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- For the episode, see MST3K 901 - The Projected Man.
The Projected Man is a 1966 British science-fiction/horror film that was directed by Ian Curteis, with additional directing by producer John Croydon.
Plot[]
In England, Dr. Paul Steiner and Dr. Christopher Mitchell have nearly perfected a projection device that enables them to transmit any object within a few miles of the machine. Dr. Patricia Hill arrives and helps them fix the error that was preventing the process from working with living tissue. Dr. Blanchard, Steiner's boss, is being blackmailed by Mr. Latham, who wants credit for Steiner's discovery. He forces Blanchard to demand Steiner to give a premature presentation to Professor Lembach.
Steiner, Mitchell, and Hill feel they are ready to present, but at the event, Blanchard secretly sabotages the machine with acid, causing an explosion. The funding for Steiner's project is rescinded.
Mitchell later discovers that the device has been tampered with. Steiner goes to Blanchard's house, where he presents the men with the evidence that his machine was sabotaged, and Lembach agrees to give him another chance. Steiner decides to try to project himself to Lembach's house, and he begins the procedure with help from his secretary Sheila.
Mitchell and Hill return to the laboratory and try to convince Sheila to stop the projection, but she is unfamiliar with the device and inadvertently projects Steiner somewhere else. He materializes at a construction site, where encounters some thieves who are attempting to break into a furrier's. An error in the projection has given Steiner the ability to kill people by touching them, and has mutilated one half of his body. Steiner kills the criminals, then enters a store where he steals a pair of rubber gloves and a coat. He then finds Latham and kills him. By this time, police Inspector Davis has discovered the bodies of the thieves and becomes determined to stop the mysterious killer.
Steiner abducts Sheila and interrogates her in her apartment. She reveals that it was Blanchard and Latham who plotted against him, angering Steiner. Steiner sets Sheila's apartment on fire with her inside and goes to ambush Blanchard in his home. Sheila escapes the fire.
Blanchard returns to his home, where he is killed by Steiner. Meanwhile, Davis has examined Latham's body and realizes that the electric marks on Latham were the same as the thieves at the construction site. Steiner goes Hill's house, where he finds her and Mitchell. Steiner demands that they tell him where he can find more electricity, which he now needs to survive. Hill and Mitchell try to convince him to return to the laboratory so they can try reversing the projection, but Steiner rebuffs them and leaves to find a power plant.
Davis, Hill, and Mitchell find him at the power plant. Davis tries to kill Steiner but bullets do not harm him. Dr. Hill again tries to persuade Steiner to return to the laboratory. Steiner goes with them, but when they arrive at the lab, he begins destroying things and sets the laboratory on fire. Steiner is hit by the projection device's laser, disintegrating him as the fire rages. The others apparently escape.
Cast[]
- Mary Peach as Dr. Patricia Hill
- Bryant Haliday as Dr. Paul Steiner
- Norman Wooland as Dr. Blanchard
- Ronald Allen as Dr. Christopher Mitchell
- Derrick De Marney as Lathem
- Gerard Heinz as Professor Lembach
- Tracey Crisp as Sheila
- Derek Farr as Inspector Davis
Notes[]
- London's Battersea Power Station, famous for appearing on the cover of the Pink Floyd album Animals, can be seen in this film.
- The Universal Studios logo in the print of the film used by MST3K uses the music theme from the American International Pictures logo (composed by Les Baxter) from 1960 to 1963, despite the latter studio not being involved with this film's production. It is absent during the logo on the Blu-ray release of the film, which uses the opening title music instead.
MST3K Connections[]
- Bryant Haliday also portrayed The Great Vorelli in Devil Doll.
- Sam Kydd (Harry Slinger) also portrayed the barman in Moon Zero Two.
- Alf Joint (security man) also portrayed the Overseer in Cosmic Princess.
- Executive producer Gerald A. Fernback was also executive producer for Devil Doll.
- Producer Richard Gordon was also executive producer for Devil Doll.
Critical Response[]
- Leonard Maltin wrote: "Two stars ... Not bad but unoriginal."[1]
References[]
- ↑ Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide, 2015 Edition