AN INTERESTING COMPARISON. EL COLECCIONISTA DE CADAVERES

CAULDRON OF BLOOD aka BLIND MAN'S BLUFF

MIL SEXOS TIENE LA NOCHE

EL COLECCIONISTA DE CADAVERES, a Spanish-US coproduction was shot in 1967 by Santos Alcocer (ORGIES OF DR. ORLOFF aka Solo un Ataud) in Southern Spain. Note that the plot point of a sculptor who uses the skeletons of murdered women as armatures (cf MYSTERY OF THE WAS MUSEUM, HOUSE OF WAX, BUCKET OF BLOOD, CRUCIBLE OF TERROR) is the same as Jess Franco's ROTE LIPPEN/TWO UNDERCOVER ANGELS filmed the same year and that it was shot using what appears to be the same villa near Malaga which was the setting of Franco's 1982 thriller MIL SEXOS TIENE LA NOCHE, sometimes utilizing the same camera set ups. An interesting double bill, ultimately in Jess Franco's favor. Thanks to Francesco Cesare for sending an excellent quality DVD-R of EL CASO DE LAS DOS BELLEZAS which is about 10 m longer than the English language version, TWO UNDERCOVER ANGELS and has a different musical score. 

COMING ON DVD IN JUNE 2012 FROM MONDO MACABRO!

I never thought it would happen but MONDO MACABRO has finally put together the Director's Cut of this essential Jess Franco cannibal adventure!

Franco's Spanish voices: DELIA LUNA

The slightly abrasive soprano voice of Adelina Luna Gómez, better known as Delia Luna, was heard in numerous Spanish-dubbed soundtracks produced by Arcofón, Cinearte and Magna, the most frequented sound studios in the career of Jess Franco, in whose long  filmography Luna, who passed away in the late nineties, made numerous incursions over the course of about two decades.

The niece of the noted character actor Manuel Luna, she made her onscreen debut in 1952 and went on to appear in some 18 films over the following decade, almost invariably dubbing herself except for some occasional films whose soundtracks were created in Barcelona. Dark-haired, with a roundish face and a slightly upturned nose, she landed female lead parts in two Antonio Molina vehicles, but was otherwise usually seen in supporting roles, sometimes as nuns. Her career dubbing others started shortly after her screen debut and from 1963 onwards she concentrated almost exclusively on her voice acting, remaining active in the profession until her death c. 1997. In the seventies and eighties, she worked extensively on many TV redubs of classic films whose original Spanish-language soundtracks were unavailable or in poor condition; in this capacity, she was frequently assigned to supply to dub Maureen O’ Hara. Other assignments of hers include several secondary Bond girls (Shirley Eaton, Martine Beswick), some voices for Patty Shepard, the voice of Bárbara Rey whenever Rey herself was not available (including Amando de Ossorio’s El buque maldito), Linda Kelsey in the whole Lou Grant TV show and Linda Grey in the first seasons of Dallas (the role was later taken over by Pilar Gentil, who had dubbed Pilar Cristal in The Awful Dr. Orloff), not to mention what, to many Spaniards, may be her most familiar vocal role on TV, that of Rue McClanahan's character Blanche Devereaux in the sitcom The Golden Girls. To all this one should add occasional jobs involving Anne Bancroft, Claudia Cardinale and Mary Steenburgen, among many other works. 

What follows is a list of several of Delia Luna’s dubbing efforts, including some that may be of interest to readers of the present blog: 

Bibi Andersson in The Seventh Seal

Mary Maude in The House That Screamed (great job)

Imma Ippoliti in Satanik

Samantha Eggar in The Light at the Edge of the World

Marilù Tolo in My Dear Killer

Maria Rohn in Black Beauty

Annalisa Nardi in Murder Mansion

Loreta Tovar in The Return of the Blind Dead

Susan Taff in Curse of the Vampyr

Maria Perschy in Hunchback of the Morgue

Ingrid Garbo in Dracula’s Great Love

Betsabé Ruiz in El espectro del terror

Helga Liné in The Dracula Saga

Susan Taff in Curse of the Vampyr

Patty Shepard in A Man Called Noon

Lone Fleming in A Candle for the Devil

Ewa Aulin in The Legend of Blood Castle

Dianik Zurakowska in The Vampires’ Night Orgy

Lois Chiles in The Great Gatsby

Marcelle Bichette in The Swamp of the Ravens

Julia Saly in Muerte de un quinqui

Bárbara Rey in The Ghost Galleon

Jennifer O'Neill in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud

Maria Marx in Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

Cirsitna Galbó in Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Galbó often dubbed herself but not here)

Anne Francis in Eugenio Martín’s Pancho Villa

Joan Collins in The Cry of the Wolf

Barbara Bouchet in Don’t Torture a Duckling

Kataharine Ross in The Voyage of the Damned

Sandra Mozarowsky in Night of the Seagulls

Lynne Frederick in The Four of the Apocalypse

Susan Strasberg in The Manitou

Patty Duke in The Swarm

Janet Margolin in Last Embrace

Olivia Hussey in Death on the Nile 

Trish Van Devere in The Changeling

Helen Mirren in The Long Good Friday 

Louise Marleau in Alien Contamination

Alexandra Delli Colli in Dr. Butcher M.D.

