Interesting that Price was a leading man in romantic roles as a young man during the 1940s, and only got typecast as a ghoulish type after his role in "House of Wax" in the early '50s. Like Boris Karloff, John Carradine, Lon Chaney, Sr., Peter Lorre, Christopher Lee, and Basil Rathbone, he was a very fine actor.
My favourite "horror films" are: "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with Spencer Tracey, "Frankenstein" with Boris Karloff, "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi, "Nosferatu", "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff, "The Raven" original '30s version, with Boris Karloff, "Island of Lost Souls" with Charles Laughton, Bride of Frankenstein, "The Wolfman" with Lon Chaney, Jr., "Most Dangerous Game", and almost any of the Boris Karloff '30s and early '40s films.
I like films from the '20s, '30s and '40s most. Just like I don't like most music after 1967, I don't like many US films after the mid 1950s, and don't like most British films after the early 1960s.
I just have very old-fashioned taste. I grew up seeing movies from the 20s, '30s and '40s on TV, as that was a big proportion of what was on TV in the early '50s, and I grew up listening to '30s, '40s and early '50s music, and reading '40s and beginning of the '50s comic books, and classic novels I read as a child. I guess that the late '40s and early '50s were "good times" for me, and although I've had a "good time" in my life, ever since, I've never gotten over the wonder and draw of those things to which I was exposed, early in my life. I can appreciate new artistic efforts for their excellent quality of artistic achievement, but, somehow, they can never make as important impression on me as those artistic creations I encountered as a child.
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