The Fly

Release Date: August 29, 1958
Starring: David Hedison as Andre Delambre
Patricia Owens as Helene Delambre
Vincent Price as Francois Delambre
Herbert Marshall as Inspector Charas
Based on short story by George Langelaan
Screenplay: James Clavell
Director: Kurt Neumann
Based on short story by George Langelaan
Screenplay: James Clavell
Music: Paul Sawtell
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Producer: Kurt Neumann
Time: 94 min color (cinemascope)
Budget: $500,000

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Interesting Tidbits

The Fly was one of the more successful films of 1958. Its success generated two sequels. The first, The Return of the Fly was released in 1959; the second, The Curse of the Fly, was produced in England and released in 1965.

The Plot

A classic science-fiction/horror film about a scientist's "teleport" machines, which dissolve atoms in one place to recreate them in another. When the scientist unwittingly shares the machine with a common housefly, he turns into a hideous hybrid of man and insect--and begins to literally bug out. The scientist wants to reverse the process, but first he must catch that fly. Hilarious as well as horrific, this spawned two sequels in the '50s (RETURN OF THE FLY and CURSE OF THE FLY) before starting another cycle in the '80s, beginning with David Cronenberg's remake.