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Mega-Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

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Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda in...

Spirits of the Dead

( Catalog Number ID3744WB )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
French Language with English Subtitles
Corrected Version with fixed sound track
LaserDisc

Spirits of the Dead
1968 - 117 min. - Color
Genre: Horror
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
With SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, three titans of European cinema--Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, and Federico Fellini--team up for a stylish film based on the works of macabre author Edgar Allan Poe. Vadim directs the first segment, METZENGERSTEIN, with Jane Fonda portraying the spoiled, vicious Frederique. When she finally meets her neighbor, Baron Wilhelm (played by her brother Peter), her advances toward him are met with rejection. Humiliated, she takes matters into her own hands, leading her into a downward spiral with a tragic ending. Malle takes the middle slot with WILLIAM WILSON, featuring Alain Delon as the troubled hero, a man who has been haunted since childhood by a man with his exact name. After torturing a gorgeous woman (Brigitte Bardot), a final duel brings William's ghosts home once and for all. Last but not least is Fellini's segment, a story set in the 1970s entitled TOBY DAMMIT, which stars Terence Stamp as a spacey English actor who travels to Rome in order to play Christ in a New Testament Western. When he gets the keys to a brand-new Ferrari, he embarks on a dangerous drive that just might cost him his life. SPIRITS OF THE DEAD is a real gem for those who enjoy the surreal and grotesque.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Released in Europe as Histoires Extraordinaires and Tre Passi Nel Delirio, this is a portmanteau picture, comprised of three supernatural playlets based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. "Metzengerstein," directed by Roger Vadim, stars the director's then-wife Jane Fonda as a medieval woman prone to acts of vengeance. Her brother Peter Fonda is somewhat perversely cast as her cousin, for whom she holds incestuous yearnings. When he gives her the cold shoulder, she spitefully sets fire to his stable of horses. He is himself killed in the blaze, but it seems that he has been reincarnated as a horse. In "William Wilson," directed by Louis Malle, a sadistic Austrian officer (Alain Delon) commits various S&M misdeeds upon a variety of victims, including a woman (Brigitte Bardot) with whom he plays cards. The officer himself comes to grief when he finds that the Church will not allow him to say an act of contrition. And "Never Bet Your Head," directed by Federico Fellini, updates the Poe original by casting Terence Stamp as a self-indulgent movie star. Driving drunk one evening, the actor literally bets his head that he can escape a potentially fatal accident. --- Hal Erickson

This collection of three haunting tales of death by Edgar Allan Poe forms a stylish unit that blends together perfectly. While loosely adapted from Poe's work and less horrifying than Roger Corman's Poe films, the stories really capture the demented inner structure of the author's writing as opposed to focusing on the more graphic possibilities. "Metzengerstein" stars director Roger Vadim's then-wife Jane Fonda in the role of a sadistic baroness. Peter Fonda delivers a solemn performance as the cousin who seemingly returns to haunt Jane in the form of a majestic black horse. This opening segment is marked by its frank depiction of sexuality, as well as lush photography by Claude Renoir (notice the incredible shot of Jane riding on the cliffs above a roiling ocean) and fantastic costume design by Jacques Fonteray --- both of whom did equally impressive work on Barbarella. Jane Fonda actually spoke her own French dialogue for the part. The middle story is "William Wilson" directed by Louis Malle. The tale revolves around a nasty young man (Alain Delon) who finds himself continuously exposed as a fraud by a lookalike with the same name. This segment is the most graphic of the three (Delon's live near-dissection of a naked woman being the highlight) and is filled with a constant feeling of dread. Delon plays the role perfectly and finds an excellent foil in Brigitte Bardot whose weakness for cards results in an excruciating flogging sequence. "Toby Dammit" is the final tale and was directed by Federico Fellini with his usual surreal style that is both amusing and disturbing, often at the same time. Terence Stamp is excellent as a drunken movie star whose debauched life is haunted by the devil --- who appears to him in the form of a little girl. Stamp's frenetic performance is a topper in this eerie, beautifully directed tale, filled with the kinds of fantastic, surreal imagery that marked Fellini's work. --- Patrick Legare

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Cast for Spirits of the Dead

