Tower Of London 1939 Screenplay by Robert N Lee, produced and directed by Rowland V Lee. This is the first of four films that make up the Universal Horror Collection Volume 3. Three of films in this set appeared in an earlier DVD set called Universal Horror Classic Movie Archive. It had 5 films on 2 discs: The Black Cat, Man Made Monster, Horror Island, Night Monster and Captive Wild Woman. The Tower Of London Blu-ray has a commentary by Steve Haberman, he spends a lot of time talking about Basil Rathbone and not the movie. There's a still gallery. I like that this set has four commentaries but there are little else listed on the box other than still galleries. One of the films has a trailer.
An entertaining biopic about the horrible life of King Richard III. It's not very accurate and skips through time compressing events. Basil Rathbone plays Richard, Duke of Gloucester and he's a right bastard. He'll kill anyone who gets in his way while he's heading for the throne, including those little princes in the tower. Boris Karloff plays the head torturer in the King's dungeon. Vincent Price plays the Duke of Clarence. He'll get in Richard's way and die for it.
It's got nice production values and there's some good battle scenes. It's the longest movie in the set, 92 mins and they spent some money on the movie. I hadn't seen it for a number of years and had forgotten most of what went on. I enjoyed it all over again. I got a good feeling in my heart when Richard got his comeuppance. Who doesn't like that?
In the real battle of Bosworth Field Richard was trashed pretty well, blows to his helmet so hard they smashed his skull. One of the many useless Kings of England.
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