La casa de las mil muñecas (1967)

User Rating:

4.6/10   

Director:

Jeremy Summers

Writers:

María del Carmen Martínez Román (screenplay)
María del Carmen Martínez Román (story)

Release Date:

13 March 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Here are the SHOCKING FACTS discovered within the...

Plot:

When a vacationing couple in Tangiers run into an old friend there, they discover that he is searching...

Plot Keywords:

Pretty Girl | Kidnapping | Beautiful Woman

Cast

George Nader	...	Stephen Armstrong
Vincent Price	...	Felix Manderville
Martha Hyer	...	Rebecca
Ann Smyrner	...	Marie Armstrong
Wolfgang Kieling	...	Inspector Emil
Sancho Gracia	...	Fernando
Maria Rohm	...	Diane
Luis Rivera	...	Paul (as Louis Rivera)
José Jaspe	...	Ahmed
Juan Olaguivel	...	Salim
Herbert Fux	...	Abdu
Yelena Samarina	...	Madame Viera
Diane Bond	...	Liza
Andrea Lascelles	...	Doll
Ursula Janis	...	Doll

Also Known As:

Das Haus der tausend Freuden (West Germany)
House of 1,000 Dolls (USA)
House of a Thousand Dolls (UK)
House of a Thousand Pleasures

Runtime:

90 min | Spain:87 min | UK:95 min

Country:

Spain | West Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | West Germany:18 (nf) | UK:X (cut) | Spain:18

Filming Locations:

Ceuta, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Constantin Film Produktion

Movie Connections:

Edited into Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 10 (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

House of a Thousand Dolls

A movie that will leave you constantly waiting for things to finally start off.

What an incredible lackluster movie!

You're constantly waiting for the movie to finally start off. When is the suspense and mystery going to kick in? The movie feels like one big constant introduction to events that just never occur.

This movie would had had absolutely no watch-ability value if Vincent Price wasn't in this. He played in lots of movies like this and he often didn't even played the lead role. In some cases he was on the screen for no more than 10 minutes but still was always being presented as THE evil main villain of the movie. This movie is one of those examples. But as always his presence uplifts the movie and gives it more class and sense of professionalism. It's always amazing to see how he absolutely has no difficulties delivering the most awful lines in an almost Shakespearean way. But still, a movie like this makes you wonder what Vincent Price is doing in it. The only reason I could think of was that this movie was based on an Edgar Allen Poe story but this wasn't even the case.

I wish I could call the movie sleazy. In that case the movie would still had some camp value but the movie just never goes in that direction.

The story is very silly and simple. At times it seems it's heading in the horror direction, at times it seems it's heading in the thriller direction, but it's just never fully heading anywhere in any direction in the end. I also wouldn't know under which genre to qualify this movie.

There is a good reason this movie gets very rarely shown anywhere.

3/10