Spirits Of The Dead ( Histoires extraordinaires ) ( Tales of Mystery and Imagination )

Spirits Of The Dead (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Histoires extraordinaires
Alternate Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
117 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1968 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Federico Fellini (segment "Toby Dammit")
Louis Malle (segment "William Wilson")
Roger Vadim (segment "Metzengerstein")

Written By:
Edgar Allan Poe (story Metzengerstein) (segment "Metzenger
Roger Vadim (adaptation) (segment "Metzengerstein") &
Pascal Cousin (adaptation) (segment "Metzengerstein")
Edgar Allan Poe (story William Wilson) (segment "William W
Louis Malle (adaptation) (segment "William Wilson") &
Clement Biddle Wood '
Daniel Boulanger (dialogue) (segment "William Wilson")
Edgar Allan Poe (story Ne pariez jamais votre tête avec le
Federico Fellini (adaptation) (segment "Toby Dammit") &
Bernardino Zapponi

Actors:
Brigitte Bardot ..... Giuseppina (segment "William Wilson")
Alain Delon ..... William Wilson (segment "William Wilson")
Jane Fonda ..... Contessa Frederica (segment "Metzengerstein")
Terence Stamp ..... Toby Dammit (segment "Toby Dammit")
James Robertson Justice ..... Countess' Advisor (segment "Metzengerstein")
Salvo Randone ..... Priest (segment "Toby Dammit")
Françoise Prévost ..... Friend of Countess (segment "Metzengerstein") (as Franc
Peter Fonda ..... Baron Wilhelm (segment "Metzengerstein")
Katia Christine ..... Young Girl (segment "William Wilson") (as Katia Christina
Georges Douking ..... Du Lissier (segment "Metzengerstein")
Philippe Lemaire ..... Philippe (segment "Metzengerstein")

Synopsis:

Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: 'Toby Dammit' features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. 'Metzengerstein' features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who, it turns out is really her dead lover. 'William Wilson' tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.

Metzengerstein: the bored and corrupt medieval countess Frederica spends her futile life in orgies and cruelties. When she moves with her friends to one of her castles nearby the lands of her poor cousin Baron Wilhelm, she desires him but is not corresponded. When one of her minions burns the stable, Wilhelm dies trying to rescues his stallion and Federica is haunted by her lost cousin. 'William Wilson': the sadistic and cruel soldier of the Austrian army William Wilson confesses to a priest the cruelties he committed along his sinful life and the participation of his double also called William Wilson in specific moments of his dreadful life. 'Toby Dammit': the cynical alcoholic and decadent English actor Toby Dammit travels to Rome to make a Catholic Western, but only interested in receiving the Ferrari promised by the production.

The French Histoires Extraordinaires is an 'omnibus' film in the traditon of the English Somerset Maugham anthologies and Hollywood's Tales of Manhattan and Flesh and Fantasy. The three stories dramatized herein are based on the works Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas De Quincey. The Poe stories utilized are 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Cask of Amontillado.' The DeQuincey yarns concern a killer on the loose in a girl's school and a murderer who is frightened into confessing. Best of the batch is 'Cask,' with bravura performances by Jules Berry and Fernand Ledoux. Unifying the four stories is a wraparound story concerning a veteran gendarme relating his most difficult cases to a group of young recruits.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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