The Abominable Dr. Phibes
– Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the s..
Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.
18 May 1971
English, Hebrew
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Robert Fuest
James Whiton, William Goldstein
Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas
Doctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, killer frog masks, etc., which represent the nine Biblical plagues. The crimes are orchestrated by the organ-playing, demented Dr .Phibes - from his base; replete with a clockwork orchestra with the help of his mute assistant. The detective is stumped until he finds that all of the doctors being killed assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of Dr. Phibes, but he couldn't be the culprit, could he? He was killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death...
1 win & 1 nomination.
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