69-605: Albert David Hedison Jr. (May 20, 1927 – July 18, 2019) was an American film, television, and stage actor. He was known for his roles as the title character in The Fly (1958), Captain Lee Crane in the television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968), and CIA agent Felix Leiter in two James Bond films, Live and Let Die (1973) and Licence to Kill (1989). He
138-475: A compelling interest aside from its macabre effects". "A first rate science-fiction-horror melodrama", declared Harrison's Reports , adding, "the action grips one's attention from the opening to the closing scenes, and is filled with suspenseful, spine-chilling situations that will keep movie-goers on the edge of their seats". Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times called the film "frightening, which
207-704: A couple years there ... It's two years I'm not sorry for. The problem was, when I came back to the US, it was more difficult getting work then." Hedison guest starred on Journey to the Unknown ; Love, American Style ; ITV Sunday Night Theatre ; the BBC's Play of the Month ; The F.B.I. ; and The New Perry Mason . He could be seen in Kemek (1970), A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971), Crime Club (1973), The Cat Creature , and The Man in
276-479: A fan club created originally by Leslie Charteris for the fans of the series. The club fell under the control of honorary chairmen, Sir Roger Moore (prior to his death) and Ian Ogilvy (who played Templar in the 1970s revival series, Return of the Saint ). The club marks events such as the publication of books or other information on the series. The black-and-white episodes of The Saint were made in two production runs,
345-566: A great friend. The episode's plot prophetically involves Moore's Saint mistaken for 007 and Hedison as an FBI agent — roles they would play seven years later as 007 and Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die . He was one of many stars in the film The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). After turning down the role of Captain Crane in the film version of Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , Allen again offered
414-403: A happier ending by eliminating a suicide. Lippert tried to cast Michael Rennie and Rick Jason in the role of André Delambre, before settling on then mostly unknown David Hedison (billed as "Al Hedison" on-screen). Hedison's "Fly" costume featured a 20-pound (9.1 kg) fly's head, about which he said: "Trying to act in it was like trying to play the piano with boxing gloves on". Hedison
483-410: A happy family. André has been working on a matter-transporter device called the disintegrator-integrator. He initially tests it only on small, inanimate objects, such as a newspaper. Still, he then proceeds to living creatures, including the family's pet cat (which fails to reintegrate but can be heard meowing somewhere) and a guinea pig . After he is satisfied that these tests are succeeding, he builds
552-483: A major horror star. Price himself was positive about the film, saying, decades later, "I thought THE FLY was a wonderful film – entertaining and great fun". “The Fly, which I did back in Hollywood, was just plain ridiculous. There was one scene, which I told the director Kurt Neumann, was crazy. They had the figure of a man reduced to the size of a fly, and the fly talked. And they made the man say, ‘Help me, help me!’ in
621-410: A man-sized pair of chambers. One day, Hélène, worried because André has not come up from the basement lab for a couple of days, goes down to find André with a black cloth draped over his head and a strange deformity on his left hand. Communicating only with typed notes and knocking, André tells Hélène that he tried to transport himself, but that a fly was caught in the chamber with him, which resulted in
690-452: A masterpiece, stands in many ways above the level of B-movie science fiction common in the 1950s". Critic Steven H. Scheuer praised it as a "superior science-fiction thriller with a literate script for a change, plus good production effects and capable performances". The Fly was nominated for the 1959 Hugo Award for Best SF or Fantasy Movie at the 17th World Science Fiction Convention . American Film Institute Lists The success of
759-444: A motive, and begins acting strangely. In particular, she is obsessed with flies , including a supposedly white-headed fly. André's brother, François, lies and says he caught the white-headed fly. Thinking he knows the truth, Hélène asks François to bring the policeman in charge of the case, Inspector Charas, so that she can explain the circumstances of André's death to them both. In flashback , André, Hélène, and their son Philippe are
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#1733104204365828-688: A really wonderfully written scene," added Hedison. "Otherwise you're just doing a job, part of the ensemble. And in this case, I have lots of action scenes, but no one scene that is memorable ... Felix is a fairly one-dimensional character, you never get into any depth. You do what you can. There's not much to play. All you can do is perform it with a simple reality ... It was running around, bang bang, getting wet, screaming and yelling, and all kinds of fun, but not serious acting." Hedison toured with Barbara Anderson and Anita Gillette in Neil Simon 's Chapter Two in 1979 and 1980. He could be seen in
