THEATRE OF BLOOD (1973)

Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart (Vincent Price) is as an actor overlooked for a critics' acting award, despite producing a season of Shakespearean plays. After confronting the Critics' Circle, an attempted suicidal dive into the Thames results in Lionheart being rescued by your typical paraffin/meths/turps swigging tramps. Lionheart then (presumed dead) exacts his grizzly, and quite amusing, revenge on the critics who denied him his finest hour. Director: Bert I. Gordon. Cast: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg,  Ian Hendry,  Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Diana Dors, Jack Hawkins,, Joan Hickson, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley, Milo O'Shea, Dennis Price and Eric Sykes.