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Tower of London

Basil Rathbone (Actor), Boris Karloff (Actor), Rowland V. Lee (Director) Rated: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD

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Actors: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price
Directors: Rowland V. Lee
Format: NTSC
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal
DVD Release Date: October 3, 2013
Run Time: 93 minutes
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
ASIN: B00FERSYIY
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,887 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

No Cariacatures Here

By Linda McDonnell on July 15, 2002

Format: VHS Tape

Laurence Olivier's Richard III is fun to watch, but his Duke of Glouchester is warped inside and out: ugly and humpbacked, strutting about. Basil Rathbone's Richard is very different from that.
True, he has a humpback too--in fact, his armor has a bump in it to allow for the hump--but he carries himself gracefully, as Rathbone always does. He's just as evil, though. Whereas Olivier has a number of asides to the audience through which we learn of his machination's purposes, Rathbone's got a little closet with the succession to the throne literally spelled out in dolls. Doll #1 is brother Edward played by Ian Hunter, who enjoys every trick Richard plays on everyone else, and condones all the murdering going on. It's clear he hasn't the imagination to realize that ultimately Richard will target dolls #4 and 5, Edward's own two sons, the famous Little Princes who vanished in the Tower of London. Doll #2 is the semi-senile usurped king Henry VI, played by Miles Mander, veteran of many a Shirley Temple and Sherlock Holmes movie. He gets dispatched at prayer by Richard's loyal executioner friend Mort, lovingly brought to us by clubfooted Boris Karloff. He pledges himself to Richard saying, "You're more than a prince, more than a king...You're a god to me!" Wow, how's that for hero worship? Doll #3 is the son of that usurped king, who's biggest transgression is having married the woman Richard loved. So much for him, eventually. My personal favorite is Doll #6, Richard's other brother Clarence, Vincent Price in a very early role. These two have never gotten along, so we shouldn't be surprised when a drinking bout between the brothers takes a particularly nasty turn for poor Clarence.Read more ›

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful

Basil Rathbone is the man!

By Jeff Simpson on August 26, 2000

Format: VHS Tape

you cannot compare this with any of the other universal horror movies that came around the same time. This is not a horror movie but a historical drama depicting the unscrupulous rise to power of Richard the III, played in the most evil and backstabbing way by Basil Rathbone( most excellent actor of Sherlock Holmes fame and Son of Frankenstein). The plot and script are so much more intricate and intelligent than the other universal horrors, but no wonder it's not a horror movie. Some say this is a bland role for Karloff, but he plays an executioner that is the subserviant friend of Richard the III, of course he is going to come across as a brute, but what else would you expect of an executioner from the middle ages. Vincent Price(in an early role in his career) is excellent as a snivelling coward, that is in the way of Richards rise to power. Overall an excellent movie, one of Universal's best from the time period of the classic monsters.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

Shakespeare's "Richard III" stripped down to a Horror show

By Lawrance Bernabo HALL OF FAMEVINE VOICE on July 14, 2001

Format: VHS Tape

"The Tower of a London" is an interesting horror film because it involves the same characters as Shakespeare's play "Richard III." Boris Karloff plays Mord, the executioner at the Tower and the ally of Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Basil Rathbone) in his quest for the crown. It is Mord who kills the aging King Henry VI and the young princes. Like "Richard III," the film ends with the Battle of Bosworth, but the chief difference between the two works are the Grand Guignol murders by Mord, such as when Richard and his executioner drown the Duke of Clarence (Vincent Price) in a vast butt of malmsey. Karloff might get to do more killing in this 1939 film directed by Rowland V. Lee, but this is very much Basil Rathbone's film and his Richard does not suffer much in comparison to Olivier's celebrated performance on film. Actually, they make a fascinating double-bill, but be sure to save "The Tower of London" for the second feature.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Monstrous fun, with the Tudor version of Richard III slaying his nephews as well as a troublesome brother

By C. O. DeRiemer TOP 1000 REVIEWER on June 26, 2007

Format: VHS Tape

When that martyr to morality, that paragon of piety Sir Thomas More had his head chopped off by the order of his master, Henry VIII, it's unlikely in those last moments that he asked forgiveness for the sliming of Richard III's reputation, which he accomplished while ambitiously working to curry favor with the Tudors. Richard was the last of the Yorkist line, a capable and honest king, as ruthless in politics as everyone else was at that time, and most likely, if he had not taken action, to lose his own head to the machinations of the Woodvilles, the family of Queen Elizabeth, widow of Edward IV, Richard's brother, and mother to the two young princes who were the immediate heirs to the throne when Edward died. We know that Richard took control of the princes, that they were lodged with great comfort in the Tower, that he had them proclaimed illegitimate based on a prior morganatic marriage Edward had undertaken, and that there is no record of them having been seen during the last months of Richard's reign. We also know that Henry Tudor, a minor and ambitious offspring from the royal line, returned to England, raised an army and defeated Richard when the forces of Lord Stanley betrayed Richard and attacked his flank in the middle of the battle at Bosworth Field. Tudor took the crown, Richard's body disappeared after being abused, and the Tudor propaganda machine took over. Thanks primarily to Thomas More and, later, William Shakespeare, Richard was turned into a crook-backed, club-footed, amoral monster who slew innocent children, beheaded stalwart lovers of England, wooed widows over the caskets of their husbands and, to put it gently, was an unreliable friend. When Richard was killed in battle, the Tudors saw to it that Richard's reputation as a fair and capable king died with him.Read more ›

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An Excellent Historical Drama

I really enjoyed this film in spite of any historical inaccuracies. If you watch the film as simply a Hollywood drama instead of "historical truth" then the movie is quite... Read more

Published 2 months ago by Rainey Dawn

The White Tower

I might have scored this interesting movie--beautifully acted by Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and, especially Basil Rathbone--except for one avoidable detail. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Ron Braithwaite

Four Stars

Published 13 months ago by Dana Frustaci Zaccaro

great classic horror movie

I've been a fan of Boris Karloff horror movies for over 50 yrs. This is worth watching again and again.

Published 22 months ago by Mimi

Quite enjoyed it

I quite enjoyed this movie. A fictional recreation of the machinations of Richard III, casting him in the role of an arch villain in the mould of Shakespeare's Richard III. Read more

Published 23 months ago by Gary Selikow

Tower of London

This is yet another version of King Richard's intended rise to the English throne by eliminating all relatives in line ahead of him. Even so, the film is well done. Read more

Published on April 23, 2013 by Robert D. Woods

Basil Rathbone at his most despicable best!

A treat of a horror film, as it shows the terror that can lurk from within even the noblest family of power and wealth.

Published on April 8, 2013 by D. F. Wegener

Karloff is Great in this Otherwise Slow-Mover by Universal!

This slow-moving Universal picture has the evil Richard III, played by Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes) and with the aid of his club-footed executioner (Boris Karloff), he kills... Read more

Published on October 7, 2009 by Critic's Corner

A nice little surprise

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Published on November 20, 2006 by Nicholas A. Ziinojr

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