897-399: A request from the producers to provide an E-type . Unlike its contemporary rival, The Avengers , The Saint was shot entirely on film from the beginning, whereas the first three series of the other series (broadcast between 1961 and 1964) were videotaped, with minimal location shooting. All episodes of The Saint were syndicated abroad. The black-and-white series were first syndicated in
966-656: A role in the Broadway production of A Month in the Country (1956), directed by Michael Redgrave . It ran for 48 performances on Broadway. The Theatre World declared Hedison as one of the most promising theatre personalities of the 1955–56 season. After his role in A Month in the Country , Hedison signed a film contract with 20th Century Fox in May 1957. His first movie with them was the classic war film The Enemy Below (1957), which also starred Robert Mitchum . He followed that up with
1035-583: A tiny voice. Oh, gee!” —Cinematographer Karl Struss . Upon its initial release, The Fly received mixed reviews. Critic Ivan Butler called the film "the most ludicrous, and certainly one of the most revolting science-horror films ever perpetrated", and Carlos Clarens offered some praise for the effects, but concluded that the film "collapses under the weight of many... questions". A mixed review in The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The early sequences of this film have great mystery and tension, and
1104-548: A two-episode-per-weekday run at 7:00am, independently sequenced of the continued Saturday night airings. Neither includes the two-part episodes referenced in the previous paragraph. In the TV series, the Saint lives in London, though the exact address is never revealed (53 Grosvenor Mews is his stated address in series 2 episode 2) and he is seen travelling to locations across London, the UK, and around
1173-483: Is a British crime television series that aired in the United Kingdom on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It was based on the literary character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in the 1920s and featured in many novels over the years. In the television series, Templar was played by Roger Moore . Templar helps those whom conventional agencies are powerless or unwilling to protect, often using methods that skirt
1242-475: Is based on the 1957 short story of the same name by George Langelaan . The film tells the story of a scientist who is transformed into a grotesque human–fly hybrid after a common house fly enters unseen into a molecular transporter with which he is experimenting, resulting in his atoms being combined with those of the insect. The film was released in CinemaScope by 20th Century Fox , with color by Deluxe . It
1311-578: Is even keener than Teal to find Templar guilty, though Templar repeatedly helps him solve the case. Unlike Teal, Latignant did not appear in Charteris's novels. In all, Inspector Teal featured in 26 episodes and Colonel Latignant in six. The Saint began as a straightforward mystery series, but over the years adopted more secret agent and fantasy-style plots. It also made a well-publicised switch from black-and-white to colour production midway through its run. The early episodes are distinguished by Moore breaking
1380-481: Is married to actress and director Jodie Foster . He died on July 18, 2019, at his home in Los Angeles. The Fly (1958 film) The Fly is a 1958 American science fiction horror film and the first installment in The Fly film series . The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and stars David Hedison , Patricia Owens , Vincent Price , and Herbert Marshall . The screenplay by James Clavell
1449-494: Is naturally its primary purpose. It is also more skillful in concept and execution than the average science-fiction effort". Modern reviews have been more uniformly positive. The film holds a 95% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 42 reviews, with the consensus: "Deliciously funny to some and eerily presicient to others, The Fly walks a fine line between shlocky fun and unnerving nature parable". Cinefantastique 's Steve Biodrowski declared that "the film, though hardly
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#17331042043651518-570: Is running out, and while André can still think like a human, he smashes the equipment, burns his notes, and leads Hélène to the factory. When they arrive, he sets the hydraulic press, puts his head and arm under, and motions for Hélène to push the button. André's arm falls free as the press descends, and trying not to look, she raises the press, replaces the arm, and activates the machine a second time. Upon hearing this confession, Inspector Charas deems Hélène insane and guilty of murder. As they are about to haul her away, Philippe tells François he has seen
1587-427: The fourth wall and speaking to the audience in character at the start of every episode. With the switch to colour, this was replaced by simple narration. The pre-credit sequence usually ended with someone referring to (and/or addressing) the Saint by name – "Simon Templar"; at this point, an animated halo appeared above Templar's head as the Saint looked at the camera (or directly at the halo). The scene then switched to
