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The Comedy of Terrors (1964) was a Comedy - Horror Film directed by Jacques Tourneur .

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Amaryllis Trumbull: If my father chose to spend his hard-earned money in the collection of curious objects...
Waldo Trumbull: [interrupting] He did more than collect curious objects, madam, he also fathered one!


Felix Gillie: [after Amaryllis' singing has caused glasses to break, flowers to wither, and corks to pop out of bottles] Just like a nightingale


John F. Black, Esq.: [as he's dying again] "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more..."
Waldo Trumbull: I'll believe that when I see it.


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Boris Karloff was originally hired to play John F. Black but it soon became clear that his severe arthritis would not permit him to undertake such a strenuous role. Karloff was switched to the part of Mr. Hinchley, and Basil Rathbone was brought in to play Black.
Completed September 1963.
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