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The Fly (1958)

Approved | | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 13 May 1959 (France)
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A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

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After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months. They were very much in love and with their little boy, a very happy family. Andre was experimenting with teleportation - transporting objects from one point to another by breaking the object down to the atomic level and then reassembling it in a receiver a distance away. The system had some glitches - it seemed to work with inanimate object but his cat disappeared when he tried teleporting it. He thinks he's solved all of the problems with his invention and decides to try and teleport himself. When a fly enters the teleportation device with him, disaster strikes. Written by garykmcd

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$700,000 (estimated)
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Trivia

The film was re-released in Spain twice--in 1988 in a limited release (subtitled version only), in Madrid by Artistic Metropol in 2014 and in Barcelona by Phenomena in 2016, also in a subtitled version. See more »

Goofs

When the fly is first revealed in the spider's web, when Vincent Price's character is unaware, you see the fly struggling in the web. The string used to make the fly shake is visible. See more »

Quotes

Insp. Charas: I shall never forget that scream as long as I live...
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Referenced in Doctor Who Confidential: Desert Storm (2009) See more »

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As a child in the theater I screamed and had bad dreams....
16 May 2001 | by (Portland, Oregon) – See all my reviews

As a child in the theater I screamed and had bad dreams.... Then as a teenager I watched the "Fly" on TV and still Jumped back in fear at the sight of that horrible face! A few years later my friends and I watched it on TV again, but this time I turned down the sound at the scary scenes ( theorizing that the music was the cause of the fear) but even at low volume the haunting cries of "Help me...Help me" gave me the chills. A MUST SEE DF.
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