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Gritos en la noche (1962)
Country of Origin: Spain / France
Year of Production: 1962
Running Times: 90 min
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Hispamer Films P.C. / Leo Lax Production / Ydex
Eurociné
Producers: Leo Lax (real name: Marius Lesoeur), Serge Newman
Production Managers: Gerardo Mendiburu, Angel Rosson
SCRIPT
Script: Jesus Franco
Novel: David Khune (real name: Jesus
Franco)
DIRECTION
Director: Jesus Franco
Assistant Director: Alfredo Hurtado
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Godofredo Pacheco
Assistant Director of Photography: Javier Perez Zofio
Camera: Maria del Carmen Martinez Roman
Labs: Laboratoires CTM, Gennevilliers, France; Madrid Film S.A., Madrid,
Spain
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Alfonso Santacana
MUSIC
Music: José Pagán, Antonio Ramírez Ángel
Additional Music: Jesus
Franco
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Antonio Simont
LOCATIONS
Locations: Madrid, Spain; Ballesteros Studios, Spain
CAST
Howard Vernon (Dr Orloff)
Sam Martin (real name: Conrado San Martín) (Inspector Tanner)
Diana Lorys (Wanda Bronsky)
Perla Cristal (Arne)
Mary Silvers (real name: María Silva) (Dany)
Richard Valley (real name: Ricardo Valle) (Morpho)
Mara Laso (Irma Gold)
Venancio Muro (Jean Rousseau)
Félix Dafauce (Inspector)
Faustino Cornejo
Manuel Vázquez (Klemp)
Juan Antonio Riquelme
Fernando C. Montes (Maurice)
Elena María Tejeiro
Javier de Rivera
Ángel Calero
Fernando Sala
Laly Vicent
José Carlos Arévalo
Rafael Ibáñez
Carmen Porcel
Rafael Hernández
Marisa Paredes
Juan García Tiendra
Jesus Franco (piano
player)
PLOT SUMMARY
Former prison doctor Dr Orloff is trying to repair the terrible scarring
on his daughter's face and has taken to sending his deformed assistant
Morpho out to abduct beautiful young women from nightclubs. But a young
police office and his ballerina girlfriend are about to spring a trap
that could put an end to Orloff's practices.
CAPSULE REVIEW
Franco's first genre film remains one of his best, with impressively
atmospheric camerawork and an unsettling, discordant score. The story
steals shamelessly from Edgar Wallace's Dead Eyes of London
and whole scenes are lifted from George Franju's Les yeux sans
visage (1959). It shows what Franco was really capable of before
his conveyor-belt approach to film production took over.
AVAILABILITY
France
Video Distributor: Sunset Video
Italy
Video Distributor: Pulp
Netherlands
Video Distributor: Redemption
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Delta
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Grand National
Video Distributor: Redemption (RETN030); Arrow Film Distributors (FC112)
DVD Distributor: Arrow Film Distributors (FCD112)
USA
Theatrical Distributors: Sigma III Corp; World Entertainment Corp
Video Distributors: Something Weird Video; Tapeworm Video Distributors
Inc; Image
DVD Distributor: Image
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: X; 15 (cut by 37 secs in 1994)
TIMELINE
1962
May
14: Spain – theatrical release
1994
April
21: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC
25: UK - video release (Redemption (RETN030))
2002
April
22: UK - video release (Arrow Film Distributors (FC112)); DVD
release (Arrow Film Distributors (FCD112))
July
29: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC
POSTER TAGS
You'll get an insight into the face of terror!
His Shrine Was the Face of Terror!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
The Awful Dr Orloff - US title
Cries in the Night
The Demon Doctor - UK title
The Diabolical Dr Satan
Il diabolico dottore Satana - Italian title
L'horrible Docteur Orlof - French title
Der Schreckliche Dr Orloff - West German title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
El enigma del ataúd
(1969)
Miss Muerte (1966)
Los
ojos siniestros del doctor Orloff (1973)
Orloff et
l'homme invisible (1971)
El secreto del
Dr Orloff (1964)
El siniestro
doctor Orloff (1984)
Les yeux sans visage
(1959)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Revenge in the House of Usher (1982)
Shiver and Shudder Show (2001)
REMAKE
Cries in the Night
(2003)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Absurd no.8 (UK)
credits, review
The Dark Side April 1993 pp.24-25 (UK)
credits, review
Is It Uncut? No.3 p.31 (UK)
review
Necronomicon no.6 pp.49-50 (UK)
review
Samhain no.5 p.18 (UK)
Illustrated article (by Kevin Lyons)
Video Watchdog no.1 pp.20, 35 (USA)
review; credits
Video Watchdog no.19 pp.10-11 (USA)
Review
BOOKS
Obsession: The Films of Jesus Franco pp.41-42
Credits, synopsis, review
KEYWORDS
ballerinas, book into film, medical, plastic surgery, police, scalpel,
surgical horror
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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