1656-574: The Boss? , The Law & Harry McGraw , and Murder, She Wrote . He was in The Awakening of Cassie for Romance Theatre , Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues , and The Naked Face (1984) with Moore. Hedison appeared in the West Coast premiere of Forty Deuce in 1985. From 1991 to 1996, Hedison was a regular on the long-running soap opera Another World . He also starred in
1725-994: The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles on November 13. In 2008, Hedison performed Uncle Vanya at the Actors Studio West. He also participated in performances of The Cherry Orchard and I Never Sang for My Father in Los Angeles in 2009. He later appeared in The Marriage Play by Edward Albee . He was in Superman and the Secret Planet and Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk . He and his wife Bridget were married in London on June 29, 1968. Bridget Hedison died of breast cancer on February 22, 2016. They had two daughters, actor/director/photographer Alexandra Hedison and editor/producer Serena Hedison. Alexandra Hedison has appeared in L.A. Firefighters and The L Word and
1794-878: The New York City premiere of First Love with Lois Nettleton in 1999. He returned to the Cape Playhouse to appear in Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2002), and at Monmouth University 's Pollak Theatre, in Love Letters with Nancy Dussault in 2007. He had a role in The Young and the Restless and could be seen in The Reality Trap (2005). In 2006, he acted in The Scent of Jasmine at
1863-761: The Sock and Buskin Players at Brown University before moving to New York to study with Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio . He was billed as Al Hedison in his early film work until 1959 when he was cast in the role of Victor Sebastian in the short-lived espionage television series Five Fingers . NBC insisted that he change his name, so he proposed his middle name, which
1932-431: The UK and US, eventually airing in over 60 countries, and made a profit in excess of £350m for ITC . With almost 120 episodes, the programme is exceeded only by The Avengers as the most productive show of its genre produced in the UK. As with The Avengers , the colour episodes were originally broadcast in the UK in black and white before the advent of colour transmissions on ITV. Roger Moore had earlier tried to buy
2001-461: The UK, ITV4 has broadcast colour episodes, and Talking Pictures TV airing the black and white episodes. In the US, FamilyNet and RTV have aired both the black-and-white and colour episodes. MeTV has also broadcast the series. In March 2015, the CBS-owned Decades digital cable network aired a "Series Binge" marathon of the show as part of "Countdown to Decades", a soft-launch prelude to
2070-649: The US by NBC affiliate stations in 1967 and 1968, and 32 of the 47 colour episodes were broadcast by NBC from 1968 to 1969, and have since played in syndication in the US for many years after. Most series are available on DVD in North America. Two two-part episodes from series 6, "Vendetta for the Saint" and "The Fiction Makers", were made into feature films and distributed to theatres in Europe, and often show up on late-night television in America. They are also available on DVD. In
2139-610: The Wood . He was most proud of doing an adaptation of Summer and Smoke with Lee Remick . Hedison played Felix Leiter in Live and Let Die (1973), with his friend Roger Moore starring as the new James Bond . Bond scholars Pfeiffer and Worrall praised the friendship between Leiter and Bond for being depicted with "genuine chemistry" between the two. Sixteen years later, Hedison returned to play Leiter in Licence to Kill (1989), with Bond now being portrayed by Timothy Dalton . Hedison became
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2208-561: The colour episodes have been released in seven two-disc sets, as well as in one 14-disc "megaset". The two-part episodes are only in movie form. A&E Home Entertainment also released the original monochrome episodes on Region 1 DVD, entitled The Saint: The Early Episodes , in which A&E had remastered and restored all the black-and-white episodes of the series from the original film elements. On 26 May 2015 Timeless Media Group released The Saint: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for
2277-413: The colour ones in a 14-disc set. The colour set includes the theatrical versions of the two double-length stories, as well as the original 48-minute two-part versions. Also included are a 40-minute documentary and isolated music tracks. Prior to this, Carlton Video had released four separate discs, the first one with the first two episodes, and the rest with four episodes each. Also, a ten-disc set repackages
2346-488: The episode "Iris" (7 November 1963) onward. Teal's relationship with Templar was broadly similar to that depicted in the novels, but in the series, he is often depicted as bungling, rather than merely Charteris's characterisation of him as an officious, unimaginative policeman. When in France, Templar had a similar relationship with Colonel Latignant ( Arnold Diamond ). Latignant is depicted as being even less competent than Teal, and
