Man in the Shadow (1957 American film) Sadler's badge to him. The movie was originally called "Pay the Devil". It was Jeff Chandler's last film under his exclusive deal with Universal. The part of Virgil Renchler was originally going to be played by Robert Middleton but agents from the William Morris Agency suggested Orson Welles, who badly needed the money to pay back taxes. It was his first Western. During the course of making the film, Welles rewrote sections of the script. He also formed a relationship with Albert Zugsmith who produced Welles' next movie as director, "Touch of Evil" (1958). Filming started October 1956. Director Jack
The Fly (1958 film) saying, decades later, "I thought THE FLY was a wonderful film – entertaining and great fun." American Film Institute Lists The film spawned two sequels, "Return of the Fly" in 1959 and "Curse of the Fly" in 1965. There was also a remake of the same name in 1986 directed by David Cronenberg, which itself had a sequel, 1989's "The Fly II". The success of the film encouraged Lippert to hire Clavell to make his directorial debut with "Five Gates to Hell" (1959). The Fly (1958 film) The Fly is a 1958 American science fiction-horror film produced and directed by