Alain Delon, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda
An irresistible and guilty pleasure, this anthology based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe is a rare opportunity to see three of the biggest names in 1960s European film direction working in the short fo...( read more
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Directed by: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim
Release Date: July 23, 1969
DVD Release Date: February 4, 1999
Stats: 99 reviews
european filmmakers paid homage to the great Edgar Allan Poe. Fellini's Toby Dammit, with a great performance by a deranged Terence Stamp, is the best of them all. excellent feminine presence by the two sexy Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot.
Despite the excellent screen play (Poe's influence no doubt) and intriguing plot from each of these established individuals, it still remains a mediocre contribution to cinema - though as far as I'm concerned, Stamp delivers one of his best performances.
3 Edgar Allen Poe tales, I haven't read any of them:
Roger Vadim's entry which he also scripted seems like it was sourced from a twelve-page tale and extended to forty minutes. Easily the least of the series, but features Jane Fonda during her hottie '60s era. ...( read more)
I will NOT see a Movie that has this Commie, Traitor, BITCH in it.
They don't have a LOW enough rating for her.
She can rot in the Hanoi Hilton, for what she did to Our troops during Vietnam.
BURN BITCH, BURN
This is strange collection of Poe tales I got to catch on TCM. All the writing is in English, with English actors, speaking in English, but is dubbed in French. OK. The doppelganger story was the most interesting to me, followed by the Fonda one, who is just breathtakingly al...( read more)
I confess to owning this but not having watched Vadim's or Malle's segments. I'm giving five stars to 'Toby Dammit'. Such a playful little short horror film
stories by E. ALLAN POE , directed by three directors , the two of the are great , and the third { Vadim } who also is big director , but takes always the easy path ..
a rare meeting ...
It's hard to rate a film of three shorts shot by different directors. I feel Vadim's is the weakest of the bunch; Fellini's is definitely the most bizarre, abstract, and dreamlike; and Malle's is the clear winner and closer to a Poe tale--lots of intrigue, doppelgangers, Alain De...( read more)
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