House of Usher

Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from extending any further. When her fiancé, Philip Winthrop, arrives at the crumbling family estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless lengths to keep them apart.

Cast

Vincent Price

as Roderick Usher

Mark Damon

as Philip Winthrop

Myrna Fahey

as Madeline Usher

Harry Ellerbe

as Bristol

David Andar

as Ghost (uncredited)

Bill Borzage

as Ghost (uncredited)

Mario Bellini

as Ghost (uncredited)

Eleanor LeFaber

as Ghost (uncredited)

Nadajan

as Ghost (uncredited)

Ruth Oklander

as Ghost (uncredited)

Reviews

John Chard

Fissures of concrete and of the mind... Phillip Winthrop has been searching for his missing fiancée, Madeline Usher. Tracking her down to the Usher family castle, he finds that Madeline is held strangely under the spell of her brother Roderick. The house itself also seems to be laden heavy with a...

Wuchak

_**“It’s a mad house, a mad house!”**_ In the late 1830s, a man from Boston (Mark Damon) visits the ancestral manor of his fiancé out in the country (Myrna Fahey), but he finds her curiously ill and her older brother nigh insane (Vincent Price). What’s going on? "House of Usher" (1960) was the...

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