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Robert Fuest & His Abominable Creations

Posted by Kimberly Lindbergs on May 26, 2016

Vincent Price & Robert Fuest on the set of The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

TCM’s month-long celebration of American International Pictures comes to an end tonightwith some of the com pany’s best productions from the seventies including Martin Scorsese’sBoxcar Bertha (1972), Brian De Palma‘s Sisters (1973), Roger Corman’s Bloody Mama(1970) featuring one of Robert De Niro’s early screen appearances, William Crain’s Blacula(1972) and the little-seen A Matter of Time (1976), which was the last film directed byVincente Minnelli. I haven’t seen the Minnelli film myself so I’m looking forward to fi nallycatching up with it but today I thought I’d focus my attention on filmmaker Robert Fuest.

Fuest directed the first AIP film airing in tonight’s impressive line-up, The Abominable Dr.Phibes (1971) featuring Vincent Price in one of his most memorable roles.

The late Robert Fuest, who died in 2012 at age 84, has become one of my favoritefilmmakers over the years thanks to his artistic direction and ability to mix fear and humor into a creative combustible cocktail that yielded such gems as The Abominable Dr. Phibesand its sequel Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) as well as the brilliant, stylish and utterly

bonkers Michael Moorcock adaptation, The Final Programme (1973). Other films in hisimpressive oeuvre include Just Like a Woman (1967), And Soon the Darkness (1970),Wuthering Heights (1970) and The Devil’s Rain (1975).

Fuest was born in the London Borough of Croydon and served in the British Royal Air Force before attending the Wimbledon and Hornsey Schools of Art. After graduating, he taught for a brief period and following a few odd jobs that included working at bookshops, record shopsand playing drums in a jazz band, Fuest joined the graphic design department of ABC(Associated British Corporation) Television. Soon afterward, he became part of the

production team of a new cutting-edge spy series called The Avengers.

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Episodes of The Avengers directed by Robert Fuest

The Avengers debuted in 1961, heralding a new age in televised entertainment. Fuest,working closely with director Peter Hammond, helped craft a contemporary look for the

show that would eventually beam mod design into homes around the world. Fuest wasemployed by ABC throughout season one of the popular series and during that period he became interested in directing. Inspired by Hammond as well as Fellini and Fritz Lang, Fuestmade his directorial debut in 1967 with a highly stylized swinging adult comedy called JustLike a Woman (1967). The picture, which he wrote and designed storyboards for, wasframed by some sharp social commentary and visual panache that have become stronglyassociated with The Avengers and would become a staple of Fuest’s work.

Fuest’s wry sense of humor, visible in his art direction as well as his script for Just Like aWoman, didn’t initially garner much critical attention and after making a few commercialsfor television he returned to The Avengers as a director during season six. Despite mixedsuccess, his work displays a keen appreciation of streamlined Art Deco design with Gothictouches. At his best, Fuest was able to repurpose these classic motifs with a pop artsensibility punctuated by bold splashes of color (purples, reds and yellows in particular) and

bright metallics. In British Film Design: A History, Fuest once described his film design process and use of location as allowing characters to “bleed off, and blend into” thelandscapes they inhabited, which is true of all his films. Actors are often displayed as props

presented in elaborate costumes but there is an organic element in Fuest’s creations that keepthem from feeling cold or detached from the ensuing drama. This cohesive quality makes hiswork stand out and apart.

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Just Like a Woman (1967)

In 1970, Fuest began making films again beginning with the disturbing thriller And Soon theDarkness (1970), about two young women on a European holiday that goes very wrong.This was followed by a pictorial adaptation of Wuthering Heights (1970) and finally heturned his attention to writing and directing The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).

The movie is an updated twist on The Phantom of the Opera set in the 1920s with VincentPrice playing Dr. Anton Phibes, a music and theology specialist who was horribly disfiguredin a car accident that killed his beloved wife (an uncredited Caroline Munro). Phibes blames

a team of doctors, that includes Joseph Cotten and Terry-Thomas, for his wife’s unfortunatedeath and sets out to revenge her with help from his attractive assistant, Vulnavia (Virginia

North). Phibe uses the ‘Plagues of Egypt’ as the basis of his retaliation, killing the doctorswith an imaginative array of dangerous devices and mad concoctions including hordes of locusts and rats.

