WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema: The Abominable Dr. Phibes 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.360 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind production of My 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:15.840 Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.800 Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And who I 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.840 hope you like Oregan music because today we're doing Dr five's. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:29.120 That's right, the Abominable Dr fives from one. Uh. This 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.720 is a film that is frequently described as a dark 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.040 comedy horror film, which is a It is kind of 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.760 a way of saying this movie is weird, and we 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.400 don't really know how to classify it, you know, because 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.479 it certainly has Yeah, it has comedic flair in it, 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.800 it has horror flare um, but it's it's ultimately its 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.640 own unique weird vision. Uh. And it's it's really difficult 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.840 to compare it to just about anything else. I would 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.920 almost say it's a musical, though the characters don't sing songs. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.640 There are a lot of musical numbers and dancing. Yes, yeah, 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:09.880 it's very theatrical. Um Like, in trying to come up 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.840 with an elevator pitch for it, I was thinking, it's 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.360 it's kind of Phantom of the Opera meets Batman meets 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:19.240 a wax museum horror movie and a swanky, unoccupied nightclub 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.399 for stylish madmen. But but also you have to say 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.760 the words Vincent Price, because I think that is a 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.039 key element of establishing the themes. Yeah, I think this 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.040 is our first Vincent Price film, and um and Fibes 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.560 has been on our our our list, It's been on 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:35.600 our radar for a while, and I know we've heard 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:39.600 from at least a couple of listeners suggesting it, and 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.480 it came up again recently when I was looking at 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:47.000 films that had very well regarded movie scores and so yeah, yeah, 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.559 this is, uh, this is our first Vincent Price film. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.280 That we did discuss The Tingler from N nine and 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.680 an old episode of Stuff to Blow your Mind, but 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.400 that was pretty weird house that was more of a 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.120 like we used The Tingler as a bringboard to discuss 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.240 some science or vice versa. You know. I would say 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.040 The Tingler is somewhat different because The Tingler is a 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.520 William Castle movie that has Vincent Price in it. But 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.120 lots of Vincent Price movies, it almost feels as if 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.720 it doesn't matter who the director is and it's just 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.839 it just becomes a Vincent Price movie. I would say 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.600 this is one of those it is and then on 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.480 the on the same level, one thing I kept thinking 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.400 about is, Okay, Vincent Price plays a character in this 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:35.240 film that that doesn't actually speak with his voice anymore. Uh. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:38.600 You hear Vincent Price's voice, but it's like a it's 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:42.240 it's like through a machine. And so it's it's unique 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:43.679 to be watching this and you think, oh, well, you know, 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.240 Vincent Prices is great, like as a visual performer, he 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.400 has this amazing voice, uh, and yet we have a 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.040 character who's uh, in many ways mute in this film, 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.160 and it kind of it kind of applies to other 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.160 characters in the film as well, like a lot of 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.560 a lot of the people in this film are just 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.840 part of the set piece. It's about about creating this 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:10.040 this theatrical vision somehow. Though, even though he doesn't speak 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.800 with his mouth in the movie, the price ham juice 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:18.640 gets on everything, like the Vincent Price campiness comes through 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.440 in the energy exuded by every other actor in the film. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.280 And I was going to compare it to another great 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.679 horror movie that I just watched within the last year, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.400 because they are so similar. This other movie is called 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.400 Theater of Blood from nineteen seventy three. So it came 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.600 out two years after Dr Fibes. But if you can 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.600 believe this, listen to all the parallels. Both movies star 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.920 Vincent Price as a performing artist of some kind who 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:50.480 is presumed dead but returns to enact an elaborate plan 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:55.119 of revenge on a list of nine specific enemies, targeting 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.560 each one in a succession of sort of themed murders. