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Fiend without a face / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; an Amalgamated production ; screenplay by Herbert J. Leder ; produced by John Croydon ; directed by Arthur Crabtree.
LIBRA DVD 008 133
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 92.
- The Criterion collection ; 92
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Long, Amelia Reynolds, 1904-1978--Film adaptations.
- Long, Amelia Reynolds.
- Long, Amelia Reynolds, 1904-1978.
- Scientists--Drama.
- Scientists.
- Monsters--Drama.
- Monsters.
- Science--Moral and ethical aspects--Drama.
- Science.
- Science--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Science fiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Horror films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2000]
- Language Note:
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD ; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A scientist performing renegade research on thought materialization unwittingly creates creatures of pure atomic energy that hunger for human nervous systems. These brain-like creatures begin attacking people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains.
- Participant:
- Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Kim Parker, Stanley Maxted, Terence Kilburn, James Dyrenforth, Robert MacKenzie, Peter Madden, Gil Winfield.
- Credits:
- Special effects, Ruppel & Nordhoff, Peter Neilson ; music, Buxton Orr, conducted by Frederic Lewis ; editing, R.Q. McNaughton.
- Notes:
- Based on a story by Amelia Reynolds Long.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
- Liner notes by noted film scholar Bruce Kawin, inserted.
- Special features include: Audio commentary: A conversation with executive producer Richard Gordon and genre film writer Tom Weaver ; a collection of trailers from Godon films: Fiend without a face, The haunted strangler, Corridor's of blood, First man into space, and The atomic submarine ; rare still photographs and ephemera, with commentary ; vintage advertisements and lobby cards.
- ISBN:
- 1559409118
- OCLC:
- 46362501
- Publisher Number:
- 715515011327
- CC1564D Criterion Collection
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