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Madhouse (1974)
 Country
of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1974
Running Times: 92 mins
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: mono
CREDITS
 PRODUCTION
Production Companies: AIP / Amicus Productions
Executive Producer: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Producer: Max J.
Rosenberg, Milton
Subotsky
Associate Producer: John Dark
Production Manager: Pat Green
SCRIPT
Script: Ken Levison, Greg Morrison
Novel: Devilday by Angus Hall
DIRECTION
Director: Jim Clark
Assistant Director: Allan James
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ray Parslow
Camera Operator: Ken Coles
Lab: Rank Film Labs
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Clive Smith
MUSIC
Music: Douglas Gamley
Song Performed By: Gordon Clyde
SOUND
Sound Recordists: Danny Daniel, Gerry Humphreys
Sound Editor: Peter Horrocks
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Chief Make Up: George Blackler
Chief Hair: Helen lennox
Wardrobe Mistress: Dulcie Midwinter
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Kerss and Spencer
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Tony Curtis
Assistant Art Director: John Sidall
Construction Manager: Bill Waldron
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Lorna Selwyn
LOCATIONS
Studio: Twickenham Studios
CASTING
Casting Director: Rose Tobias Shaw
CAST
Vincent Price
(Paul Toombes)
Peter Cushing
(Herbert Flay)
Robert Quarry (Quayle)
Adrienne Corri (Faye)
Linda Hayden (Elizabeth
Peters)
Natasha Pyne (Julia)
Barry Dennen (Blount)
Catherine Willmer (Louise)
Ellis Dayle (Alfred)
Jenny Lee Wright (Carol)
John Garrie (Harper)
Ian Thompson (Bradshaw)
Julie Crosthwaite (Ellen)
Peter Halliday (psychiatrist)
Michael Parkinson (TV interviewer)
George Blackler (make-up artist (uncredited))
Robert Cawdron (CID Inspector (uncredited))
Earl Rhodes (boy fishing (uncredited))
Christopher Sandford (reporter (uncredited))
PLOT SUMMARY
Paul Toombes, a popular horror film actor best known as the title character
in the Doctor Death series, retired after the brutal murder of his fiancée.
Many years later, Toombes is planning a comeback movie, only to find
that someone is stalking the production...
CAPSULE REVIEW
This should have been something very special - Price and Cushing together
at last, Price in his last film for AIP, with an interesting supporting
cast and a solid basic idea. But it just doesn't work - Clark's direction
is dull and uninspired, the dialogue is often risible and twist ending
is tedious and obvious. Price and Cushing make it worth a look, but
don't expect too much even from them.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: AIP
Video Distributors: HBO Video
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
USA
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1979
December
4: UK - television broadcast (on ITV (Thames Television))
1987
December
23: UK - television broadcast (on ITV (Thames Television))
POSTER TAGS
If Stark Terror Were Ecstasy... living here would be sheer
bliss!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Deathday
The Madhouse of Dr Fear
The Revenge of Dr Death
LINKS
INCLUDES FOOTAGE FROM
House of Usher (1960)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
The Raven (1963)
Tales of Terror (1962)
SEE ALSO
House of Wax (1953)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
CinemaTV Today no.10032 (19 May 1973)
p.13 (UK)
credits
CinemaTV Today no.10109 (16 November
1974) p.14 (UK)
review
Flesh and Blood no.3 (1994) p.50 (UK)
illustrated credits, review
Hollywood Reporter vol.230 no.37 (27
March 1974) p.3 (USA)
credits, review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.41 no.491 (December
1974) p.278 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Shivers no.23 (November 1995) pp.4-7
(UK)
illustrated article (Two Titans and a Tank of Spiders by Jonathan
Rigby)
Variety 27 March p.24 (USA)
credits, review
Video Watchdog no.8 p.17 (USA)
review
BOOKS
The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide by
Stephen Jones p.82
credits, review
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by
Walt Lee p.401
credits
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
actors, book into film, decapitations, film makers, mental illness,
paranoia
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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