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.640 And in Dr Fibes the themed murders are based on 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.440 the tin plagues of Egypt in the Book of Exodus, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.280 and in Theater of Blood they're based on deaths in 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.680 the plays of Shakespeare. And in both movies, the Price 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.000 character has a cool, younger female sidekick. In Theater of 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:18.040 Blood that is actually the It is Vincent Price's character's daughter, 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:22.479 played by Diana Rigg, who always great. Dia rig one 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.920 of my favorites, and in that one, uh, she's great. 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.800 But also in that when Vincent Price plays a ham 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.960 Shakespearean actor instead of an organist. All right, well, those 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:39.600 are certainly some five vibes. You're definitely vibing with fibies there. Um. 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.440 You know one thing that I was thinking about, especially 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.080 towards the end of this picture, and we'll discuss the 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:49.600 plot here that uh was that this film The Abominable 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:54.520 Doctor fives. It's kind of like the precursor to such 0:04:54.720 --> 0:05:00.240 dreary themed murder films as uh seven as I don't 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.880 even thinking like Resurrection and of course the Saw movies. 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:05.599 Except this movie is like what if you had something 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.400 like that and it was at least ten times is fun? 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.760 You know? Um oh more than that? Yeah, this is 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:17.080 the exact opposite. This is a weird, elaborate themed murders 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:21.760 but just bouncing on rays of sunshine. Yes, So, I 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.719 think Dr Fibes is one of my new show favorites. 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.960 It's going on the list with uh, I think some 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.480 of the best movies we've watched on here, like uh, 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.120 I don't keep a running list of my favorites, but 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.560 they're somewhere in my head. It's gonna be like Mad Love, 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:40.000 Robot Jock's Ship of Monsters and and oh and Inframan 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.080 and this one's going up there too. Yeah. It's it's 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.440 extremely watchable. I can easily recommend this one to to 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.840 film fans of different genres because it does transcend genre. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.080 It's not just a horror film, uh, It's it's just 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:59.560 so stylish so love lovingly stylish that I feel like 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.600 it can suck in just about anybody, like you're just 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.480 just about any given scene. Even the scenes that don't 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:11.920 play take place within dr Fibes, Subterranean, Um Organum fun 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:16.919 House are still like lavishly decorated and and ingeniously shot. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.800 Totally agree? All right, well, let's go ahead and listen 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:30.080 to the trailer. Here, h what lovely music for a murder? 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:40.440 Or two or three or nine? Who's this? Ladies and gentlemen, 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:48.279 I want you to meet a dear friend. Nine killed you, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:54.760 nine shall die your wife? No fibes but you I 0:06:54.839 --> 0:07:04.520 will kill but you go? Doctor I already dead? But 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.560 what's the guitar? The town cut is visited among the 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:35.280 pharoahs before Exodus. Are you ready for Doctor five? All right, 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.800 let's talk about some of the people involved in this 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.640 motion picture. First of all, let's start at the top 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:45.720 with the director, Robert Fust Fust Live through two thousand 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.160 and twelve, British director noted for his unique genre style. UM. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.320 It should come as no surprise to to some fans 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.640 out there that he came up through the Avengers TV 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.960 show before making such features as nineteen seventies and Soon 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:04.200 in the Darkness, a thriller nineteen seventy adaptation of Worthering 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:08.560 Heights with Timothy Dalton is Heathcliff, followed by the two 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:13.080 Doctor Five's films. Uh nineteen seventy three is the Final Program, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.440 which was based on a Michael moorecock novel starring John Finch, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:22.240 and seventy five satanic melt oh Mania movie The Devil's 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:27.680 Ragin starring Ernest board Nine, The Shot, Tom Scarrett, John Travolta, 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:31.080 and of course uh Anton LaVey. I was wondering if 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.880 we should come back to The Devil's Reign on weird House. