Fiend Without a Face
| Fiend Without a Face | |
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| Directed by | Arthur Crabtree |
| Produced by | John Croydon & Richard Gordon |
| Written by | Herbert J. Leder |
| Starring |
Marshall Thompson Kynaston Reeves Michael Balfour Kim Parker |
| Music by | Buxton Orr |
| Cinematography | Lionel Banes |
| Edited by | R.Q. McNaughton |
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Production
company |
Amalgamated Productions
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| Distributed by |
MGM (USA) Eros Films (UK) |
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Release date
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December 1958 (UK) |
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Running time
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77 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £50,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $650,000 (on double bill) |
Fiend Without a Face is a 1958 independently made British black-and-white science fiction-horror film from Amalgamated Productions, produced by John Croydon and Richard Gordon, and directed by Arthur Crabtree. The film stars Marshall Thompson, Kynaston Reeves, Michael Balfour, and Kim Parker. The film was released in the UK by Eros Films and in US by MGM.
Fiend Without a Face tells the story of mysterious deaths at the hands of a mentally created invisible life form that feeds on atomic power and then steals human brains and spinal columns to use as bodies in order to multiply its numbers.
The screenplay by Herbert J. Leder was based upon Amelia Reynolds Long's 1930 short story "The Thought Monster", originally published in the March 1930 issue of Weird Tales magazine.
U. S. Air Force Interceptor Command Experimental Station No. 6 is a long-range radar installation located in Winthrop, Manitoba, Canada. Unexplained deaths begin to occur in the general area of a farming village near the American base. Postmortems reveal the victims were murdered and the brains and spinal cords are missing from the corpses; the only clue left behind are two puncture marks at the base of each skull. The locals, however, become convinced that radiation leaks from the radar installation's nuclear-power experiments are the cause of the mysterious deaths.
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