The Fly (1958)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 94m
Director: Kurt Neumann
Cast: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall
Synopsis:
A scientist experimenting with the teleportation of matter accidentally scrambles his own molecules with those of an intrusive housefly. Result: man with fly's head.
Review:
After a gory opening an hour of tedium precedes the unmasking of 'the monster', and thereafter things warm up a little in this famous horror exploiter in which howlers abound. One of these, the hapless scientist's inability to control his 'bad arm', is not its fault, foreshadowing as it does the antics of Dr Strangelove a few years later. Dialogue and acting are not great, and the use of Cinemascope for a film of this type is just plain silly. David Cronenberg remade the film effectively in 1986.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 94m
Director: Kurt Neumann
Cast: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall
Synopsis:
A scientist experimenting with the teleportation of matter accidentally scrambles his own molecules with those of an intrusive housefly. Result: man with fly's head.
Review:
After a gory opening an hour of tedium precedes the unmasking of 'the monster', and thereafter things warm up a little in this famous horror exploiter in which howlers abound. One of these, the hapless scientist's inability to control his 'bad arm', is not its fault, foreshadowing as it does the antics of Dr Strangelove a few years later. Dialogue and acting are not great, and the use of Cinemascope for a film of this type is just plain silly. David Cronenberg remade the film effectively in 1986.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 94m
Director: Kurt Neumann
Cast: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Herbert Marshall
Synopsis:
A scientist experimenting with the teleportation of matter accidentally scrambles his own molecules with those of an intrusive housefly. Result: man with fly's head.
Review:
After a gory opening an hour of tedium precedes the unmasking of 'the monster', and thereafter things warm up a little in this famous horror exploiter in which howlers abound. One of these, the hapless scientist's inability to control his 'bad arm', is not its fault, foreshadowing as it does the antics of Dr Strangelove a few years later. Dialogue and acting are not great, and the use of Cinemascope for a film of this type is just plain silly. David Cronenberg remade the film effectively in 1986.