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The
Comedy of Terrors
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a three-sheet poster |
 Italian poster |
 one sheet poster |
 insert |
 half sheet poster |
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 lobby card |
 lobby card |
 lobby card |
 lobby card |
 Italian Photobusta |
 Italian Photobusta |
 German lobby card |
 German lobby card |
 trade ad |
 trade ad |
 Seated: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price Standing: Basil Rathbone |
 Seated: Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price Standing: Basil Rathbone |
 Price, Karloff, and Rathbone singing; Lorre at the piano |
 Four masters at portraying evil characters in the movies get together on the set of Comedy of Terrors — to show how they defy superstitions of Friday the 13th. Left to right: Basil Rathbone spilling salt — bad luck omen because salt once was rare and vital to life; Vincent Price under a ladder — representing "meet the devil" superstition dating from the days of the crucifixion; Peter Lorre stroking a black cat — bad luck connected with witches and the devil; Boris Karloff using a hammer to smash a mirror — supposed to invoke seven years of bad luck. AP Wirephoto 1963 |
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 Basil Rathbone, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff |
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 close-up of Rathbone, from the poster |
 drawing that appears in the opening credits |
 caricatures of the Comedy of Terrors cast |
 Danish caricature |
 Peter Lorre sits on Rathbone's lap. |
 a candid photo of the four stars on the set |
 James H. Nicholson, Jacques Tourneur, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Joyce Jameson, Basil Rathbone, and Boris Karloff. Photo published in Boxoffice, September 16, 1953. |
 color version of photo above |
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