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    Madhouse (1974)

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    Vincent Price plays Robert Toombes – a veteran horror actor famous for his long-running film role as Dr Death – a sinister horror villain who wears a skull-like mask.

    Toombes is about to marry Ellen Mason (Julie Crosthwait) but is irritated at the engagement party by a crass producer named Oliver Quayle (Robert Quarry) who reminds Toombes that Ellen used to make ‘adult’ films for him.

    Ellen is upset by the reaction of Toombes to this most unwelcome reminder of her past and tearfully goes to her room – but a man dressed as Dr Death appears. When Toombes goes up to apologise to Ellen he finds she has been murdered. Decapitated no less.

    Toombes spent some time in a mental institution and is not even sure himself if he killed Ellen or not. Years later, Toombes is asked to go to England where his old friend Herbert Flay (Peter Cushing) has done a deal to make a Dr Death television series with Oliver Quayle producing. As soon as Toombes arrives, murders start occurring.

    Adrienne Corri co-stars as Faye Carstairs, one of Toombes’ former leads and now seemingly the captive of Flay. Faye has gone mad after suffering injuries in a car crash and now lives in the cellar with a menagerie of spiders.

    Michael Parkinson has a cameo when Toombes appears on a chatshow.

    Paul Toombes
    Vincent Price
    Herbert Flay
    Peter Cushing
    Oliver Quayle
    Robert Quarry
    Faye Carstairs Flay
    Adrienne Corri
    Julia Wilson
    Natasha Pyne
    TV Interviewer
    Michael Parkinson
    Elizabeth Peters
    Linda Hayden
    Gerry Blount
    Barry Dennen
    Alfred Peters
    Ellis Dale
    Louise Peters
    Catherine Willmer
    Inspector Harper
    John Garrie
    Bradshaw
    Ian Thompson
    Carol Clayton
    Jenny Lee Wright
    Ellen Mason
    Julie Crosthwaite
    Psychiatrist
    Peter Halliday

    Director
    Jim Clark

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