr.]] and [[Debra Paget]] (in her final film), in a story about a village held in the grip of a dead [[Necromancy|necromancer]].
Although marketed as "Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Haunted Palace''", the film actually derives its plot from ''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]]'', a novella by [[H. P. Lovecraft]].<ref>{{cite
==Plot==
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==Production notes==
Producer and director [[Roger Corman]], best known for his Poe horror film series for [[American International Pictures]], originally envisioned the project when making ''The Premature Burial'' for Pathe. He intended to cast the stars of that film, Ray Milland and Hazel Court, along with [[Boris Karloff]]. Pathe sold its interest in ''The Premature Burial'' to AIP and the Lovecraft story would be made by Corman for that studio. Milland, Court and Karloff were replaced by Vincent Price, Debra Paget and Lon Chaney.<ref>{{cite book| page=113|url= https://archive.org/details/rogercormanbesto0000mcge/page/112/mode/1up?|title= Roger Corman, the best of the cheap acts|last=McGee|first= Mark Thomas|year=1988}}</ref>
After the 18th-century portion of the story, [[Vincent Price]] recites lines 41 through 44 of the final stanza of the eponymous poem: "And travelers now within that valley though the red-litten windows see vast forms that move fantastically to a discordant melody," and the film ends with lines 45 through 48: "...While, like a ghastly rapid river, through the pale door, a hideous throng rush out forever and laugh – But smile no more."▼
The film paired Price with [[Debra Paget]] and [[Lon Chaney Jr.]]; Paget retired from acting following completion of the film, and Chaney, famous for playing ''[[The Wolf Man (1941 film)|The Wolf Man]]'', made only this one appearance in a Corman film. He had co-starred with Price in ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]'' fifteen years earlier, but they didn't share any scenes; Price's participation was a voiceover role (as The Invisible Man) and he never appeared on-screen. Chaney's role in ''The Haunted Palace'' was originally meant to be played by [[Boris Karloff]], but Karloff had contracted an illness while making ''[[Black Sabbath (film)|Black Sabbath]]'' in Italy.<ref name="AIP">Mark McGee, ''Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures'', McFarland, 1996 p206</ref>
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Clips from ''The Haunted Palace'' are among the stock footage from various Corman features used for the Vincent Price film ''[[Madhouse (1974 film)|Madhouse]]'' (1974), in which Price plays a horror film actor. The clips are presented as the early work of Price's character.
This was Corman's first film to use the then new [[zoom lens]], which created issues as more light
▲After the 18th-century portion of the story, [[Vincent Price]] recites lines 41 through 44 of the final stanza of the eponymous poem: "And travelers now within that valley though the red-litten windows see vast forms that move fantastically to a discordant melody," and the film ends with lines 45 through 48: "...While, like a ghastly rapid river, through the pale door, a hideous throng rush out forever and laugh – But smile no more."
==Critical reaction==
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==See also==
*[[The Resurrected]] (1991)
==References==
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{{Wikiquote}}
* {{IMDb title|0057128|The Haunted Palace}}
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* {{Rotten Tomatoes|haunted_palace|The Haunted Palace}}
*[http://trailersfromhell.com/the-haunted-palace/ Joe Dante on ''The Haunted Palace''] at [[Trailers from Hell]]
{{Roger Corman}}
{{Charles Beaumont}}
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[[Category:Films scored by Ronald Stein]]
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[[Category:1960s American films]]
[[Category:Films about spirit possession]]
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