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''The Abominable Dr. Phibes'' is a 1971 British horror film starring American actors Vincent Price and Joseph Cotten.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Abominable Dr. Phibes )〕 Its art deco sets, dark humour and performance by Price have made the film and its sequel ''Dr. Phibes Rises Again'' cult classics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Abominable Dr. Phibes )〕 The movie also features British actor and comedian Terry-Thomas and Welsh actor Hugh Griffith with a cameo appearance by future Bond girl Caroline Munro.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Abominable Dr Phibes )〕 The screenplay was written by James Whiton and William Goldstein and the 93 minute feature film was directed by Robert Fuest.〔 In the storyline the title character, Phibes, blames the medical team that attended to his wife for her death four years prior and sets out to exact vengeance on each one.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Abominable Doctor Phibes - 1970 )〕 Phibes is inspired in his murderous spree by the Ten Plagues of Egypt from the Old Testament.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - Review - AllMovie )〕 ==Plot== Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) was an expert in theology and music who was supposedly killed in a car crash in 1921, shortly after the death of his beloved wife, Victoria, during an operation. However, he survived the crash, horribly scarred by the accident and left unable to speak, forcing him to remake his face with prosthetics and use his knowledge of acoustics to regain his voice. Resurfacing in 1925, Phibes believes that his wife died a victim of incompetent doctors, and begins elaborate plans to kill them. Phibes begins his quest for vengeance with the help of his beautiful and silent female assistant Vulnavia (Virginia North), using the ten plagues of Egypt as a basis, wearing an amulet with Hebrew letters corresponding with the appropriate plagues as he commits the murders. After three doctors are killed, Inspector Trout (Peter Jeffrey), a detective from Scotland Yard, learns that they had all worked together under the direction of Dr. Vesalius (Joseph Cotten), who reveals that all of the deceased had been on his team in Victoria's case, as well as four other doctors and a nurse. When another murder is reported, Trout suspects Phibes is alive, and he and Vesalius go to the Phibes mausoleum at Highgate Cemetery. They find ashes in a box in Phibes' coffin, which Trout believes are the remains of Phibes' chauffeur; Victoria's coffin is empty. Despite all of the police's best efforts, Phibes is able to kill the remaining doctors and the nurse. Reserving the final punishment for Dr. Vesalius, he kidnaps the doctor's son Lem, then calls Vesalius and tells him to come alone to his mansion on Maldene Square if he wants to save his son's life. Despite Trout's protests, Vesalius knocks the inspector unconscious and immediately races to Phibes' mansion, where he confronts the mad doctor. Phibes has placed Vesalius' son under anesthesia and prepared him for surgery; a small key implanted near the boy's heart will unlock his restraints, but Vesalius must perform the surgery within six minutes (the same amount of time Victoria was on the operating table before her death) to get the key before acid from a container above Lem's head falls and destroys his face. Vesalius succeeds and moves the table out of the way; Vulnavia, backing away from the police, is sprayed with the acid instead. Convinced he has accomplished his vendetta, Phibes retreats to the basement of his house to lie in the stone sarcophagus containing the embalmed body of his wife. He drains out his own blood and replaces it with embalming fluid as the coffin's inlaid stone lid slides into place, concealing them both in darkness. Trout and the police arrive and discover that Phibes has mysteriously disappeared. Trout and Vesalius recall that the "final curse" was darkness, and they speculate that they will encounter Phibes again. ;The Ten Plagues of Egypt Dr. Phibes takes his inspiration for the murders from the Old Testament, the Ten plagues of Egypt. The plagues described in the movie differ slightly from the Biblical account: # Boils: Prof. Thornton is stung to death by bees. (Not shown, only referred to during the film) # Bats: Dr. Dunwoody is mauled to death by bats. (This one is not a Biblical plague but may be related to the plague of lice or gnats.) # Frogs: Dr. Hargreaves (who is not a surgeon but a psychiatrist) has his head crushed by a mechanical mask of a frog. # Blood: Dr. Longstreet has all the blood drained out of his body. (The actual Biblical plague, first in the Biblical account itself, involved ''water'' being transformed INTO blood.) # Hail: Dr. Hedgepath is frozen to death by a machine spewing ice # Rats: Dr. Kitaj crashes his plane when attacked by rats. (This is not a Biblical plague but may be related to the plague of flies.) # Beasts: Dr. Whitcombe is impaled by a brass unicorn head. # Locusts: Nurse Allen is eaten by locusts. # Death of the first born: Phibes kidnaps and attempts to kill Dr. Vesalius's son Lem. (This is the final plague in the Biblical account.) # Darkness: At the ambiguous ending of the film, Phibes drains the blood from his own body while injecting embalming fluid, apparently joining his wife in death. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Abominable Dr. Phibes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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