... films, The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), The Raven (1963), The Masque of the Red Death(1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1965). The success of the Poe cycle allowed Corman to ... to advance the art of film comedy.If there was one comedy team that captured some of the “anything goes” anarchy of the best Marx Brothers films of the early 1930s, it was Olsen and Johnson. The ... entertainment.Nonetheless, their two-reel films (and they made hundreds of them in the 1930s and 1940s) have withstood the test of time.Many of them, in fact, are now considered classic.Unlike the Three Stooges,...