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Vincent Price and Peter Lorre Put the 'Fun' in 'Funerals'- When an Uncooperative Customer Creates a "Comedy of Terrors"- Tonight!

Sing along- “On the first December Saturday, Svengoolie gave to me- three feuding relatives, two messed-up morticians, and a landlord who wouldn’t stay dead!” On second thought, forget the song- as tonight on MeTV, we reprise a horror comedy with an all-star cast of the genre’s legends that mixes dark humor and deadly deeds. It’s another memorable team-up of Vincent Price and Peter Lorre, with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone along for the (hearse wagon) ride- in the “Comedy of Terrors”!

This 1963 America International production begins with mortician Trumbull and his partner Gillie trying hard to keep their funeral parlor afloat- by any means, even reusing a coffin over and ove...

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