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Collection ID
1553
Director:
Kurt Neumann
Starring:
David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman
Genre:
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Studio:
Twentieth Century Fox
Release date:
1958
Rated:
Not Rated
Language (Country):
English, French
(USA)
Summary:
After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months. They were very much in love and with their little boy, a very happy family. Andre was experimenting with teleportation - transporting objects from one point to another by breaking the object down to the atomic level and then reassembling it in a receiver a distance away. The system had some glitches - it seemed to work with inanimate object but his cat disappeared when he tried teleporting it. He thinks he's solved all of the problems with his invention and decides to try and teleport himself. When a fly enters the teleportation device with him, disaster strikes.
My Rating:
My Review: Written by James Clavell, directed by Kurt Neumann. Starring David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall and others. Here is the original sci-fi classic - Science gone awry. Man meddling with the primal forces of nature. Here a scientist is experimenting with matter transference (teleportation). The movie opens with a murder mystery. Why would Helene Delambre willingly murder her husband? What are the circumstances of this bizarre crime? As the inspector (Herbert Marshall) and family friend (Vincent Price) begin their investigation, they have no idea the bizarre facts they are about to uncover. Working on his own, imbued with arrogance, Andre Delambre (played by Al Hedison) presumes that he has considered all the possibilities. As he steps into his matter transport booth, a mundane house fly enters with him. As the transference occurs, their atoms are mixed and a horrific abomination steps out of the booth. A fantastic, fatalistic, drama, wrapped up in a thrilling sci-fi wrapper. Magnificent writing, acting and set design. I give it a 5 out of 5.
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