RETURN OF THE FLY
July 1, 1959
Fifteen years after his father's experiments with matter transmission fail, Philippe Delambre and his uncle François attempt to create a matter transmission device on their own. However, their experiments have disastrous results, turning Philippe into a horrible half-man, half-fly creature.
Directors
Horror
Fantascienza
Cast
Vincent Price
Francois Delambre
Brett Halsey
Philippe Delambre
John Sutton
Insp. Beecham
David Frankham
Ronald Holmes, alias Alan Hinds
Dan Seymour
Max Berthold
Danielle De Metz
Cecile Bonnard
Jack Daly
Granville (reporter)
Janine Grandel
Mme. Bonnard
Richard Flato
Sgt. Dubois
Gregg Martell
Cop
Barry Bernard
Lt. MacLish
Pat O'Hara
Insp. Evans
Francisco Villalobos
Priest
Joan Cotton
Nurse
Michael Mark
Gaston (watchman)
Crew
Production:
Bernard Glasser (Producer)
Screenplay:
Edward Bernds (Writer)
Music:
Bert Shefter (Original Music Composer) — Paul Sawtell (Original Music Composer)
Cinematography:
Brydon Baker (Director of Photography)
REVIEWS (1)
The son of a scientist becomes the victim of his own experiment that turns his head and an arm into those of a fly. Fortunately, a policeman manages to capture the insect that has "acquired" the head and limb of the young man: by locking the two beings in a device, he will return them to normal. Again Vincent Price and again the mysterious (and never named this time) Doctor K. Even in the 1950s, one could not escape the "law of sequels" and so here is a predictable and useless follow-up to the successful 1958 film "The Experiment of Doctor K". The situations are the same, the special effects always good, but it is the suspense that is missing, as one could not expect otherwise since the film almost identically retakes the plot of Neumann's film. The first minutes of the film are then almost "comic" with an awkward Vincent Price who tries, with only the look (hallucinated!), to express the thoughts narrated by the voice-over. Curiosity: strangely, the film is in black and white, unlike the first episode which, although filmed a year earlier, was in color.
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