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The King is dead! This is one of those movies that I like to watch but only when the mood strikes me. It runs like a play shot on film sometimes and maybe that has to do with the fact that the story is very Shakespearian in nature. Vincent Price plays Richard who will do anything to become King of England after King Edward V dies. Richard soons starts killing off anyone that stands in his way, but... read more

"No age is without its ruthless men who in their search for power, leave dark stains upon the pages of history."

Although best remembered today, if at all, for Son of Frankenstein, director Rowland V. Lee was responsible for a nice line in swashbucklers in the 30s and showed he could handle darker bigger budget fare with aplomb with 1939's Tower of London, a determinedly non-Shakesp... read more

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.