The Abominable Dr. Phibes: Midnite Movies
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UPC: 027616-858511 (DVD)
Region Coding: Region 1
Production Year: 1971
Rating: PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned)
Some Horror Violence/Gore
Running Time: 95 min.
DVD Release: 2/20/2001
Case Type: Keep Case
Video Formats: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Disc Formats: Single Sided, Single Layered
SRP: $14.95
Meet Doctor Phibes: a one-time concert musician who's now an all-time crazed murderer. In this clever, crypt-kicking classic, horrormeister Vincent Price plays a diabolical doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness and surgical wit. Watch Dr. Phibes live up to his promise: "Nine killed her, nine shall die, nine eternities in doom!"

After a team of surgeons botch his beloved wife's surgery, leaving her for dead, the emotionally distraught Dr. Phibes creatively concocts a fatal prescription for revenge. Using the Good Book as his guide, Phibes unleashes a score of old testament atrocities – from a plague of locusts to an attack of rats – on his enemies that climax in what may be one of "the eeriest endings on screen record" (Syracuse Herald-Journal)!

Genres
Horror



Studios
American International Pictures
F.P. Productions
Media Companies: MGM Home Entertainment
Features
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Closed Captioned
Subtitles
French
Spanish
Audio Tracks
English Dolby Digital Mono
French Dolby Digital Mono
Spanish Dolby Digital Mono
Cast

The Protagonists
Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes
Joseph Cotten as Dr. Vesalius



The Girl
Virginia North as Vulnavia



The Victims
Terry-Thomas as Dr. Longstreet
Sean Bury as Lem
Susan Travers as Nurse Allen
David Hutcheson as Dr. Hedgepath
Edward Burnham as Dr. Dunwoody
Alex Scott as Dr. Hargreaves
Peter Gilmore as Dr. Kitaj
Maurice Kaufmann as Dr. Whitcombe



The Law
Peter Jeffrey as Trout
Derek Godfrey as Crow
Norman Jones as Schenley
John Cater as Waverley
Alan Zipson as 1st Police Official
Dallas Adams as 2nd Police Official
James Grout as Sergeant
Alister Williamson as 1st Policeman
Thomas Heathcote as 2nd Policeman
Ian Marter as 3rd Policeman
Julian Grant as 4th Policeman



Interested Parties
Hugh Griffith as Rabbi
Aubrey Woods as Goldsmith
John Laurie as Darrow
Barbara Keogh as Mrs. Frawley
Charles Farrell as Chauffeur
John Franklyn as Graveyard Attendant
Walter Horsbrugh as Butler


Caroline Munro as Victoria Phibes (uncredited)
Crew
Direction:
Robert Fuest: Director
Writing:
James Whiton: Writer
William Goldstein: Writer
Production:
Samuel Z. Arkoff: Executive Producer
James H. Nicholson: Executive Producer
Louis M. Heyward: Producer
Ronald S. Dunas: Producer
Cinematography:
Norman Warwick: Director of Photography
Film Editing:
Tristam Cones: Film Editor
Music:
Basil Kirchin: Composer
Jack Nathan: Composer
Sound:
Dennis Whitlock: Sound
Peter Lennard: Sound Editor
Art:
Trevor Crole-Rees: Make-up Artist
Elsa Fennell: Costume Designer
George Blackwell: Visual Effects