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Overview

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Writers:

Edgar Allan Poe (story) (segment "Metzengerstein")
Roger Vadim (adaptation) (segment "Metzengerstein") ...
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Release Date:

23 July 1969 (USA) more

Genre:

Horror | Mystery more

Tagline:

the ultimate orgy of evil more

Plot:

Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged... more | add synopsis

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NewsDesk:
(2 articles)

Stamp Owes Astrologer For Fine Voice
 (From WENN. 31 December 2008, 12:12 AM, PST)

"The Sacrifice"
 (From The AV Club. 5 June 2008, 10:00 PM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Brigitte Bardot ... Giuseppina (segment "William Wilson")
Alain Delon ... William Wilson (segment "William Wilson")

Jane Fonda ... Contessa Frederique de Metzengerstein (segment "Metzengerstein")

Terence Stamp ... Toby Dammit (segment "Toby Dammit")
James Robertson Justice ... Countess' Advisor (segment "Metzengerstein")
Salvo Randone ... Priest (segment "Toby Dammit")
Françoise Prévost ... Friend of Countess (segment "Metzengerstein") (as Francoise Prevost)

Peter Fonda ... Baron Wilhelm Berlifitzing (segment "Metzengerstein")
Marlène Alexandre ... (segment "Metzengerstein")
Marie-Ange Aniès ... (segment "Metzengerstein")
David Bresson
Katia Christine ... Young Girl (segment "William Wilson") (as Katia Christina)
Peter Dane
Georges Douking ... Du Lissier (segment "Metzengerstein")
Philippe Lemaire ... Philippe (segment "Metzengerstein")
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Spirits of the Dead (USA)
Tales of Mystery
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (UK)
Tre passi nel delirio (Italy)
Trois histoires extraordinaires d'Edgar Poe
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Runtime:

121 min

Country:

France | Italy

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.75 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Certification:

Argentina:16 | UK:18 (1990) (cut) | UK:X (1973) (cut) | Italy:VM14 (re-rating) (1999) | Finland:K-16 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bergamo, Lombardia, Italy more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Peter O'Toole was originally cast as Toby Dammit. After he pulled out, Federico Fellini contacted a London casting agency and asked them to send the most decadent actors they had to Rome to see him. They sent Terence Stamp and James Fox, and Fellini chose Stamp. more

Goofs:

Continuity: When Countess Frederique ("Metzengerstein") is urging the black stallion into the sea, her ermine-trimmed cloak is suddenly gone. more

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38 out of 47 people found the following comment useful.
Terence Dammit Stamp, 29 December 2004
8/10
Author: arichmondfwc from United States

Three Edgar Alan Poe stories, three directors, a genius director, a great director and a director. The top international stars of their day: Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, Terence Stamp, Alain Delon and Brigitte Bardot. The Roger Vadim episode with the two Fondas is quite terrible, Jane with her left over costumes from Barbarella, is always watchable but what a mess. Delon and Bardot are fun to watch but the piece looks more a rehash of one of the weakest Hammer horror flicks than a film signed by the great Louis Malle. However, I wouldn't mind sitting through those turkeys once again for the sheer pleasure of the third segment: Fellini's "Toby Dammit" with a superlative Terence Stamp. Unique, unnerving, jaw dropping, funny, delightful gem of a film.

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Metzengerstein.... nickrogers1969
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