what film is this????

Question

its quite old, french or italian i think (foreign language anyway) a little village has a new phone box put in and this pompos guy wants to be the first to use it, the door sticks fast and he cant get out, people try everything to get him out, eventually the phone company is called and the phone box with the man inside it is loaded on to the back of a truck and he is taken through the towns eventually seeing another guy in a phone box on the back of another truck. the truck finally comes to a cave in a mountain and the phone box is unloaded and when the guy looks around there are loads of phone boxes with dead and dying people in them!! this film freaked me out and if i hadnt saw it with my dad id think i dreamt it!! but ive never heard mention of it since. if you dont know the film can you suggest a website that might know? thanks for reading this enormously long question! cheers!

Answer 1

It might be the Spanish film 'La Cabina' although the plot sounds slightly different:
This short surreal Spanish film directed by Antonio Mercero is one of those films that you will never forget. The story is simple. A man (played by José Luis López Vázquez) takes his young son to school. On the way home he sees a telephone box with its door slightly ajar, as if it's a Venus fly trap, waiting to snare its victims. He enters the booth and tries to make a call, but he finds the phone is out of order.

When the man entered, the door closed behind him, he tries to open it, he cannot. He struggles inside and tries everything to get out. He shouts at passers-by, who glare at the poor man. They are helpless, too. Then a fireman gets a sledgehammer, and just has he attempts to hit the glass, a phone company truck appears with four men in it, honking its horn as if to say this man is ours, we have caught him.

They then put the telephone box on the back of the truck with the man still inside. They take him on a journey through the streets. While stopped at traffic lights, the man looks at the side and sees another man trapped in a telephone box on the back of a truck, just like him. The journey reaches its conclusion as the truck enters a huge underground factory complex. Inside the building the terror is revealed, as rows and rows of telephone boxes are lined up, each with a dead person inside; one has strangled himself with the phone cord. The man knows his fate is sealed and panic sets in.

The end shot is of the phone company men cleaning the phone box and putting it back in the same location and opening its door slightly ajar again.

I have seen another version which is more like the one you describe with a pompous man in a suit - but that was an American film. The most recent film revolving around a phone box was the 2002 film 'Phone Booth'.

Answer 2

It was easy to find on the Internet Movie Data Base, IMDB
Its called La Cabina 1972, Spanish
Its also known as the Phone Box or Telephone Box for English release.
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Answer 3

Somewhere I have a video of 'La Cabina' the Spanish film lianhua is talking about. I've not watched it for ages but I remember it's quite short. I taped it in the 1980's. There is a link to it below

Answer 4

wow! I guess that if you run a search for phone booth and 1960 film it should come up . I remember this one . But I thought the language was french. Sorry the name is not coming off my tongue. I read this some question and that film came into view but i sorry i donot recall the name.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Its called 'The Telephone Kiosk' I think. Its fantastic isn't it! Its French. I can't remember the directors name though. He made one about a balloon as well.

Answer 7

it was called the telephone kiosk,,,french....it was a pretty good film with a very unusual ending...i last saw that in the 70's good memory you have there

Answer 8

It's called "Prequel to Doctor Who"

Answer 9

This isn't the exact film you mention but it is a variation of it.

http://www.wayney.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/lacabina.htm

Answer 10

it's not French

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