Premature Burial

American International Pictures made two other Poe films without Price The Premature Burial (with Ray Milland, 1962) and Murders in the Rue Morgue (with Jason Robards, 1971). Corman directed eight of the total thirteen AIP Poe films, seven of which starred Price. 

Due to a lack of expertise, the Army and the ERA spent 20 million studying the site and issued a no further action decision in 1995. The author wrote an extensive report, excerpts of which are contained in Ch. 10. This report was critical of the Army s expertise and required more work to be done on the Spring Valley site. The Army orally and in its written response denied that it lacked such experience. Now that it was forced to reopen the site and excavate several more burial sites containing chemical weapons and material, it has posted a website acknowledging that this was the first such site it had ever cleaned up. It seems that the Army did not even know that it did not have experience in this area. Another 80 million has since been spent, and 650 more shells and 350 bottles of CWM and other reagents have been found to date in the second effort. Arsenic contamination on 10% of the properties needed to be cleaned up and now the parties agree that cleanup is just beginning. Clearly, a lack of environmental experience was responsible for the premature closure of the site. 

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