The Awful Dr. Orlof

Original title: Gritos en la noche

1962
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1h 30m

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Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face.Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face.Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs and tries to use their skin to repair his daughter's fire-scarred face.

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Howard Vernon

Dr. Orlof

Perla Cristal

Arne

Ricardo Valle

Morpho Lodner
(as Richard Valley)

Diana Lorys

Wanda Bronsky…

Conrado San Martín

Inspector Edgar Tanner
(as Conrad Sanmartin)

María Silva

Dany
(as Mary Silvers)

Mara Laso

Irma Gold

Venancio Muro

Jean Rousseau 'Jeannot'

Félix Dafauce

Chief Inspector

Faustino Cornejo

Raymond

Manuel Vázquez

Klein

Juan Antonio Riquelme

Fernando Montes

Malou
(as Fernando C. Montes)

Elena María Tejeiro

Ursula Camila

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6/10

A Good RIp-off of "Les Yeux Sans Visage" with "Frankenstein"

In 1912, five beautiful easy women are kidnapped and the efficient Inspector Tanner (Conrado San Martín), who is engaged of Wanda Bronsky (Diana Lorys), is assigned to the case. The responsible for the abductions is Dr. Orloff (Howard Vernon), a former prison doctor, and his deformed assistant Morpho Lodner (Ricardo Valle), who was a prisoner sentenced to death and revived by Dr. Orloff, that bring the women to the Hartog Castle to remove the skin of his victims to repair the face of his daughter that was burned in a fire. When Wanda decides to help her beloved fiancé to find the criminal, she becomes the next victim of Dr. Orloff. Now Inspector Tanner's last chance to find Dr. Orloff relies on the lead of the drunkard Jeannot (Faustino Cornejo).

"Gritos en la Noche" (a.k.a. "The Awful Dr. Orloff") is one of the best films of director Jesus Franco that I have seen so far. The story combines the story lines of the successful 1960 "Les Yeux Sans Visage" ("Eyes without a Face") with Frankenstein, Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes and the result is good. The cinematography in black and white is great and the acting is decent. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "O Terrível Dr. Orloff" ("The Terrible Dr. Orloff")

Trivia
Jesús Franco: Man playing piano in bar.

Goofs
In the English-dubbed version a female witness said about the perpetrator that "he walked like a robot". The story was set in 1912, and the word "robot" first appeared in a Czech science fiction play in 1921. The writer was Karel Capek.