DVD
Fiend without a face
Call Number
- DVD SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired.
Performers
Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Kim Parker, Stanley Maxted, Terence Kilburn, James Dyrenforth, Robert MacKenzie, Peter Madden, Gil Winfield.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2000.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (74 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
A scientist performing renegade research on thought materialization unwittingly creates creatures of pure atomic energy that hunger for human nervous systems. These brain-like creatures begin attacking people near a secret Air Force radar station, devouring their brains.
Notes
Based on a story by Amelia Reynolds Long.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
Liner notes by noted film scholar Bruce Kawin, inserted.
Special features include: Audio commentary: A conversation with executive producer Richard Gordon and genre film writer Tom Weaver ; a collection of trailers from Godon films: Fiend without a face, The haunted strangler, Corridor's of blood, First man into space, and The atomic submarine ; rare still photographs and ephemera, with commentary ; vintage advertisements and lobby cards.