Talk:The Fly (1958 film)

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Contents 1 hellp meee!! 2 Popular culture 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Theflyposter.jpg 4 Laughter and back to back acting?

[edit] hellp meee!!

At the end of the film, why is the fly with the scientist's head crying out in English if the real scientist had the fly's head?(AndrewAnorak (talk) 20:14, 10 February 2008 (UTC))

Since the film's set in Canada, why not in French? M B-G 203.171.196.1 (talk) 04:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Popular culture

ENOUGH with the popular culture already; how about somebody actually writing something about the film!!!

trezjr 21:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

What's to expand on, really? The film's plot is really fairly simple, and The Fly's impact on popular culture is arguably its most notable aspect. -Toptomcat 19:05, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

It wasn't Vincent Price who killed the fly at the end of the movie, but Inspector Charas, visibly disturbed for seeing something he had refused to believe first (the scene of the "human fly" screaming just moments before the spider is about to bite it is probably one of the most horrifying moments of the film!). Then Price comfronts him, asking him if the killing of a fly with a human head is not comparable to the murder of a man with the head of a fly. Because of that, and after trying to find an acceptable allivi for Vincent Price's sister-in-law, the woman is set free.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Theflyposter.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:22, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Laughter and back to back acting?

Many years ago, I owned a book, which claimed that Price and Marshall had to film some of their scenes standing back to back, because they kept making each other laugh. Can anyone provide a source for this? TheAstonishingBadger (talk) 11:49, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

"The Complete Films of Vincent Price" by Lucy Chase Williams (Citadel Press 1995) has an extract from the Vincent Price Lecture "The Villains Still Pursure Me". This was one of many talks Vincent would give on the lecture circut concering art, culture and this one, his horror movies. The extract tells how Price and Herbert Marshall kept breaking up in laughter at confronting the fly/human screaming "help meee!" on the web.
Quote: "Finally, Herbert Marshall, said,'Help you! To hell with you! Help us!'
Matthew Bateman-Graham 203.171.196.1 (talk) 04:24, 28 February 2008 (UTC)