Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
- mask
- life and death
- wife
- loss of loved one
- scotland yard
- dark comedy
- organ
- inspector
- revenge
- murder
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Virginia North — Vulnavia
- Peter Jeffrey — Inspector Trout
- Derek Godfrey — Crow
- Norman Jones — Sgt. Schenley
- John Cater — Superintendent Waverley
- Aubrey Woods — Goldsmith
- John Laurie — Darrow
- Maurice Kaufmann — Dr. Whitcombe
- Barbara Keogh — Mrs. Frawley
- Sean Bury — Lem Vesalius
- Susan Travers — Nurse Allen
- Directed
- Robert Fuest
- Written
- William Goldstein, James Whiton
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 342 ratings
- Studio
- American International Productions (England)
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1971 · You’re hereThe Abominable Dr. Phibes
Where it starts.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again
1972
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