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.079 It is a notorious for being not very good but 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:41.600 also being sort of worth seeing. Yeah, yeah, it has 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.160 greatness in it, and I think maybe we're in a 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.080 better place, will be in a better place to understand 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.800 it having experienced fibes. But uh yeah, and also it 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.960 is possible that maybe the world just wasn't ready for 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.360 the Devil's Rain um, especially when you look at his filmography, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:00.600 because it looks like, uh, he mostly did TV after 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.040 The Devil's Reign. All right. Um. The writers on this, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:09.280 they're two credited writers, James Whitten born two thousand and 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.520 sixteen American writer who wrote the story for two Murder 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.880 by Phone starring Richard Chamberlain. And then there's also William Goldstein, 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.959 credited on both fives movies plus nineteen seventies six is 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.520 The Amazing Doberman's, in which quote an ex con man 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.760 and his five trained Doberman's helped the Treasury Department agent 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.560 stop a racketeer and his gang. It starred James Franciscus, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.760 Barbara Eden, Fred Astaire, and Billy Bardi. Um. It has 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.680 an amazing poster. And my wife says that she remembered 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.080 this movie. I think her her family they always had 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.319 Doberman so I think they've watched any if there was 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.440 a Doberman movie, Uh, they watched it. Imagine the pitch 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:53.160 for that. What about Doberman's that solved mysteries? I think 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.080 there was a They also tried to turn into a 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.600 TV show. Wait, what kind of dog was Scooby Doo? 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:59.120 I guess he was supposed to be like a great 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.000 day In or something. Yeah, yeah, and not a The 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.840 Doberman's have those like the pointy head, those really dirty 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.960 pointed heads. Yeah, um derpy or terrifying depends on how 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.079 you look at him, but they can they can look 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.640 quite dirty, all right. Uh. The star of this film 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.840 playing Dr Anton Fives is Vincent Price, who lived nineteen 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.400 eleven through nineteen The legend himself got all of him 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.920 and an actor of great genuine talent who could have 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:31.000 kept pressing just to focus on serious film roles, but 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:35.000 but embraced camp. And that's something I really respect, Yes, 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.320 and it was really really a master of it. Yeah. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.080 Price was active on screen from the late thirties to 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.880 the early nineties. You know, great voice, great look, horror 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.640 icon um. You know, could could really play serious threat. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:51.400 But also it seemed to have a great sense of 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.880 humor and was able to play that up. I was 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.200 active in various genres, especially early on in his career, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.280 and you see him, you know, showing up in some 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.559 some serious pictures during that time period for sure. Uh. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.080 And then he did all sorts of celebrity appearances and 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.920 product endorsements later in life, and it seems seemed to 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.599 very much you know, cash in on things to a 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.719 certain extent. And again, God bless him, he learned it 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.840 by that point. But uh, time life enchanted world commercials. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.920 I think he did commercials for what are they called wine? Uh? 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.000 What was that brand of wine coolers? Yes, where he's 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:28.600 dressed like a polar bear. Um like, I I highly 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.840 recommend anyone out there just do a like a YouTube 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:36.600 search for Vincent Price commercials and you'll get numerous results 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.520 and they're all great. Oh if you find the ones 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.559 where he's doing wine coolers. I don't remember the brand name, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.200 but that same brand of wine coolers also has commercials 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.480 with Grace Jones that are amazing. Ultimately, I would say 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.720 the Vincent Price pop culture footprint is almost just too 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.880 huge for us to possibly do justice here in a 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.839 single episode. So for my part, I'm just going to 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.640 mention a few of my favorites, uh from from a 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.080 few different categories. So, first of all, in film, as 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:05.760 much as I love this film, again, it is kind 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.120 of weird to cast Vincent Price in a role where 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.920 he doesn't actually speak. I think they're they're you know, 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.439 they're much better examples of him acting both as a 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.680 pure protagonist and also as an antagonist. Um. You know. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.920 Roger Corman's Mask of the Red Death is a great 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.520 example of him in pure villain mode, while the in 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.640 the Tingler. We get to see him as a as 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.240 kind of a tortured hero. Um, wait, is he a hero? No? 