As the screen grabs I’ve compiled illustrate, the Phibes‘ film borrows substantially from TheAvengers and Fuest’s first movie, Just Like a Woman. They all share a similar modernized

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Art Deco aesthetic and wit. Just Like a Woman and Phibes also prominently feature pianosas dramatic devices that even guide some of the action and there are comparable costumesworn by female cast members.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes received enthusiastic reviews and Fuest was asked to helm asequel in 1972. Other films would follow including the unfairly maligned science fictionopus The Final Programme (1973) as well as The Devil’s Rain (1975) and Revenge of theStepford Wives (1980) but much to his frustration, Fuest was given less and less creativecontrol over each production.

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“Movies are not art anymore. They are product. You have to smuggle art intothem.”- Robert Fuest

After completing just nine films and working on a number of television programs, Fuest leftthe movie business and began teaching again. He ultimately attained the artistic freedom hewanted by focusing his attention on painting and becoming an acclaimed artist whose work was displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts.

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Original art by Robert Fuest

Tune into TCM tonight to see Roger Corman introduce Robert Fuest’s baroque and black asnight horror comedy, The Abominable Dr. Phibes beginning at 5 PM PST and 8 PM EST.

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9 Comments | submit9 Responses Robert Fuest & His Abominable Creations

Posted By Flora : May 26, 2016 9:34 pm

I am excited about seeing these films and hearing what Mr. Corman has to say about thesemovies. I’m going to enjoy every chance I have to hear and see what Mr. Corman shares withthe TCM audience.

Posted By Flora : May 26, 2016 9:34 pm

I forgot to mention that these images of the paintings of the latest artist are excellent.

Posted By George : May 27, 2016 2:37 am

Thanks for the info, Kimberly. Whenever I watch one of the Dr. Phibes movies, I wonder what became of Fuest. He seemed to be on the verge of a major directing career — although Iguess helming THE DEVIL’S RAIN (for the mob-owned Bryanston company) would have

been a setback for anyone.

Posted By Gamera2000 : May 27, 2016 2:55 am

I loved the Dr. Phibes films from the first time I saw them on CBS when they used to havethe late night movies. A

Posted By Gamera2000 : May 27, 2016 2:57 am

As a Michael Moorcock fan I remember finally catching up with The Final Programme onvideo back in the early 90′s. Though not completely fateful to Moorcock’s novel, it is afascinating take on the novel.

Posted By artfrankmiami : May 27, 2016 8:11 am

Ahhh got to dig out my DVD of Devil’s Rain…hopefully i’ll remember to tune in tonight,have always loved Dr. Phibes..didn’t know that was Caroline Munro..so I’ve loved her long

before Spy who loved me….met her in 84-85 and she was the sweetest person…very fun tohang around with.

Posted By Bill : May 27, 2016 8:48 am

Phibes is, obviously, note perfect. Impossible to follow up. Price said he would do a secondsequel only if Fuest, whom he described as “an unmade bed”, were involved.

Posted By swac44 : May 27, 2016 3:54 pm

Now I really want to see Just Like a Woman, but the only DVD of it (from the UK) is out of print. Another title to add to my “holy grail” list, I guess.

Posted By swac44 : May 27, 2016 4:08 pm

Sad to say, the first Fuest film I saw was The Devil’s Rain, in butchered form (cut for time, panned & scanned) on The Great Money Movie, the afternoon movie show on Bangor’sWLBZ where they would interrupt the film to phone viewers to see if they’d spotted thesecret word flashed on the screen. It didn’t leave a great impression, but I’d love to watch itagain in it’s proper form, even if most of the impressive cast are just doing glorified cameosto pick up a cheque. I knew of the Phibes films from seeing pictures of Price as the doctor inmonster magazines, but it would be a number of years before I could see those films, notuntil they turned up on laserdisc as it turns out.
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