L'esperimento del dottor K.

Titolo originale: The Fly
Regia: Kurt Neumann |
Anno: 1958
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Fantascienza Horror Dramma
Tag: experiment | teleportation | inventor | mutation | hybrid | montreal, canada | scientist | housekeeper | spider web | told in flashback | fly (insect) | house fly | animal horror | fly/human hybrid | science laboratory | in-home laboratory | murder of husband |
Cast: David Hedison | Patricia Owens | Vincent Price | Herbert Marshall | Kathleen Freeman | Betty Lou Gerson | Charles Herbert | Eugene Borden | George Calliga | Harry Carter | Bill Clark | Arthur Dulac | Bess Flowers | Herschel Graham | Torben Meyer | Sol Murgi | George Nardelli | Franz Roehn | Charles Tannen |

Helene Delambre, sconvolta, confessa al cognato e alla polizia di avere ucciso suo marito André schiacciandogli la testa con una pressa. La donna racconta una storia che ha dell'inverosimile. André Delambre aveva realizzato un teletrasportatore, una macchina in grado di scomporre la materia trasferendola nello spazio per ricomporla altrove. Lo scienziato, dopo avere constatato che il congegno funzionava sugli oggetti, aveva deciso di sperimentarla su sé stesso convinto che fosse possibile smaterializzare e teletrasportare con la stessa facilità anche i corpi umani. Mentre si era accinto ad entrare nell'abitacolo della macchina, l'uomo non aveva fatto caso ad una mosca che era entrata con lui. L'esperimento si era trasformato in una tragedia: nella cabina di arrivo si erano materializzati un uomo con la testa e una zampa dell'insetto e un insetto con una minuscola testa e un braccio dell'uomo.

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Betty Lou Gerson, who played the nurse in the film, was also the voice of Cruella de Ville for the D [...] D
The ballet footage seen in the film on the night Andre and Helene go out to celebrate was originally [...] D
In the original short story, when Helene convinces Andre to go back again through the teleporter wit [...] D
The film was re-released in Spain three times: in 1988 (in a limited release and in a subtitled vers [...] D
This film's success, combined with that of Warner Brothers' 1953 3-D film House of Wax and William C [...] D
The costumes in this film are a classic example of 1950s sensibility. Andre and Helene relax around [...] D
The most famous scene of this film, the "Help me! Help meeeeee!" scene, was not repeated in the 1986 [...] D
Michael Rennie was offered the role of Andre Delambre in the film, but turned it down because his he [...] D
Although many people who saw this film swear it was made in black and white, it actually never was. [...] D
The actual teleportation that caused Andre and the fly to switch atoms is never seen in the film. D
David Hedison suggested that his character of Andre Delambre wear progressive makeup effects that sh [...] D
This film became the biggest box office hit of director Kurt Neumann's career, but he never knew it [...] D
One of the sound effects used in the film for the disintegrator/integrator is the "bass guitars play [...] D
In the first scene of the film, when the night watchman walks through the factory, he stops for a mo [...] D
The film's uncredited producer, Robert L. Lippert, was able to make additional money from its succes [...] D
That actually is David Hedison, not a stuntman, behind the Fly makeup in the film. D
This film was produced by Regal Films, which normally supplied 20th Century Fox with low budget blac [...] D
The scene in the film between Andre and Helene in the garden had to be re-dubbed because the birds i [...] D
The short story "The Fly" by French-British writer George Langelaan was the basis for the film. It w [...] D
Andre wears the same clothes in nearly every scene during the film, with the exception of the night [...] D
The sound made by the teleporter in this film is the same sound heard when the prototype disappears [...] D
In the scene in the film where the fly with Andre's head and arm is caught in the spider's web, a sm [...] D
Patricia Owens had a real fear of insects. Director Kurt Neumann used this to the film's advantage b [...] D
Writer James Clavell's first script for the film was faithful to George Langelaan's original short s [...] D
The film was not released in Spain until 1963, and then in a limited release and only in a subtitled [...] D
In four of the five "Fly" films (1958, 1959, 1986 and 1989) the laboratory is accessed by a large sl [...] D
Part of the laboratory set used in this film was Emerac, the computer from Fox's production La segre [...] D
This was the first produced screenplay for writer James Clavell. D
This film was shown as the top half of a double feature with the film Space Master X-7 (1958). D
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This film was included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 films nominated for the [...] D
When this film was released on DVD in New Zealand, it was given a Restricted 16 rating. D
Charles Herbert, who plays the Delambres' son Philippe in the film, was one of the busier child acto [...] D