2415-474: The episodes being screened. The three unscreened episodes plus "The House on Dragon's Rock", which in some regions was not broadcast because it was thought unsuitable for children, were then mixed in with series six for transmission. A&E Home Entertainment , under licence from Carlton International Media Limited , released all the episodes on DVD in Region 1 . They have released two sets of monochrome episodes:
2484-591: The extensive location shoot on the island of Malta for "Vendetta for the Saint". Look-alikes were used for location shoots where the Saint is seen in the distance entering a well-known building or driving past the camera at speed. Where it was not possible to do it in the studios, some scenes were shot in North London, such as the block of flats Embassy Lodge in Regents Park Road NW3, which is shown in 5-15 The Persistent Patriots. The Saint and its books have
2553-470: The film encouraged Lippert to hire Clavell to make his directorial debut with Five Gates to Hell (1959). The film spawned two sequels, Return of the Fly (1959) and Curse of the Fly (1965). A remake, also titled The Fly , was directed by David Cronenberg and released in 1986. A sequel, The Fly II , was released in 1989 without Cronenberg's involvement. The Saint (TV series) The Saint
2622-401: The first actor to reprise the role of Felix Leiter and is the only actor to play Leiter with two different James Bonds. Hedison thought he was asked back because "there was much more to do in the film than in the past, and they were afraid of using an unknown or someone they were not quite sure of." "I think in this kind of film, it won't lead to other work unless you do something stand-out with
2691-411: The first time. The 33-disc set features all 118 episodes of the series as well as bonus features. They subsequently released series one and two on DVD in a separate 10-disc collection on 13 October the same year. Series three and four were released on 19 January 2016. In Region 2, Network Distributing has released two multidisc sets, with all the monochrome episodes available in an 18-disc set, and all
2760-416: The first with three discs, the second with four. Each disc contains four complete, unedited, uncut original broadcast episodes, meaning only 28 of the monochrome episodes are available. Each episode has been completely restored from the original 35 mm film prints and digitally remastered in full colour, and was presented in its original UK broadcast presentation and their original US broadcast order. All of
2829-436: The first, of 39 episodes, was split into two separate series on transmission, and the second, of 32 episodes, again split into two series on transmission. Series five, the first to be produced in colour, consisted of a production run of 32 episodes. The second colour production run consisted of 15 episodes, and has a revamped theme tune, marking it out from the first batch of colour episodes. "The Fiction Makers" from series five
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2898-405: The fly trapped in a web in the back garden. François convinces the inspector to come and see for himself. The two men see the fly, with both André's head and arm, trapped on the web as Philippe told them. It screams, "Help me! Help me!" as a large brown spider advances on it. Just as the spider is about to devour the creature, Charas crushes them both with a rock . Knowing that nobody would believe
2967-417: The fly] would say 'Help me! Help me!' we would just scream with laughter. It was terrible. It took us about 20 takes to finally get it". Sources vary as to the budget, with one giving it as $ 350,000, another as $ 325,000, and others as high as $ 495,000. The shoot lasted 18 days in total. Lippert said the budget was $ 480,000. Photographic effects were handled by L. B. Abbott , with makeup by Ben Nye. It
3036-556: The law. Chief Inspector Claud Eustace Teal is his nominal nemesis who considers Templar a common criminal, but often grudgingly tolerates his actions for the greater good. NBC picked up the show as a summer replacement in its evening schedule in 1966 because of the strong performance in the United States of the first two series in first-run syndication. The programme, therefore, ended its run with both trans-Atlantic primetime scheduling and colour episodes. It also proved popular beyond
3105-568: The lead role in the horror film The Fly (1958) with Vincent Price as his brother. Hedison got the role after Rick Jason turned it down. The film was very successful at the box office. Hedison went to England to play the lead role in The Son of Robin Hood (1958). Hedison was cast in the lead of a TV series made by Fox for NBC, Five Fingers (1959). He was reluctant to make it, especially when NBC insisted he change his first name (Al) to David (which
3174-439: The mixing of their atoms. Now, he has the head and left arm of a fly, though he retains his human mind. Conversely, the fly has his miniature head and left arm. André needs Hélène to capture the fly so that he can reverse the process. After she, her son, and their housemaid exhaustively search for it, she finds it, but it slips out of a crack in the window. André's will begins to fade as the fly's instincts take over his brain. Time
