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The Fly (1958)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:28
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A classic science-fiction/horror film about a scientist's "teleport" machines, which dissolve atoms in one place to recreate them in another. When the scientist unwittingly shares the machine with... A classic science-fiction/horror film about a scientist's "teleport" machines, which dissolve atoms in one place to recreate them in another. When the scientist unwittingly shares the machine with a common housefly, he turns into a hideous hybrid of man and insect--and begins to literally bug out. The scientist wants to reverse the process, but first he must catch that fly. Hilarious as well as horrific, this spawned two sequels in the '50s (RETURN OF THE FLY and CURSE OF THE FLY) before starting another cycle in the '80s, beginning with David Cronenberg's remake. [More]
Starring: Vincent Price, David Hedison, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Owens
Starring: Vincent Price, David Hedison, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Owens, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson, Charles Herbert, Eugene Borden, Torben Meyer, Harry Carter, Charles Tannen, Franz Roehn
Director: Kurt Neumann
Director: Kurt Neumann
Screenwriter: James Clavell
Producer: Kurt Neumann
Composer: Paul Sawtell
Reviews for The Fly
A barometer for what some people perceive as funny and what others think is creepy
Though hardly a masterpiece, [the film] stands in many ways above the level of B-movie science fiction common in the 1950s.
Slightly above average 50s science fiction (1958), enlivened by a nearly literate script by James Clavell.
There's something truly fly about this unparalleled fly story that zaps you right in the old guts.
Clavell's script successfully treads a fine line between black comedy and po-faced seriousness.
The Fly has, over the years, acquired the reputation as some sort of a classic. How this has been achieved I am afraid I am at a loss to explain.
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