Tales of the mystery and imagination5/27/2023 However, after the point that the horse enters the show, the episode slows right down and drags out tediously. Vadim offers up a promisingly decadent opening with his then wife Jane Fonda lording over various cruelties and pleasures. The first segment of the film, Roger Vadim’s Metzengerstein, is unfortunately the worst. Among the more interesting copies was this continental production that united the talents of three top Euro directors of the era – Roger Vadim, the French director of And God Created Woman (1956), Blood and Roses (1960) and Barbarella (1968) Louis Malle, then renowned for Les Amants (1958) and Elevator to the Scaffold/Frantic (1958) and Federico Fellini, Italy’s hottest new talent with the likes of La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8½ (1963). With the success of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films in the early 1960s, beginning with The House of Usher (1960), others soon climbed on the Poe bandwagon.
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