Orloff et l'homme invisible (1971)

Country of Origin: Spain/France
Year of Production: 1971
Running Times: 82m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Eastmancolor
Ratio: 1.66:1
Sound:

DIRECTION

Directed by: Pierre Chevalier

CREW

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Eurocine presents   Célia Films Paris/Producciones Mezquíriz Madrid
Produced by: Marius Lesoeur

SCRIPT
Original Screenplay by: Pierre Chevalier

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Raymond Heil
Color by: Laboratoires Eclair

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: Albert G. Nicolau, Fernande Pineau

MUSIC
Music by: Camille Sauvage

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make-Up: Dolores García Rey

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Juan Fortuny and Procédé Kinotechnique

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Assistant Decorateur: Daniel Lesoeur

OTHER CREW
Script (Supervisor): France Villon

CAST

With
Howard Vernon (Professeur Orloff)
Brigitte Carva (Cécile Orloff)
Fernand Sancho (le garde-chasse)

and with
Francis Valladares (real name: Paco Valladares) (Docteur Garondet)
Isabel del Río (Marie)
Evane Hanska (la servante)
Arlette Balkis
May Chartrette
Christian Forges

and
Eugène Berthier (le vieux serviteur)

PLOT SUMMARY

A doctor is called to the castle of the reclusive Professor Orloff. There, he finds himself caught up in the Orloff's experiments in invisibility.

AVAILABILITY

Canada
Theatrical Distributors: Cinépix Film Properties Inc.
Video Distributors: PDV

Spain
Theatrical Distributors: Tándem Films

UK
DVD Distributors: Arrow (FCD138)

USA
Video Distributors: Mad Monster Video; Sinister Cinema; Something Weird Video; VCI Home Video; Wizard Video
DVD Distributors: Image Entertainment

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Canada
Rating: 16+ (Quebec); R (Ontario)

UK
Rating: 18

TIMELINE

2001
April
10: USA – DVD release (Image Entertainment)

2004
August
31: USA – DVD release (Image Entertainment (as part of The Orloff Collection (The Awful Dr Orloff / Dr Orloff's Monster / Revenge in the House of Usher / Orloff and the Invisible Man)))

POSTER TAGS

God help us... if they rise again!!! (UK DVD cover)

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Dr Orloff's Invisible Monster - US title
Love Life of the Invisible Man - US title
Morte invisibile, La - Italian title
Notti erotiche dell'uomo invisibile, Le - Italian title
Orloff Against the Invisible Man - US title
Orloff and the Invisible Man - UK title
Orloff y el hombre invisible - Spanish title
Schreckenshaus des Dr Orloff, Das - German DVD title
Secret Love Life of the Invisible Man - Canadian title
Invisible Dead, The - UK title
Unsichtbare Tod, Der - West German video title
Vie amoureuse de l'homme invisible, La – French title

LINKS

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Zombiethon (1986)

REFERENCES

PERIODICALS

Cinefantastique vol.3 no.1 (October 1973) pp.42-43 (USA)
review (by Jean-Claude Morlot)

Cineinforme no.149 (15 April 1972) p.10 (Spain)
review

Le Film Francais no.1342 (15 May 1970) p.8 (France)
credits

La Techynique/l'Exploitation Cinématographique no.316 (March 1970) p.E17 (France)
credits

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

apes, ape men, beds, bedrooms, doctors, experiments, insanity, invisibility, invisible men, mad doctors, mad scientists, rape, voyeurism

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009