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.800 Wait a minute, he's he's like trying to murder his 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.920 wife and the Tingler. Oh, well, yes he was, but 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.760 didn't he Well wait no, I think he's sort of 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.040 he sort of is the hero, but he's a bad dude. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:41.480 Is there a film where he plays like a pure protagonist? Oh, 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.319 I'm sure there's plenty of one. The Last Man on Earth, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.559 which is one of the many film adaptations of I 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.600 Am Legend, is one of the earlier ones. He's in 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.400 that and he plays the main character. Um. How many 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:56.760 film adaptations of I Am Legend are there? There's the 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:00.640 there's the Omega Man. Yeah, there's the the one with 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.480 Will Smith, There's the one with Vincent Price. There at 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.960 least three, but there may be more. Yeah, and I 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.240 think they're they're planning on making more now. Vincent Price 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.559 also did a lot of television. Uh. One notable thing 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.960 is he appeared on Night Gallery. I think a couple 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.840 of times, including the nineteen seventy two episode The Return 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.400 of the Sorcerer, which is one of the few adaptations 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.080 of a Clark Ashton Smith short story. When it comes 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.880 to just pure selebbing, I'd say his nineteen seventy seven 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.000 appearance on The Muppet Show is pretty stellar. That that's 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.480 right in his element. I mean, oh yeah, Price can 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.800 act opposite a puppet. Yes, yes, very well. Though of 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:39.720 those Muppet shows, some of them, if you try and 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.839 watch them in their entirety, some of them can be 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.800 a little painful at times. There, I mean there it was. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.840 It was a Hammy show. Uh, you know, not everything 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.000 holds up all that well. But but Price was great 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.600 on that. Now, when it comes to music and spoken word, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.000 that this is fact. I wasn't familiar with the pure 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.520 scope of this. But uh, if you go to discogs 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.200 dot com, Vincent Price has sixty eight listings. To put 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.800 that in perspective, Christopher Lee only had twenty six, which 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.800 is nothing to sneeze at. Um, but sixty eight listings. 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:14.680 Does that include Christopher Lee's metal albums? I think it didn't. Yeah, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.200 now I won't. I won't pretend to have heard even 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:22.880 half of the uh the releases from Vincent Price. But 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.480 but I've I've got to go with his excellent spoken 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.960 word bit in the three track thriller Uh. That you know, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.600 it's loads of fun, the funk of forty thousand years. Um. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.840 And then when it comes to product endorsements, Um again 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:42.120 the timeline books, Um, Enchanted World's advertisement is great. But 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.520 also he did one for Monster Vitamins. It's a lot 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.680 of fun as animated monsters in it, and he's talking 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.880 it's a children's vitamin commercial. But you've got Vincent Bryce 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.120 there again. We we can't go through everything that Vincent 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.240 Price was in, but just to mention a few of 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.000 the big ones. He was in the Ten Commandments, who 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.560 was in House of Whack, the fly House, Unhaunted Hill. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.920 He popped up on the old sixties TV Batman series. Uh, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.240 he's a voice in The Great Mouse Detective. He plays 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.080 the villainous rat and that, and then of course his 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:18.120 final feature film appearance is in Edward scissor Hands Rest 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:23.240 in Peace Man, So Vincent prices His character Dr Five's 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.800 is listed in the end credits to this movie as 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.000 one of two protagonists. Um, which is so you know, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.360 humorous but also in keeping with the strange vibe of 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.840 the film. Uh. The other protagonist is listed as Doctor 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.360 of Salius, played by Joseph Cotton. Joseph Cotton is another 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.640 legend star of film, stage, radio and television Live nineteen 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.760 o five through probably best remembered for his roles and 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.320 I think three different orson Wells movies Citizen Kane and 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.560 forty one, The Magnificent Emberson's at forty two Journey into 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.920 Fear and forty three. Uh. He's also known for The 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.960 Third Man from forty nine. I think that was the 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:06.000 first first thing I really remember him from, so I 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.320 guess I probably watched Citizen Kane around the same time. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.600 He was also in gas Light, which is where we 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.280 get the term gas lighting from. And later on he 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.400 appeared in such films as Soiling Green and seventy three, 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:24.480 and such Italian films as Marcelo Alprandi's nine seventies six 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.800 film They Whisper in the Dark and Sergio Martino's excellent 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:32.040 Island of the Fishmen a k A. Screamers excellent. So 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.920 any anything he's in, it's a it's a solid screen presence. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.320 So in this he plays this character, Doctor Vassalius, who 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.840 is the the last of the enemies targeted for revenge 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.920 by Dr Fibes. Yeah, because this film ultimately follows uh 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.640 A pattern that you see in a number of different 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.160 revenge films with kind of an anti hero revenge killer 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.720 at the center is he'll have a number of targets 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.200 and you'll start with the targets that are you either 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.800 don't know much about out or or or or who 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.240 are actively villainous in some way or another, and then 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.440 you work your way towards a character who is more 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:12.240 relatable and so you know, it forces you to sort 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:15.280 of enjoy the early kills but feel conflicted about the 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:26.639 later kills that are planned. All right, some of the 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:30.679 other people here, we have Peter Jeffrey in this um, 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.600 probably probably not an actor that a lot of people 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.960 are familiar with. He plays Inspector Harry Trout. He's the 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.040 hard nosed British detective on the case. Ultimately has a 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:43.800 lot of screen time in this um. He lived and 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.359 he had roles in such films as The Adventures of 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.680 Baron Muchausen, Midnight Express, The Return of the Pink Panther, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.920 and he played the character Count Grendel on Doctor Who, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.560 among I think some other characters on Doctor Here. He 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.680 did a lot of TV work. This is our main 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.840 Scotland yard detective trying to solve the case of the 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:06.359 doctors being murdered in bizarre ways. Inspector killed war Trout. Yeah, 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.080 and it's it's pretty fun because at times he comes 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:10.920 up a little bit comedic. Other times he's just kind 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.399 of just the hard nosed cop trope. Yeah, oh oh, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.240 but we've got to talk about so in this movie, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:19.000 Dr Fibes has a sidekick. He has an assistant named 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.160 vol Navia, and she's great. Yes, it's played by Virginia North, 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.680 who in my notes here I have six through two 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.320 thousand nine ninety four, I suspect that I have a 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:34.760 type of there. And she actually lived to two thousand four. 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.960 Make that two thousand and four, not two thousand nine. Anyway, 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:40.879 she was a fashion model who only appeared in a 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.160 handful of titles, including this, which was her final final film, 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.479 and she was She also pops up in On Her 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.639 Majesty's Secret Service. She wasn't a bond girl, however, as 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.560 the main love interest in that movie was played by 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.720 Diana Rigg, the great Diana Rigg. But yeah, I really 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.359 enjoy North as vol Navia in this movie. She this 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.119 is also both of our sort of villain roles. The 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.680 killers in this movie do not speak directly. Vincent Price 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.160 only speaks through like a tube in his neck plugged 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.840 into a phonograph in some scenes, and Vilnavia doesn't speak 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.400 at all, though she does play a mean violin as 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.119 as like doctors are being drained of all their blood 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:21.040 and she can she can wield a golden axe. That's right. 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.200 So yeah, she's stylish and she's helpful. Now we're not 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.440 going to list all of the various doctors who are 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.719 murdered by Dr fives, but two of them are noteworthy. Uh, 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:34.640 there's a doctor Longstreet played by Terry Thomas. That of course, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:38.159 there's Terry hyphen Thomas, who lived nineteen eleven through n 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:40.800 This is one of those guys who you just see 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.199 his face and even if it's a still photograph, you 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:49.240 can imagine the sounds he's making and there's something like yeah, yeah, yes, yeah. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:53.520 He tremendous British comedian and character actor who really excelled 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:56.920 at playing kind of like um, kind of like bumbling 0:19:57.200 --> 0:20:03.200 fops and upper crust weird and um yeah, there's a 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:07.000 certain type of role that Terry Thomas just absolutely excelled 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.120 at in this movie. He's a little bit Harvey Corman, 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.280 but also a little you're gonna balk for a second, 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:17.359 I think, but a little bit wings Houser. Well, he 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.400 definitely choose the scenes with with a with a wings 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:27.119 Houser in Ian uh intensity Um. Terry Thomas was in 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:29.960 loads of stuff, but I'd say probably the biggest film 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.560 he was in, the most most well known is perhaps 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.080 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World from sixty three. 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.960 He also pops up in Danger Diabolic from sixty eight, 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.720 which is another highly stylish film, and that one was 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.720 of course featured on Mystery Science Theater three thousand. He 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.560 was also a great voice actor. If if you've seen 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.280 Walt Disney's Robin Hood, the animated Robin Hood with all 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.320 the animal characters from Envy three, he is the voice 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.080 of Sir Hiss the Snake. He's sort of the toady 0:20:57.240 --> 0:21:00.560 to the to the cowardly lion prince I believes out Yes, 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:04.560 all right, another doctor we have doctor Um Hargreaves, played 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:07.800 by Alex Scott. Alex Scott was in Next of Kin 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:12.399 from two, which we just covered on a Weird House Cinema. 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.399 So I won't go into detail about him, but you know, 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.480 if you want to hear more about Alex Scott. We 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:21.960 discussed him in the cast section for our previous episode. 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.280 He was the doctor in Next of Kin. Yes, he 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.920 was the doctor, and he's a doctor in this one too. Yeah, 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:32.480 in this one he's a he's a psychiatrist, right, he 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:37.199 puts on the frog mask. Now another small but but 0:21:37.320 --> 0:21:40.560 fun role, we have Hugh Griffith popping up playing a 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:44.520 rabbi who's called in or called upon by the inspectors 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:48.639 to give some some expert advice on some of the 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:52.720 clues they've discovered. Griffith live nineteen twelve through nineteen eighty 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:56.240 a Welsh actor who actually won the Best Supporting oscar 0:21:56.800 --> 0:22:01.240 Um Actor oscar in nineteen sixty for Ben her Now 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:04.639 the next Oh, this, this is one where I think you. 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:08.159 I don't think she was actually credited originally on this film, 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.119 but you might say that this film also stars a 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:15.879 photograph of Caroline Monroe. That's right. Uh, when we actually 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:21.280 see so she plays Dr fives deceased wife, and at 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:23.400 some point later in the movie we actually see her 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:26.520 dead body. But I don't think that's Caroline Monroe. Yeah, 0:22:26.640 --> 0:22:29.320 I think it's just photographs oftware that are used which 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:33.080 is which is interesting especially since uh, since she did 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:36.080 go on to she wasn't a number of films she 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:38.720 she was a pin up model, an actress who I 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.160 think ultimately stolen seems to have stolen many like seventies 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:45.800 film Nerds Heart because she she pops up in films 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:48.560 like The Spy Loved Me from seventy seven, The Golden 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:52.920 Voyage of Sinbad from seventy three, Captain Cronos Vampire Hunter 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.560 from seventy four, At the Earth's Core from seventy six, 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:59.639 Star Crash from seventy eight, Star Crash, Yeah, Star Crash, Uh, 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:04.400 Dracula A d nineventy two from nineteen seventy two. Um, 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:05.960 and then she was in some stuff in the eighties 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:10.400 of note like a Maniac and Slaughter High. But yeah, 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:13.879 this is it barely counts as an appearance, Like you 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:17.920 could say that, uh Rita Hayworth is uh just as 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:23.200 much an acting component in Schasna Shank Redemption as Caroline 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.760 Monroe is actually a cast member of this film, though 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:27.720 her photo does get a lot of screen time, as 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:30.919 we have multiple scenes of Vincent Price just worshiping a 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:35.120 headshot of Caroline Monroe. Yeah all, but but praying to her. 0:23:35.440 --> 0:23:37.680 You know. Another tie into a recent episode of the 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:42.439 show with with beast Master two. Apparently Caroline Monroe was 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.240 at some point in the running to play the character 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:50.000 Ursa in Superman, the Villain from the Planet Crypton, the 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:52.800 part that eventually went to the actress Sarah Douglas, who 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.560 played the sorceress in beast Master two and who I 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:57.600 thought was by far the best part of that movie. 0:23:58.119 --> 0:24:00.520