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Miss Muerte (1966)
Country of Origin: Spain
/ France
Year of Production: 1966
Running Times: 86 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Spéva Films S.A. / Ciné-Alliance
/ Hesperia Films S.A.
Producers: Michel Safra, Serge Silberman
Production Manager: Henri Baum
SCRIPT
Script: David Kuhne (real name:
Jesus Franco)
Adaptation / Dialogue: Jean-Claude Carrière
DIRECTION
Director: Jesus
Franco
Assistant Director: Robert Demollière
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Alejandro Ulloa
Camera: Clemente Manzano
Lab: Franay L.T.C. Saint-Cloud
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Supervising Editors: Jean Feyte, Marie-Louise Barberot
Assistant Editors: Arlette Lalande, Monique Teisseire
MUSIC
Music: Daniel White
Music Publishers: Eco-Music
SOUND
Sound Engineer: Louis Hochet
Dubbing: Ste Linguasynchrone
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Chief Make Up: Raymond Ferrer
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Tony Cortes (real name: Antonio Cortés)
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Nicole Guettard
Production Secretary: Odette Darrigol
Administrators: Jacqueline Dudilleux, Jean Van Praag
CAST
Estella Blain (Nadja / Miss Muerte)
Mabel Karr (Irma Zimmer)
Howard Vernon (Dr Vicas)
Fernando Montes (Dr Phillippe Brighthouse)
Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui
Cris Huerta
Alberto Bourbón
Guy Mairesse (Hans Bergen)
Antonio Jiménez Escribano (Dr Zimmer - uncredited)
Ana Castor (Dr Zimmer's assistant - uncredited)
Alberto Dalbés (uncredited)
Jesus Franco (uncredited)
José María Prada (uncredited)
Lucía Prado (uncredited)
Daniel White (Inspector Green - uncredited)
PLOT SUMMARY
Doctor Von Zimmer captures the escaped criminal
Franz Bergen and uses him as the subject of his strange experiments.
He dies of a heart attack when his work on the removal of the personality
is ridiculed by his peers and his daughte Irma vows to carry on his
work and avenge his death. She uses her father's techniques to possess
the nightclub dancer Nadia, known as Miss Death, who is soon murdering
on her behalf.
AVAILABILITY
Canada
Theatrical Distributor: Astral Films
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Mercurio Films S.A.
UK
DVD Distributor: Mondo Macabro
USA
Theatrical Distributor: U.S. Films Inc
Video Distributors: Sinister Cinema; Something Weird Video
DVD Distributor: Mondo Macabro (1460-7)
TIMELINE
1967
February
15: USA – theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Dans les griffes du maniaque - French
title
The Diabolical Dr Z - US title
Le diabolique docteur Z - French title
Das Geheimnis des Dr Z - West German title
Miss Death
LINKS
SEE ALSO
El enigma del ataúd (1969)
Gritos en la noche (1962)
Los ojos siniestros del doctor Orloff (1973)
El siniestro doctor Orloff (1984)
La vie amoureuse de l'homme invisible (1971)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Mad Ron's Prevue's from Hell (1987)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Obsession - The Films of Jesus Franco pp.51
- 52
illustrated credits, review (by Lucas Balbo)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
dancers, mind control, nightclubs, revenge, scientists, sequels
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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