USA, 1962
96m
35mm film, Technicolor, 1.66:1
mono (Westrex Recording System), English
An American horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg.
Plot Summary
A magistrate falls under an evil influence that leads him to commit murder.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Reginald Le Borg
© MCMLXXII [1962] Admiral Pictures, Inc.
Admiral Pictures, Inc. presents
Produced by: Robert E. Kent
Production Manager: Joseph Small
Written by: Robert E. Kent
Based on Stories by: Guy de Maupassant
Assistant Director: Al Westen
Script Supervisor: Jane Ficker
Director of Photography: Ellis W. Carter
Supervising Editor: Grant Whytock
Music by: Richard La Salle
Music Editor: Edna Bullock
Sound: Ralph Butler
Effects Editor: Al Bird
Costumes: Marjorie Corso
Makeup Artist: Ted Coodley
Hair Stylist: Carmen Dirigo
Special Effects: Norman Breedlove
Art Director: Daniel Haller
Set Decorator: Victor Gangelin
Property Master: Irving Sindler
Sculptor: Lowell Grant
Cast
Vincent Price (Simon Cordier)
Nancy Kovack (Odette)
Chris Warfield (Paul)
Elaine Devry (Jeanne)
Ian Wolfe (Pierre)
Stephen Roberts (Rennedon)
Lewis Martin (priest)
Mary Adams (Louise)
Edward Colmans (Andre)
Nelson Olmsted (Dr Borman)
Harvey Stephens (Girot)
Dick Wilson
Wayne Collier
Gloria Clark
Don Brodie
George Sawaya
Josepg Del Nostro Jr
Joseph Ruskin (The Horla)
Alternative Titles
Diario de un loco – Spain
L’Étrange histoire du juge Cordier – France
The Horla
To imerologio enos trellou – Greece
Egy orült naplója – Hungary
Links
Extracts included in
100 Years of Horror: Demons (1996)
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein 1967 Annual p.39
- The Daily Cinema no.8844 (27 November 1963) p.7 – review
- The Film Daily vol.122 no.44 (6 March 1963) p.7 – review
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.205 no.4 (6 March 1969) p.3 – credits, review
- Kine Weekly no.2930 (28 November 1963) p.16 – credits, synopsis, review
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.31 no.360 (January 1964) p.9 – credits, synopsis, review
- Motion Picture Herald vol.229 no.5 (6 March 1963) p.763 – review
- Variety 13 March 1963 – credits, synopsis, review
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.153
- The Films of Vincent Price by Iain F. McAsh pp.20; 43
- Merchant of Menace: The Life and Films of Vincent Price by Denis Meikle pp.177-179; 362
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.102 – credits
- Sixties Shockers by Mark Clark and Bryan Senn pp.151-152
- The Stop-motion Filmography by Neil Pettigrew pp.173-174
- Unsung Horrors by Eric McNaughton & Darrell Buxton (eds) pp.108-110 – illustrated review (by Pedro de Queiroz)
- Vincent Price: The Art of Fear by Denis Meikle pp.97-100; 224-225
- Vincent Price Unmasked by James Robert Parish and Steven Whitney pp.116; 217-218
- Women in the Horror Films of Vincent Price by Jonathan Malcolm Lampley p.191
