Vincent Price's scream


Talk about movie trivia, but this film was released by Warner Brothers in 1953. A very definitely male scream is heard when Vincent Price falls into the vat of boiling wax at the end, but it seems dubbed in.

Two years later, when the juvenile delinquency classic Rebel Without a Cause was being filmed at Warner Brothers, actor Corey Allen was unable to scream to suit director Nicholas Ray, in the sequence where gang leader Buzz plunges over a cliff, trapped in his speeding car. Allen said he felt that the sheer terror his character was experiencing made him unable to scream, so he opened his mouth, but no sound emerged. Ray gave up after a few more takes, but when Allen saw the preview in a theatre, he was surprised to hear a scream coming from his character on screen. Ray had dubbed in a scream from the studio sound library without telling Allen about it.

I had just been rereading a wonderful book about the making of Rebel Without a Cause, and had run across this bit of information, while happening to put House of Wax on the video. I could swear that the same scream is used for Price in House of Wax and Allen in Rebel Without a Cause.

Any ideas?

And when he crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him

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I have nothing to go on but what my ears tell me, but I think you're absolutely right. There's no doubt in my mind that it's the same sound library yell in both films. I noticed it even as an 8- or 9-year old, when both were staples of the "Million Dollar Movie" (the same film every night of the week and twice on Saturday and Sunday, all week long) on a local L.A. station.

Every time I see either film, I can't help but think of the other when I hear that scream.


Poe! You are...avenged!

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It's quite likely to be the same scream, and odds are that it was a Wilhelm.
I think it was first used in either '51 or '52, so it certainly should have been available for this in 1953.

http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/wilhelm/

My train of thought keeps getting derailed.

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They used the same scream in Plan 9 from Outer Space as well
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8659963261286113324&hl=en

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