be done in very few shots to heighten credibility. We shot it all in one day". Assistant editor Paul Landres stated that "we thought we had an Academy Award picture, we really did. Each scene was remarkable. [...] And then we saw the first cut and, man, that picture died. And the reason it died was that every scene came up to its peak, and there was nothing but peaks in the whole film. There was no pacing, there was no change. Boy, did I learn. I really learned from that one". From retrospective reviews, Hans J. Wollstein of AllMovie stated that "Karloff employs all kinds of instruments of torture, but very little actual torture is shown" and found that "with the likes of Karloff, Basil Rathbone, and a very young Vincent Price taking turns chewing the scenery, it is also vastly entertaining" as well as that "the battle scenes are so much more intimate and thus interesting for Universal's lack of elaborate staging". See also Boris Karloff filmography Vincent Price filmography List of historical drama films Politics in fiction References Footnotes Sources External links Turner Classic Movies review with production notes 1939 films 1930s historical films American black-and-white films Films set in the 1480s Films set in the 15th century Films set in London Films set in England Films directed by Rowland V. Lee Universal Pictures films American historical films American films based on actual events Tower of London 1930s English-language films 1930s American films