The flesh and the fiends / Independent-International Pictures Corp. presents ; a Hemisphere Entertainment, Inc. release ; Regal Films release ; screenplay by John Gilling and Leon Griffiths ; produced by Robert S. Baker & Monty Berman ; directed by John Gilling.
Edition:
Widescreen special edition.
Publisher:
Image Entertaiment,
Copyright Date:
2001
Description:
1 videodisc (189 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasance, June Laverick, Dermot Walsh, Renee Houston, George Rose, Billie Whitelaw, John Cairney, Melvyn Hayes Title from title frame. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1960. Presented in its 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratio. Enhanced for 16:9 TVs. "This special Double Feature DVD presents the original U.K. cut of "The Flesh and the Fiends" in a brand-new widescreen transfer made directly from the film's camera negative. Also included is a widescreen edition of the fabled "Continental version" of the film with added scenes of nudity and violence shot for the more permissive European market"--Container. Special features: New widescreen transfers of both the British and the "Continental" versions of the film ; Theatrical trailer for "The Fiendish Ghouls", the shortened U.S. re-release version of the film ; alternate title sequence from "Mania", the first U.S. version of the film ; director & cast filmographies ; photo & poster gallery ; liner notes by genre writer Jonathan Sothcott.
Summary:
Two Irish immigrants begin murdering poor people to be able to continue selling bodies to an eminent surgeon who wants them to make medical progress.
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