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[The Fly 1958]
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[The Fly 1958]
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[Return Of The Fly 1959]
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[Return Of The Fly 1959]
The Fly 1958.
Wealthy Helene Delambre (Patricia Owens) is discovered late at night in the
factory owned by her husband Andre (David Hedison). Helene stands beside a
huge metal press, which has crushed the head and arm of her husband. Held
for murder, the near-catatonic Helene refuses to tell anyone--not even
Andre's brother Francois (Vincent Price)--why she did it. Francois cannot
help but notice that Helene reacts in mortal terror when a tiny flies zips
through the room. Nor can he disregard the statement made by Helene's son
Philippe (Charles Herbert) that the fly has a curious white head and leg.
When Francois pretends that he's captured the fly, Helene relaxes enough
to tell her story. It seems that Andre, a scientist, had been working on
a matter transmitter, which he claimed could disintegrate matter, then
reintegrate it elsewhere. After a few experiments, Andre tried the
transmitter himself. Just as he stepped into the disintegration chamber,
a fly also flew into the chamber. We aren't immediately shown the results
of this, save for the fact that Andre afterward insists upon keeping his
head and arm covered. Alone with her husband, Helene abruptly removes the
covering, revealing that Andre now bears the head of a fly! His atoms have
become mixed up with the fly, and now he is unable to reverse the procedure.
Deciding that his transmitter will be a bogy rather than a blessing to
mankind, Andre smashes the apparatus and burns his notes. He then instructs
Helene, via body language, to crush his fly-like head and arm in the press.
Neither Francois nor inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall) believe the story
until, while staring intently at a spider's web in the garden, they see a
tiny entrapped fly with Andre's head and arm, tinnily screaming Help me!
Help me! as the slavering spider approaches (If you're wondering why
Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall do not look one another in the eye
during this scene, it is because they couldn't deliver their dialogue
without dissolving into laughter).
Stars.
=>-David Hedison.
=>-Patricia Owens.
=>-Vincent Price.
Director.
=>-Kurt Neumann.
Return Of The Fly 1959.
This sequel to Kurt Neumann's The Fly (1958) is peculiar, to say the least.
Producer director Neumann had passed away during the summer of 1958, and
the studio needed a sequel. The resulting film, Return of the Fly, was
directed by Edward L. Bernds, a filmmaker (and former sound man at Columbia
Pictures) most closely associated with the Three Stooges, but who had
lately moved successfully into popular science fiction, with movies such
as World Without End, Space Master X-7, and Queen of Outer Space to his
credit -- not that this last, in particular, seemed to qualify him for
anything but tongue-in-cheek satire. Curse of the Fly was shot in
CinemaScope but in black-and-white, an unusual combination that is usually
associated with artier movies, as a compromise for discriminating directors
who can't avoid the widescreen format but want to present something serious;
in this particular case, however, it was purely a budgetary decision.
Vincent Price is the nominal star as Francois Delambre, the brother of
Andre Delambre, who died as a result of his experiments with a matter
transmitting device in The Fly. It is now a dozen years later, and Andre's
son, Philippe (Brett Halsey), has just laid his mother to rest, having
witnessed the final years of her life blighted by the memory of the horror
of Andre's death. He convinces Francois to tell him what happened and of
the device that destroyed his parents happy life together. Philippe vows
to perfect the matter transmitter, so that all of the heartache and
sacrifice by his parents will not have been in vain. He employs as his
assistant a scientist friend, Alan Hinds (David Frankham), who,
unbeknownst to him, has shady business connections and a dark secret
in his own past. Alan conspires to steal the secret of the matter
transmitter, but first he must dispose of a detective who has come to
arrest him for an earlier crime, and then eliminate Philippe, who doesn't
know what Alan has done, only that he's hiding something. Thus, the same
disaster that befell Philippe's father now occurs again, to him -- his
body parts are transposed with those of a house-fly. The human-sized fly,
even nastier looking than the monster in the original film, goes on a
rampage, trying to catch Alan and get revenge for what has happened to
him, using what faculties he has. Meanwhile, Francois gets help from the
surviving detective on his brother's case, who knows the truth, and the
two try to trap the monster alive and also find the fly-sized creature
with Philippe's head and features, so they can try and unscramble the
atoms of both.
Stars.
=>-Brett Halsey.
=>-David Frankham.
=>-Vincent Price.
Director.
=>-Edward Bernds.
Info.
=>-Genre : Horror : Sci-Fi : Drama.
=>-Release Date : 1958 : 1959.
=>-Language : English.
=>-File Size : 1.25 GiB : 1.07 GiB.
=>-Overall bit rate : 1 907 Kbps.
=>-Movie Runtime : 1h 33mn : 1h 20mn.
Video.
=>-Codec : H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
=>-Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1.
=>-Resolution : 1280 x 544.
=>-Bit rate : 1789 Kbps.
Audio English.
=>-Codec : mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC.
=>-Channels : 2 channel Stereo.
=>-Bit Rate : 112 Kbps.
=>-Maximum bit rate : 191 Kbps.
Subtitles Softsubbed SubRip MicroDVD.
=>-English. |
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