Le Spectre du professeur Hichcock

Original title: Lo spettro

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Le Spectre du professeur Hichcock (1963)

A woman and her lover murder her doctor husband, but when strange things start happening, they wonder if they really killed him, or if he has come back from the dead to haunt them.A woman and her lover murder her doctor husband, but when strange things start happening, they wonder if they really killed him, or if he has come back from the dead to haunt them.A woman and her lover murder her doctor husband, but when strange things start happening, they wonder if they really killed him, or if he has come back from the dead to haunt them.

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Barbara Steele

Margaret Hichcock

Peter Baldwin

Dr. Charles Livingstone

Elio Jotta

Dr. John Hichcock
(as Leonard G. Elliot)

Harriet Medin

Catherine Wood - Housekeeper
(as Harriet White)

Carol Bennet

Woman

Carlo Kechler

Police Superintendent
(as Charles Kechler)

Umberto Raho

Canon Owens
(as Raoul H. Newman)

Reginald Price Anderson

Albert Fisher

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Made during the pseudonym craze of the 1960s, the music score was credited to "Franck Wallace." Italian composers usually registered their pseudonyms with their performing right society, the SIAE, and the identities were listed by Bianco e Nero and the Monthly Film Bulletin who both reported that Wallace was Franco Mannino. However, some reference sources such as Donald C. Willis in 1972 suggested "Franck Wallace" was a joint pseudonym for Mannino and Roman Vlad (the two composers sometimes collaborated and Wallace is a very rough transliteration of Vlad). Even more confusingly, Beat Records released the soundtrack in 2008 and discovered that the surviving tapes in the Nazionalmusic vaults were attributed to Francesco De Masi. So the CD went out credited to De Masi only. De Masi did not work with either of the other two composers, instead being asked at the behest of the director to do a new score, not liking Mannino's effort; what portions thereof are contained in the film, are unknown, as the director seemingly changed his mind again, as Mannino is credited in the film for the score.

Goofs
When Dr. Livingston removes the bullet from the wall, there is a close-up of him holding an entire cartridge in his hands.

Quotes
Dr. John Hichcock: [hands around Margaret's throat] Feel how strong my grip is? But I won't kill you.

Connections
Featured in 100 Years of Horror: Ghosts (1996)

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suspenseful and atmospheric film, with some occasional well placed shockers

I recently watched this film, which was part of a 10 pack horror collection that was put out by Brentwood. Unfortunately the source print for this dvd was a print that was in terrible condition, and barely watchable.

The first thing that struck me about this film was the music. Even during the opening credits I was watching the credits carefully to see who the composer was, half expecting it to be Ennio Morricone, (which it wasn't). If the music wasn't enough to hook me completely, seeing Barbara Steele on the screen, whom I immediately recalled from "Black Sabbath" definitely made me want to continue watching this film, bad print and all.

The setting of this film is a gloomy Scottish mansion, around the turn of the century. The young wife (Steele) of the creepy, crippled and rich Dr. Hitchcock, conspires with her handsome lover, to murder her husband. Her lover happens to be her husbands physician who is treating him by administering a lethal poison which is immediately followed with the antidote. Needless to say they decide not to administer the second part of the treatment one day and are able to fulfill their burning desire to be together, happy ,rich and rid of the husband. Unfortunately for them, things don't quite work out so well, and things begin to unravel during a succession of supernatural events that take place after the murder.

While this is a fairly predictable plot of greedy people being punished from beyond the grave, the director manages to create a suspenseful and atmospheric film, with some occasional well placed shockers. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and would love to see an uncut well preserved print of it.