Jane Fonda - Countess Frederica
Terence Stamp - Toby
Brigitte Bardot - Giuseppina
Alain Delon - William
James Robertson-Justice - Countess' Advisor [Metzengerstein]
Peter Fonda - Wilhelm
Franoise Prevost - Friend
Vincent Price - Narrator
Salvo Randone - Priest
Polidor - [Never Bet The Devil Your Head]
Alcardo Ward - 1st Interviewer
Clement Biddle Wood - Narrator
Marco Stefanelli - Wilson as a child
Anne Tonietti - Television Commentator
Andras Voutsinas - 2nd Guest [Metzengerstein]
Daniele Vargas - Professor
Marina Yaru - Child
Katia Christina - Young Girl
Ernesto Colli - 2nd Director
Paul Cooper - 2nd Interviewer
Rick Boyd - [Never Bet The Devil Your Head]
Fabrizio Angeli - 1st Director
Renzo Palmer - Priest [William Wilson]
Carla Marlier - Claude
Serge Marquand - Hugues [Metzengerstein]
Umberto D'Orsi - Hans
Georges Douking - du Lissier [Metzengerstein]
Philippe Lemaire - Philippe
Anny Duperey - 1st Guest [Metzengerstein]

Crew for Spirits of the Dead

Federico Fellini - Director / Screenwriter
Louis Malle - Director / Screenwriter
Roger Vadim - Director / Screenwriter
Alberto Grimaldi - Producer
Daniel Boulanger - Screenwriter
Pascal Cousin - Screenwriter
Edgar Allan Poe - Story Author
Clement Biddle Wood - Screenwriter
Bernardino Zapponi - Screenwriter
Tonino Delli Colli - Cinematographer
Claude Renoir - Cinematographer
Giuseppe Rotunno - Cinematographer
Diego Masson - Composer (Music Score)
Jean Prodromides - Composer (Music Score)
Nino Rota - Composer (Music Score)
Franco Arcalli - Editor
Suzanne Baron - Editor
Ruggero Mastroianni - Editor
Hlne Plemiannikov - Editor
Ghislain Uhry - Production Designer
Jean Forestier - Art Director
Carlo Leva - Art Director
Piero Tosi - Art Director / Costume Designer
Jean Andr - Set Designer
Jacques Fonteray - Costume Designer
Joseph Natamson - Special Effects

Feature Details

Title: Spirits of the Dead
Feature Release Date: 1968
Genre: Horror
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Color
Runtime: 117 Minutes
Chapters: 31
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CLV

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LD Release Date: 12 Aug 1998
Catalog Number: ID3744WB
UPC: 014381374469
Publisher: Image Entertainment

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: French
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ID3744WB
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
1 in Stock

Mega-Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with several splits and a compressed corner

Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda in...

Spirits of the Dead

( Catalog Number ID3744WB )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
French Language with English Subtitles
Corrected Version with fixed sound track
LaserDisc

Spirits of the Dead
1968 - 117 min. - Color
Genre: Horror
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
With SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, three titans of European cinema--Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, and Federico Fellini--team up for a stylish film based on the works of macabre author Edgar Allan Poe. Vadim directs the first segment, METZENGERSTEIN, with Jane Fonda portraying the spoiled, vicious Frederique. When she finally meets her neighbor, Baron Wilhelm (played by her brother Peter), her advances toward him are met with rejection. Humiliated, she takes matters into her own hands, leading her into a downward spiral with a tragic ending. Malle takes the middle slot with WILLIAM WILSON, featuring Alain Delon as the troubled hero, a man who has been haunted since childhood by a man with his exact name. After torturing a gorgeous woman (Brigitte Bardot), a final duel brings William's ghosts home once and for all. Last but not least is Fellini's segment, a story set in the 1970s entitled TOBY DAMMIT, which stars Terence Stamp as a spacey English actor who travels to Rome in order to play Christ in a New Testament Western. When he gets the keys to a brand-new Ferrari, he embarks on a dangerous drive that just might cost him his life. SPIRITS OF THE DEAD is a real gem for those who enjoy the surreal and grotesque.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Released in Europe as Histoires Extraordinaires and Tre Passi Nel Delirio, this is a portmanteau picture, comprised of three supernatural playlets based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. "Metzengerstein," directed by Roger Vadim, stars the director's then-wife Jane Fonda as a medieval woman prone to acts of vengeance. Her brother Peter Fonda is somewhat perversely cast as her cousin, for whom she holds incestuous yearnings. When he gives her the cold shoulder, she spitefully sets fire to his stable of horses. He is himself killed in the blaze, but it seems that he has been reincarnated as a horse. In "William Wilson," directed by Louis Malle, a sadistic Austrian officer (Alain Delon) commits various S&M misdeeds upon a variety of victims, including a woman (Brigitte Bardot) with whom he plays cards. The officer himself comes to grief when he finds that the Church will not allow him to say an act of contrition. And "Never Bet Your Head," directed by Federico Fellini, updates the Poe original by casting Terence Stamp as a self-indulgent movie star. Driving drunk one evening, the actor literally bets his head that he can escape a potentially fatal accident. --- Hal Erickson

