The Medusa Touch (1978)
- Starring:
- Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, (more)
- Director(s):
- Jack Gold
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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In The Medusa Touch Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a mysterious series of disasters. The uncanny events begin happening shortly after writer John Morlar (Richard Burton) was hit over the head by an unknown intruder and rendered comatose. Slowly, Brunel begins to connect the strange things that are happening in the world with the deranged dreams of the comatose Morlar. He gets the final clue he needs from Morlar's reluctant psychiatrist, Dr. Zonfield (Lee Remick), who holds the key to Morlar's past. Once it is discovered that Morlar has the ability to think horrible thoughts and make them come true, Brunel and Zonfield must take off with dispatch to a London cathedral, where the Queen is scheduled to make an appearance -- but Morlar is thinking about the cathedral, and it is crumbling fast. Well-liked in Britain, this movie did not do well in the U.S. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Richard Burton - John Morlar
- Lee Remick - Dr. Zonfield
- Marie-Christine Barrault - Patricia Morlar
- Gordon Jackson - Dr.Johnson
- Michael Byrne - Duff
- Robert Lang - Pennington
- Joseph Clark - 14 Year Old Morlar
- Malcolm Tierney - Deacon
- Frances Tomelty - Nanny
- Colin Rix - Engineer
- Maurice O'Connell - Sgt. Robbins
- Ian Marter - Detective in Street
- Victor Winding - Senior Police Officer
- Avril Elgar - Mrs. Pennington
- Stanley Lebor - Police Doctor
- George Innes - Van Driver
- James Hazeldine - Lovelass
- Alan Badel - Barrister
- Lino Ventura - Insp. Brunel
- Harry Andrews - Assistant Commissioner
- Michael Hordern - Atropos, the Fortune Teller
- Derek Jacobi - Townley, the Publisher
- Jeremy Brett - Edward Parrish
- Denise Alexander - Hospital Doctor
- Robert Flemyng - Judge McKinley
- Brook Williams - Male Nurse
- Philip Stone - Dean
- Earl Rhodes - Parson
- John Normington - Schoolmaster
- Mark Jones - Sgt. Hughes
- Wendy Gifford - Receptionist
- Matthew Long - Copilot
- Jennifer Jayne - Mother
- Gordon Honeycombe - TV Newscaster
- John Flanagan - Police Constable
- Norman Bird - Father
- Director(s):
- Jack Gold
- Writer(s):
- John Briley, Jack Gold
- Producer(s):
- Lew Grade, Elliott Kastner, Arnon Milchan
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Violence)
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