Pontianak Gua Musang (1964) [Malasia]

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Título: Pontianak Gua Musang Título V.O: The Vampire in the Cave Director: B. Narayan Rao Año/País: 1964 / Singapur, Malasia Duración: 122 minutos Género: Terror Reparto: Suraya, Malik Selamat, Ghazali Sumantri, Ummi Kalthoum Enlaces: Ficha de: aguijon

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This is the fifth, and last, of the "classic" Pontianak movies made from 1956 to 1964 by Cathay Keris Films Studios. Two others, "Anak Pontianak" and "Pusaka Pontianak" (respectively 1958 and 1964), both directed by Ramon Estella, were produced by the rival studio, Malay Film Productions, later know as Shaw Brothers.
Like the three first titles in the Cathay Keris series ("Pontianak", 1956; "Dendam Pontianak", 1957; and "Sumpah Pontianak", 1958), "Pontianak Gua Musang" was directed by Indian filmaker B.N. Rao (Balkrishna Narayan Rao), who made some twenty films - most of them in the fantasy / horror genre - in Malaysia before returning to India. (The fourth installment in the Cathay Keris series, "Pontianak Kembali" was curiously directed by Ramon Estella, who made the two "Pontianak" movies of Malay Film Productions as mentioned above).
It would have been logical to share the series chronologically, but unfortunately the numbers 1, 2, and 4 are not available on video at this moment - and some sources even mention them as "lost".
The two Malay Films Productions / Shaw Brothers titles are available and I'll share them soon.
Other "Pontianak" movies were made later, like the 1975's "Pontianak" directed by Roger Sutton, and some quite recent others.

As you can think, subtitles are not available for any of these elusive Malay films. Sorry !

PONTIANAK GUA MUSANG (The Vampire in the Cave)
Singapore / Malaysia 1964
A Cathay-Keris Production, B&W
Director : B.N. RAO
Story : Abdul Razak / Dialogues : Shariff Medan
Screenplay : Nach Ahnas
Director of Photography : Wong Wah
Art Directors : J.S. Anthony, K. Rajoo
Music by Zubir Said
Editors : P.V. Jonn, Ng Ching Liak

[Alexei]

...llega un momento en la vida de un cinéfilo en la que tiene que verse alguna película sin subtítulos y sin entender ni papa de lo que dicen 

Hago mía la frase de aguijon para esta ocasión (si hasta rima y todo...).

Mil gracias  .

[Itto Ogami]

Muchas gracias. Ahora solo me queda buscar a una prostituta malaya y pagarle por su tiempo para que doble esta película (y eso que tuve un compañero de piso malayo en tierras irlandesas, pero ya se sabe, los malayos nunca están cuando uno los necesita...)