The Fly

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Also Known As

La mosca (Argentina / Spain)
Öldüren arzu (Turkey) (Turkish title)
A Mosca (Portugal)
A Mosca da Cabeça Branca (Brazil)
A légy (Hungary) (imdb display title)
De vlieg (Belgium) (Flemish title)
Die Fliege (Germany)
Fluen (Denmark)
Flugan (Sweden)
I myga (Greece) (DVD title)
I myiga (Greece) (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
Kärpänen (Finland)
L'esperimento del dottor K. (Italy)
La mouche (Belgium) (French title)
La mouche noire (France)

Taglines

If she looked upon the horror her husband had become... she would scream for the rest of her life!

Horror Of The Winged Menace !

Terrifying! Nerve Shattering! Bloodcurdling!

She had to kill the thing her husband had become -- But could she?

Once it was human... even as you and I!

The monster created by atoms gone wild

The fly with the head of a man...! And the man with the head of a fly!

It's the terror-topper first introduced to the public in "Playboy" Magazine!

100$ if you prove it can't happen!

For your own good we urge you not to see it alone!

Main Details

Released in 1958
Color
Running Time: 94 Min.
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Distribution Co: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1958) (USA) (theatrical) | Centfox (1958) (West Germany) (theatrical) | Cat-Film Distributions (1958) (Sweden) (theatrical) | Fox Film (1958) (Sweden) (theatrical)

Cast and Crew

Directed by Kurt Neumann
Written by George Langelaan, James Clavell
Starring David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson
Produced by Kurt Neumann, Robert L. Lippert
Original Music by Paul Sawtell
Cinematography by Karl Struss
Film Editing by Merrill G. White