3243-515: The movie North Sea Hijack (1980), which starred Roger Moore, and TV episodes of Charlie's Angels , Nero Wolfe , Hart to Hart , T. J. Hooker , Matt Houston , Amanda's , Dynasty , Fantasy Island , Partners in Crime , The Fall Guy , The Love Boat , Simon & Simon , Double Trouble , Finder of Lost Loves , Knight Rider , Crazy Like a Fox , The A-Team , Trapper John, M.D. , Hotel , The Colbys , Who's
3312-513: The network's official launch in May 2015. The marathon featured every episode of the series aired back to back. The marathon began on 30 March at 5 pm Eastern Time and ended on 3 April at 11 pm. The broadcast network This TV has been running three or four episodes in a block on Saturday evenings since April 2018, starting at either 11:00pm or midnight (depending on the running time of the movie scheduled to air ahead of it). Later in October, This TV added
3381-614: The previous four discs alongside six more, containing the first 39 monochrome episodes. In France, TF1 Vidéo has released five multidisc sets, containing all the 118 episodes, in French and in English. In Region 4, Umbrella Entertainment released the entire series in Australia, in five boxed sets of six discs each. These are in PAL format, but with no region code. The boxsets feature numerous extras including
3450-550: The production rights to the Saint books himself, and was delighted to be able to play the part. Moore eventually became co-owner of the show with Robert S. Baker when the show moved to colour and the production credit became Bamore Productions. Most of the wardrobe Moore wore in the series was his own. He was reportedly offered the role of James Bond at least twice during the run of the series, but he had to turn it down both times due to his television commitments. In one early episode of
3519-490: The same role to him in the television series of the same name , co-starring with Richard Basehart , which ran from 1964 to 1968. After Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea concluded, Hedison was offered the role of Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch , but turned it down, stating, "after four years of subs and monsters, who needs kids and dogs?" The role eventually went to Robert Reed . Hedison moved to London. "I liked London very much," he later said. "I just wanted to go and spend
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#17331042043653588-432: The screen... Otherwise, believe it or not, The Fly happens to be one of the better, more restrained entries of the "shock" school... Even with the laboratory absurdities, it holds an interesting philosophy about man's tampering with the unknown". Variety was also fairly positive: "One strong factor of the picture is its unusual believability. It is told, by Clavell and Neumann, as a mystery suspense story, so that it has
3657-620: The series (titled "Luella"), another character actually mistakes Templar for Bond. (Coincidentally this episode also features David Hedison who appeared alongside Moore in the Bond film Live and Let Die .) Moore was eventually in a position to accept the role as Bond in 1973 after filming ITC's The Persuaders! with Tony Curtis . Moore had a few recurring co-stars, especially Ivor Dean , who played Templar's nemesis, Inspector Teal . In three early episodes, Teal had been played by Campbell Singer , Norman Pitt, and Wensley Pithey ; Dean featured from
3726-547: The series progressed ("Queen's Ransom" was both the first colour episode and the first episode not to be based on a Charteris work). The novel Vendetta for the Saint , credited to Charteris but written by Harry Harrison , was one of the last Saint stories to be adapted. Some of the later scripts were novelised and published as part of the ongoing series of The Saint novels, such as The Fiction Makers and The People Importers . The first of these books, which gave cover credit to Charteris, but were actually written by others,
3795-409: The situation is ingeniously built up. But the film soon becomes as nauseating as its bare outline suggests; even the moments which in healthier pictures might provoke a laugh through sheer absurdity offer little relief". The New York Times critic Howard Thompson was more positive, writing: "It does indeed contain, briefly, two of the most sickening sights one casual swatter-wielder ever beheld on
3864-441: The title card, which featured a haloed stick figure. The stick figure sometimes appeared in episodes to represent the Saint. Some episodes, such as "Iris", broke away from the formula and had Templar address the audience for the entire pre-credit sequence and referring to himself by name, setting up the story that followed. Many episodes were based upon Charteris's stories, although a higher percentage of original scripts were used as
3933-409: The truth, François and Charas decide to declare André's death a suicide so that Hélène is not convicted of murder. In the end, Hélène, François, and Philippe resume their daily lives. Sometime later, Philippe and Hélène are playing croquet in the yard. François arrives to take his nephew to the zoo. In reply to his nephew's query about his father's death, François tells Philippe, "He was searching for
4002-525: The truth. He almost found a great truth, but for one instant, he was careless. The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world and the most dangerous". The film closes with Hélène escorting her son and François out of the yard. Producer-director Kurt Neumann discovered the short story by George Langelaan in Playboy magazine. He showed it to Robert L. Lippert , head of 20th Century Fox 's subsidiary B-movie studio, Regal Pictures. The film
