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Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Country
of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1972
Running Times: 89 mins
Format: DeLuxe 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: AIP
Executive Producer: James H. Nicholson
Producers: Samuel Z. Arkoff, Louis M. Heyward
Production Manager: Richard Dalton
SCRIPT
Script: Robert Fuest, Robert Blees
DIRECTION
Director: Robert Fuest
Assistant Director: Jake Wright
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Alex Thomson
Camera Operator: Colin Corby
Focus Puller: John Golding
Supervising Electrician: Roy Bond
Lab: DeLuxe
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Tristam Cones
MUSIC
Music: John Gale
SOUND
Recording Director: A.W. Lumkin
Sound Recordists: Les Hammond, Dennis Whitlock
Dubbing Editor: Peter Lennard
Sound Assistant: Fred Tomlin
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Trevor Crole-Rees
Hair: Bernadette Ibbetson
Costume Supervisor: Ivy Baker Jones
Vulnavia's Costumes: Brian Cox
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Brian Eatwell
Assistant Art Director: Peter Withers
Property Master: Rex Hobbs
Construction Manager: Harry Phipps
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Jane Buck
CASTING
Casting: Sally Nicholl
CAST
Vincent Price
(Dr Anton Phibes)
Robert Quarry (Darius Biederbeck)
Valli Kemp (Vulnavia)
Hugh Griffith (Harry Ambrose)
John Thaw (Shavers)
Keith Buckley (Stewart)
Lewis Fiander (Baker)
Gerald Sim (Hackett)
Milton Reid (manservant)
Peter Jeffrey (Trout)
John Cater (Waverley)
Peter Cushing (Captain)
Beryl Reid (Miss Ambrose)
Terry-Thomas (Lombardo)
Fiona Lewis (Diana)
Caroline Munro (Victoria
Phibes - uncredited)
Gary Owens (narrator - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Dr Phibes sets off for
Egypt with his dead wife Victoria and the ever loyal
Vulnavia at his side in search of a fabled fountain of
life which might restore his beloved Victoria to life.
But to do so he has to outsmart arch rival Biederbeck and
his sidekick Diana who are also in country searching for
the very same source of life.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Despite beautiful
settings and some sparkling one-liners, Dr Phibes
Rises Again is a disappointment. The knowing
high camp of the first film had been rather endearing, if
a little forced, but here everyone tries just that little
bit too hard, resulting in a film that strains so hard to
be funny that the audience is merely left feeling rather
embarrassed. There are few things less funny than
watching a talented cast who know that they're in
something which frankly isn't working. Realising that the
time had come to stop flogging this particular dead
horse, the series came to an end here, though for some
time John Landis was announcing a belated and never-made
third entry, Phibes Resurrectus.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributors: AIP; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributing Corporation; Orion Pictures Company
Video Distributors: MGM; Orion Home Video; Vestron Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Image (ID 3077 OR)
DVD Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment (Midnite Movies
1001543) CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
UK
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: PG; PG-13 (re-rating)
West Germany
Rating: 16
AWARDS
1974
Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Medalla Sitges en Oro de Ley Best Director (Robert Fuest)
- winner
TIMELINE
1974
February
22: Finland - theatrical release
2000
March
10: USA - theatrical re-release
2001
February
20: USA - DVD release (MGM Home Entertainment (Midnite
Movies 1001543))
POSTER TAGS
Flesh crawls! Blood curdles! Phibes lives!
They Haven't Built The COFFIN That Can
Hold HIM!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Dr Phibes powraca -
Polish title
Frustrazione - Italian title
Im Bund mit dem Teufel - German title
Retorno del doctor Phibes - Spanish
title
Le retour de l'abominable Dr Phibes -
French title
Die Rückkehr des Dr Phibes - German
title
Vampyyri nousee haudastaan - Finnish
title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
The Abominable
Dr Phibes (1971)
SEE ALSO
House of Wax (1953)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
The Dark
Side September 1995 p.20 (UK)
credits, review KEYWORDS
birds; deserts;
disfigurement; egypt; organs; planetary alignments;
safecrackers; scorpions; sequels; snakes; tombs
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