Las crueles (1969)

Country of Origin: Spain
Year of Production: 1969
Running Times: 95 mins (Spanish cut version)     108 mins
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Eastmancolor
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Films Montana S.A. (Madrid)/Marstan Productions
Producers: Sidney Pink, Stanley Abrams
Production Supervisor: Ricardo Merino
Production Manager: José López Moreno
Production Co-Ordinator: Carlos Durán

SCRIPT
Screenplay: Vicente Aranda, Antonio Rabinad

DIRECTION
Directed by: Vicente Aranda
Assistant Director: Antonio Arias

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Juan Amorós
Camera: Fernando Arribas

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Maricel Bautista, Bautista Treig

MUSIC
Music: Marco Rossi

SOUND
Sound Editor: Jorge Sangenís

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Adolfo Ponte

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Antonio Ballester

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Andrés Vallvé

LOCATIONS
locations: Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain; Estartit, Girona, Cataluña, Spain; Sitges, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

CAST
José María Blanco (the writer)
Capucine (Lucia Fonte)
Teresa Gimpera (editor's wife)
Carlos Estrada (editor)
Alicia Tomás (the secretary)
Judy Matheson (Esther)
Luis Ciges (functionary)
Joaquín Vilar (child)
Santiago Satorre (child)
Víctor Israel (porter)
Miguel Muniesa (postman)
Luis Induni (commissioner of police)
Eduardo Doménech (chauffeur)
Manuel Bronchud
Francisco Jarque
Ignacio Melecilla
André Argaud
Carlos Miguel Solá
Joaquín Navales

AVAILABILITY

USA
Rating: R

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Spain
Theatrical Distributors: PROCINES

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Wheeler Film Company
Video Distributors: Something Weird Video

TIMELINE

1969
August
25: Spain - theatrical release

1973
January
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

El cadáver exquisite - alternative title
The Cruel Ones - US title
The Cruel Women
The Exquisite Cadaver - US title
The Exquisite Corpse - US title

LINKS

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Twisted Sex Vol. 18 (1998)

KEYWORDS

lesbianism, severed hands, severed heads

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009