The Fly

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The Fly
Andre Delambre is a devoted husband, a loving father and a brilliant scientist. When his dead body is found in his laboratory with his arm and head having been crushed by a hydraulic press, and his wife Helene admitting to having killed him, his brother slowly uncovers the truth - that an experiment with Andre's new teleportation device has gone horribly wrong.

"I felt really good about it. I thought my best work was all the times I was under that cloth. In those scenes, I was really feeling something. I felt the pain of the man, what he was going through. I went through all kinds of hysteria in my body. Somehow the body language came out." - David Hedison

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Al Hedison - Andre Delambre
Patricia Owens - Helene Delambre
Vincent Price - François Delambre

Directed by Kurt Neumann
Written by James Clavell
Based on a short story by George Langelaan

Theatrical Release
Twentieth Century Fox
Date: July 1958

VHS Release
Twentieth Century Fox
Date: September 7, 1999

DVD Release
Twentieth Century Fox
Date: March 4, 2003

Films in Review

The Fly was the biggest box office hit of director Kurt Neumann but he would never know. Neumann died a month after the premiere - a week before it was released nationally.

People ask if I did all that stuff in the mask. Of course I did. Do you think a stunt man could move like that and do things that I did? [The mask] took maybe an hour and a half to apply [made from a plaster cast of David's face] and then between takes I would just sit and wait. I was very patient that way. It gave me a chance to prepare and get ready for the next scene. Patricia -- a very sweet girl, I loved her -- She'd come up to me and say, "Can I get you anything? Is there anything you want?"

	"That whole business of scribbling on the blackboard to tell my wife that I love her - that wasn't a direction, but I figured that was the way he would have done it. I think the director wanted me to write "Help me" or "Kill the Fly." But this guy is going through a struggle, the fly is taking over his brain. He wants to be killed."
	"In one scene toward the end, I had to tear the lab apart with an axe -- I swung it all over the place. And afterwards, one of the [crew] said "Oh, [Al!] You swung once, and I thought you were going to go right into your leg!" I had just missed because I really couldn't see anything."