The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Vincent Price
Dr. Anton Phibes
Joseph Cotten
Dr. Vesalius
Hugh Griffith
Rabbi
Terry-Thomas
Dr. Longstreet
Virginia North
Vulnavia
Peter Jeffrey
Inspector Trout
Derek Godfrey
Crow
Norman Jones
Sgt. Schenley
John Cater
Superintendent Waverley
Aubrey Woods
Goldsmith
John Laurie
Darrow
Maurice Kaufmann
Dr. Whitcombe
Barbara Keogh
Mrs. Frawley
Sean Bury
Lem Vesalius
Susan Travers
Nurse Allen
David Hutcheson
Dr. Hedgepath
Edward Burnham
Dr. Dunwoody
Alex Scott
Dr. Hargreaves
Peter Gilmore
Dr. Kitaj
Sally Nicholl
CastingDirector
Alan Zipson
1st Police Official
Dallas Adams
2nd Police Official
James Grout
Sergeant
Alister Williamson
1st Policeman
Thomas Heathcote
2nd Policeman
Ian Marter
3rd Policeman
Charles Farrell
Chauffeur
John Franklyn
Graveyard Attendant
Walter Horsbrugh
Ross, the Butler
Julian Grant
4th Policeman
Paul Frees
Singer of 'The Darktown Strutters' Ball' (voice)
Juba Kennerley
Gentlemens Club Member, Calling For Quiet
Caroline Munro
Victoria Regina Phibes
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Executive Producer / Presenter
Ronald Dunas
Producer
Louis M. Heyward
Producer
James H. Nicholson
Executive Producer / Presenter
Robert Fuest
Director
James Whiton
Screenplay
William Goldstein
Screenplay
Tristam Cones
Editor
Sally Nicholl
Casting
Norman Warwick
Director of Photography
Bernard Reeves
Art Direction
Chris Burke
Assistant Art Director
George Blackwell
Special Effects
Godfrey A. Godar
Camera Operator
John Jay
Still Photographer
Peter Lennard
ADR & Dubbing
Bernadette Ibbetson
Hairstylist
Trevor Crole-Rees
Makeup Artist
Basil Kirchin
Original Music Composer
Richard F. Dalton
Production Manager
Frank Ernst
Assistant Director
Gary Michael White
Third Assistant Director
Brian Eatwell
Set Designer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 18, 1971
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Content RatingPG
Box Office$1,827,000
Filming LocationsHertfordshire, United Kingdom
Genres
Wiki.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes is a 1971 British dark comedy horror film, produced by Ronald S. Dunas and Louis M. Heyward, directed by Robert Fuest, written by William Goldstein and James Whiton, and starring Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten. Its art deco sets, dark humour, and performance by Price have made the film and its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again cult classics. The film also features Terry-Thomas and Hugh Griffith, with an uncredited Caroline Munro appearing as Phibes's wife.
The film follows the title character, Dr Anton Phibes, who blames the medical team that attended to his wife's surgery four years prior for her death and sets out to exact vengeance on each one. Phibes is inspired in his murderous spree by the Ten Plagues of Egypt from the Old Testament. However, the Ten Plagues in the film considerably differ from those in the literary Old Testament; some plagues were dropped, new plagues were added, and even those plagues which remain the same are ordered differently, such as the death of the first-born no longer being the final plague.