Directed by:
Jack GoldScreenplay:
John BrileyCinematography:
Arthur IbbetsonComposer:
Michael J. LewisCast:
Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Alan Badel, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jeremy Brett, Michael Hordern, Gordon Jackson, Michael Byrne (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
John Morlar (Richard Burton), a well-known novelist, is savagely attached in his London flat. Barely alive, he is taken to hospital. Detective Brunel (Lino Ventura) is assigned to the case. He comes across Morlar's journal, which leads him to a mysterious women named Zonfeld (Lee Remick) who is Morlar's doctor. Zonfeld discloses that her patient is obsessed. He feels he bears an awesome telekinetic power - the power to "will" destruction and death. He can make airplanes crash, buildings crumble, start raging fires and unleash mighty floods. He believes he possesses the gift of evil, and dangerously demonstrates his power. What at first seems preposterous, soon becomes sickeningly real. Morlar is able to wreak havoc at will. Brunel desperately wants to stop the next tragedy, but can he kill this man? If released from his mortal confines, how far can the power of his mind roam? (Network)
(more)Cast
Richard Burton
UK
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Lino Ventura
Italy
Best movies:
Marie-October (1959)
Witness in the City (1959)
Les Misérables (1982)
Lee Remick
USA
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
The Omen (1976)
Harry Andrews
UK
Best movies:
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The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Alan Badel
UK
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
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The Medusa Touch (1978)
Marie-Christine Barrault
France
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
L'Enfant des loups (1991) (TV movie)
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Jeremy Brett
UK
Best movies:
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The Medusa Touch (1978)
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Michael Hordern
UK
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
Gordon Jackson
UK
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Michael Byrne
UK
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Braveheart (1995)
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Derek Jacobi
UK
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The King's Speech (2010)
Robert Flemyng
UK
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Battle of Britain (1969)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Philip Stone
UK
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Barry Lyndon (1975)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Gordon Honeycombe
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
The Fourth Protocol (1987)
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Robert Lang
UK
Best movies:
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Mark Jones
UK
Best movies:
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Jennifer Jayne
UK
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
The Jigsaw Man (1983)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
Frances Tomelty
UK
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
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Shaw Taylor
UK
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
X the Unknown (1956)
Victor Windig
UK
Best movies:
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