DescriptionMONSTROUS MARQUEE - Pit and the Pendulum, The - Roosevelt - Chicago, Illinois - August, 1961.jpg
English: The marquee of the Roosevelt theater in Chicago, Illinois, in August 1961. It reads, in all caps, "Poe's Diabolical Thriller", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "No one admitted while the pendulum is swinging", "Vincent Price", "Barbara Steele", "John Kerr", "In color", and "Panavision".
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