Jennifer O’Neil in Scanners

Sabrina Siani in Ator, The Fighting Eagle

Paola Senatore in Lenzi’s Eaten Alive

Cinzia Monreale in The Beyond

Dagmar Lassander in House by the Cemetery

Zora Kerova and Cinzia de Ponti in The New York Ripper

Robin Groves in The Nesting

Lorraine de Selle in Cannibal Ferox

Jennifer Ashley in Inseminoid

Maryam D’Abó in Xtro (the theatrical version, not the DVD dubbing)

Ronee Blakley in Nightmare on Elm Street

Barbara Crampton in Re-Animator

Valentina Cortese in The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (not the original theatrical dub but one made for Spanish TV)

Cassandra Peterson in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark

Kelly McGillis in Cat Chaser

Janet Agren in Night of the Sharks

Mary McDonnell in Passion Fish

What follows is a list, possibly incomplete, of Delia Luna’s Jess Franco efforts. It must be said that most of her vocal roles for Franco are in stark contrast with the “wholesome” characters (nuns, nurses, housewives, “good” girls) she would usually play onscreen.

                          Lucía Prado in The Diabolical Dr. Z (1965)

Beni Cardoso in The Girl from Rio (1968)

                                                       
                            Luciana Paluzzi in 99 Women (1968)

Magda the convict (actress unidentified, behind Maria Schell) in 99 Women (1968)

Soledad Miranda in Vampyros Lesbos (1970)

                Mara Lasso in El muerto hace las malestas (1971)

              Eva Garden in La venganza del doctor Mabuse (1971)

               Glenda Allen in Un silencio de tumba (1972)

Inge (actress unidentified) in Los ojos siniestros del doctor Orloff (1973)

              Ada Tauler in Al otro lado del espejo (1973)

                            Evelyne Scott in Night of the Skull (1973)

Alice Arno in Mais qui donc a violé Linda? (1973) (dubbed into Spanish in 1984, for its VHS release)

                     Nadine Pascal in Las chicas de Copacabana (1979)

                       Nadja Gerganoff in Bloody Moon (1981)

                        Raquel Evans in Linda (1981)

                         Andrea Guzón in Sadomania (1981)

                        Analía Ivars in Juego sucio en Casablanca (1984)

                Ana María Espejo in Viaje a Bangkok, atáud incluido (1985)


                    Stéphane Audran in Faceless (1988)



                      Carole Keeper in Fall of the Eagles (1990)



Link to Delia Luna's imdb entry:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526018/

Link to an online list (incomplete) of Delia Luna's vocal filmography:

http://www.eldoblaje.com/datos/Fichaactordoblaje.asp?Id=1595

Delia Luna and Manolo Morán (of Franco's 1960 Labios rojos) in Luis Lucia's Aeropuerto (1953)

Delia Luna (right) and Elena Espejo in Jerónimo Mihura's Maldición gitana (1953)

Delia Luna with Francisco Javier Martín "Blaki" in Fernando Palacios's Marisol rumbo a Río (1963)

They've all done Jess Franco! Delia Luna (far right), probably in the 1980s, at the Arcofón studios, in the company of with three other voice actors: Rosa María Belda, Jesús Nieto and, on the far left, Juan Antonio Castro (Remember him in Amando de Ossorio's Night of the Seagulls? He was Teddy the misfit)


Voice Samples of Delia Luna:

- D.L.'s voice for Soledad Miranda in Vampyros Lesbos:
http://www.4shared.com/music/05JK_F9U/delsoledad.html?

- D.L.'s  voice for Evelyne Scott in Night of the Skull:
http://www.4shared.com/music/nQupgd9H/delia_luna3.html?

- D.L.'s voice for Raquel Evans in Linda:
http://www.4shared.com/music/y_YU7dWT/delraquel.html?

- D.L.'s voice for Susan Taff in José María Elorrieta's Curse of the Vampyr:
http://www.4shared.com/music/3H_cj7PI/delia_luna.html?



Text by Nzoog Wahrlfhehen