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Espiritismo (1961)
Country of Origin:
Mexico
Year of Production: 1961
Running Times: 85 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Cinematográfica Calderón S.A
Producer: William Calderon Stell (real name: Guillermo Calderón)
English Language Version Producer: K. Gordon Murray
Production Chief: José Alcalde Gámiz
Assistant Production Manager: Roberto G. Rivera
SCRIPT
Script: Raphael Garcia Travesi
Story: Raphael Garcia Travesi, William Calderon Stell (real name:
Guillermo Calderón)
Short Story: The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs (uncredited)
DIRECTION
Director: Benito Alazraki
English Language Version Director: Manuel San Fernando
Assistant Director: Jaime L. Contreras (uncredited)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Henry Wallace (real name: Enrique Wallace)
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Jorge Bustos
MUSIC
Music: Antonio Díaz Conde
Musical Direction: Gustav C. Carion
SOUND
Sound Director: James L. Fields
Sound Editor: José Li-Ho
English Language Version Produced At: Soundlab Inc, Coral Gables,
Florida
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Felisa Ladrón de Guevara
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Luis Enrique Gordillo DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: José Rodríguez Granada
Set Decorator: Ernesto Carrasco
MISCELLANEOUS
Union: STPC
LOCATIONS
Studio: Churubusco-Azteca, Mexico CAST
Joseph L. Jiminez (real name: José Luis Jiménez) (Luis
Fernández / Louis Howard)
Nora Veryán (María / Mary Howard)
Beatriz Aguirre (Sister Estercita / Stella Jean)
Alice Caro (real name: Alicia Caro) (Carmen / Amy)
Carmelita González (Alicia / Mrs Alice Lewis)
Anthony Bravo (real name: Antonio Bravo) (Carlos Paz y Fuentes / Dr
Charles Pierpoint)
George Mondragon (real name: Jorge Mondragón) (Guillermo /
Harry)
August Benedico (real name: Augusto Benedico) (priest - scenes deleted)
William Zetina (real name: Guillermo Zetina) (Oromuz-Animán)
George Russek (real name: Jorge Russek) (Eduardo Aguirre / Larry Gray)
Mary Eugenia Saint Martin (real name: María Eugenia San Martín)
(Aurora)
René Cardona
Jr (Rodolfo / Rudolph)
Miguel Manzano
Rita Macedo
Diana Ochoa (Elvira)
Julissa Macedo (Rosario / Rosalie)
Manuel Dondé, Victorio Blanco (spiritualists)
PLOT SUMMARY
Granted three wishes at a seance by the Devil
himself, a grieving mother asks for her late son to be restored to
her with horrific and disatrous consequences.
CAPSULE REVIEW
A cheap and turgidly plotted adaptation of the W.W. Jacobs story
that proves to be a genuine ordeal to sit through. No-one involved
in its production seem to have had any clue as to how to make a film
even remotely entertaining. Dull, dull, dull...
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Trans-International Films Inc; Young America
Productions
Video Distributors: Sinister Cinema; Something Weird Video
DVD Distributor: Beverly Wilshire Filmworks (BWFD 8819-9)
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Spiritism - US title
REFERENCES
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS boxes; the devil; hands; mediums; monkeys paw; return from the dead;
satanism; seances; short story into film; spiritualism; spiritualists;
wishes
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