4071-462: The world. The entire series was shot at Associated British Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire , with very few scenes shot on location elsewhere. This was achieved by making extensive use of the sets at Elstree, early blue-screen technology to simulate different locations in the background, painted or projected backdrops, and revolving painted backdrops for moving scenes. A few exceptions exist, such as
4140-455: Was The Saint on TV , and the series of novelisations continued for several years after the television programme had ended. Templar's car, when it appeared, was a white Volvo P1800 with the number plate ST1. This model Volvo is still often referred to as "the Saint's car", with miniature versions made by Corgi which have proved popular. Volvo supplied their recently introduced car in 1962 for its promotional value, after Jaguar had rejected
4209-430: Was a commercial success, grossing $ 3 million at the domestic box office against a budget less than $ 500,000, and becoming one of the biggest hits of the year for Fox studios. It earned $ 1.7 million in theatrical rentals. Lippert claimed it earned $ 4 million. The film's financial success had the side effect of boosting co-star Vincent Price (whose previous filmography featured only scattered forays into genre film) into
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#17331042043654278-710: Was accepted; he was billed as David Hedison from then on. He acted at Newport Casino Theatre. In 1951, he won a Barter Theatre Award for most promising young actor, entitling him to work at a theatre in Virginia. He did radio in North Carolina and worked on stage in Pittsburgh. His work on the New York stage included an appearance in Much Ado About Nothing (1952). He was studying with Uta Hagen who recommended him for
4347-479: Was born in Providence, Rhode Island , to Albert David Hedison (Heditsian) Sr. and Rose Boghosian, both of whom were Armenian . Hedison decided he wanted to be an actor after he saw Tyrone Power in the film Blood and Sand . Hedison enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1945 during World War II , but the war ended before he completed basic training. He served 18 months before his discharge. He began his acting career with
4416-537: Was edited into a two-parter using the revamped theme for inclusion in series six, as was "Vendetta for the Saint". However, during transmission of series five, transmission of the episodes caught up with production, meaning repeats of some of the black-and-white episodes had to be slotted into the schedule to slow the broadcast of new episodes (this had little impact on viewers, as the colour episodes were being broadcast in black and white anyway). This series started transmission halfway through production, leading to only 26 of
4485-427: Was followed by two black-and-white sequels, Return of the Fly (1959) and Curse of the Fly (1965). A remake directed by David Cronenberg was released in 1986. It was released in 1958 as a double feature with Space Master X-7 . In Montreal , Quebec , scientist André Delambre is found dead with his head and arm crushed in a hydraulic press . His wife Hélène confesses to the crime but refuses to provide
4554-605: Was his middle name). The series lasted only one season. Hedison had the lead role in an adventure film The Lost World (1960), directed by Irwin Allen . Hedison guest starred on some Fox shows, Hong Kong and Bus Stop . He co-starred with Tom Tryon in Marines, Let's Go (1961). Hedison worked regularly on television, guest starring in Perry Mason , Wonder Woman and The Farmer's Daughter . He co-starred in an episode of The Saint , starring Roger Moore who became
4623-419: Was never happy with the makeup, but makeup artist Ben Nye remained very positive about his work, writing years later that despite doing many subsequent science-fiction films, "I never did anything as sophisticated or original as The Fly ". Years later, Vincent Price recalled the cast finding some levity during the filming: "We were playing this kind of philosophical scene, and every time that little voice [of
4692-477: Was photographed in 20th Century Fox's trademarked CinemaScope with color by Deluxe. A $ 28,000 laboratory set was constructed from army surplus equipment. The Fly was released in July 1958 by 20th Century Fox. Producer-director Kurt Neumann died only a few weeks after its premiere, never realizing he had made the biggest hit of his career. One source claims it was on a double bill with Space Master X-7 . The film
4761-565: Was to be made by Lippert's outfit, but was released as an "official" Fox film, not under the less-prestigious Regal banner. Lippert hired James Clavell to adapt Langelaan's story on the strength of a previous sci-fi spec script at RKO, which had never been produced. It became Clavell's first filmed screenplay. As Harry Spalding recalled, the script was "the best first draft I ever saw, it needed very little work". The adaptation remained largely faithful to Langelaan's short story, apart from moving its setting from France to Canada, and crafting
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