This collection of three haunting tales of death by Edgar Allan Poe forms a stylish unit that blends together perfectly. While loosely adapted from Poe's work and less horrifying than Roger Corman's Poe films, the stories really capture the demented inner structure of the author's writing as opposed to focusing on the more graphic possibilities. "Metzengerstein" stars director Roger Vadim's then-wife Jane Fonda in the role of a sadistic baroness. Peter Fonda delivers a solemn performance as the cousin who seemingly returns to haunt Jane in the form of a majestic black horse. This opening segment is marked by its frank depiction of sexuality, as well as lush photography by Claude Renoir (notice the incredible shot of Jane riding on the cliffs above a roiling ocean) and fantastic costume design by Jacques Fonteray --- both of whom did equally impressive work on Barbarella. Jane Fonda actually spoke her own French dialogue for the part. The middle story is "William Wilson" directed by Louis Malle. The tale revolves around a nasty young man (Alain Delon) who finds himself continuously exposed as a fraud by a lookalike with the same name. This segment is the most graphic of the three (Delon's live near-dissection of a naked woman being the highlight) and is filled with a constant feeling of dread. Delon plays the role perfectly and finds an excellent foil in Brigitte Bardot whose weakness for cards results in an excruciating flogging sequence. "Toby Dammit" is the final tale and was directed by Federico Fellini with his usual surreal style that is both amusing and disturbing, often at the same time. Terence Stamp is excellent as a drunken movie star whose debauched life is haunted by the devil --- who appears to him in the form of a little girl. Stamp's frenetic performance is a topper in this eerie, beautifully directed tale, filled with the kinds of fantastic, surreal imagery that marked Fellini's work. --- Patrick Legare

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Cast for Spirits of the Dead

Jane Fonda - Countess Frederica
Terence Stamp - Toby
Brigitte Bardot - Giuseppina
Alain Delon - William
James Robertson-Justice - Countess' Advisor [Metzengerstein]
Peter Fonda - Wilhelm
Franoise Prevost - Friend
Vincent Price - Narrator
Salvo Randone - Priest
Polidor - [Never Bet The Devil Your Head]
Alcardo Ward - 1st Interviewer
Clement Biddle Wood - Narrator
Marco Stefanelli - Wilson as a child
Anne Tonietti - Television Commentator
Andras Voutsinas - 2nd Guest [Metzengerstein]
Daniele Vargas - Professor
Marina Yaru - Child
Katia Christina - Young Girl
Ernesto Colli - 2nd Director
Paul Cooper - 2nd Interviewer
Rick Boyd - [Never Bet The Devil Your Head]
Fabrizio Angeli - 1st Director
Renzo Palmer - Priest [William Wilson]
Carla Marlier - Claude
Serge Marquand - Hugues [Metzengerstein]
Umberto D'Orsi - Hans
Georges Douking - du Lissier [Metzengerstein]
Philippe Lemaire - Philippe
Anny Duperey - 1st Guest [Metzengerstein]

Crew for Spirits of the Dead

Federico Fellini - Director / Screenwriter
Louis Malle - Director / Screenwriter
Roger Vadim - Director / Screenwriter
Alberto Grimaldi - Producer
Daniel Boulanger - Screenwriter
Pascal Cousin - Screenwriter
Edgar Allan Poe - Story Author
Clement Biddle Wood - Screenwriter
Bernardino Zapponi - Screenwriter
Tonino Delli Colli - Cinematographer
Claude Renoir - Cinematographer
Giuseppe Rotunno - Cinematographer
Diego Masson - Composer (Music Score)
Jean Prodromides - Composer (Music Score)
Nino Rota - Composer (Music Score)
Franco Arcalli - Editor
Suzanne Baron - Editor
Ruggero Mastroianni - Editor
Hlne Plemiannikov - Editor
Ghislain Uhry - Production Designer
Jean Forestier - Art Director
Carlo Leva - Art Director
Piero Tosi - Art Director / Costume Designer
Jean Andr - Set Designer
Jacques Fonteray - Costume Designer
Joseph Natamson - Special Effects

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