Christopher Lee Reads Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” & More
Sir Christopher Lee and Edgar Allan Poe went way back. Or at least they went as far back as 1969, the year of The Oblong Box, a loose and lurid film adaptation of the eponymous story starring Lee and the also Poe-associated Vincent Price. Lee plays the doctor to whom a gang of grave-robbers delivers Price’s character, an Englishman disfigured in a voodoo ceremony who fakes his own death in order to escape the captivity of his brother. Whatever its entertainment value, the picture doesn’t rank especially high in the canon of Poe adaptations. Nor, for that matter, does the original story rank…
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