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The Ninth Gate
Why this pick
A morally compromised investigator follows an occult trail through rare books, accumulating menace, ambiguity and elegant dread rather than conventional scares.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1987 1h 53m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1955, Harry Angel, a New York City private investigator, is contracted by a man named Louis Cyphre to track down John Liebling, a crooner known as "Johnny Favorite" who suffered severe Major trauma resulting from injuries he received in World War II. Favorite's incapacity disrupted a contract with Cyphre regarding unspecified collateral, and Cyphre believes that a private upstate hospital where Favorite was receiving radical psychiatric treatment for shell shock has falsified records. Angel goes to the hospital and discovers that the records showing Favorite's transfer were indeed falsified by a physician named Albert Fowler. After Angel breaks into his home, Fowler admits that years ago he was bribed by a man and woman, so that the two could abscond with the disfigured Favorite. Believing that Fowler is still withholding information, Angel locks him in his bedroom. The next morning, he finds the doctor murdered.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Mickey Rourke
Harry Angel
Robert De Niro
Louis Cyphre
Charlotte Rampling
Margaret Krusemark
Lisa Bonet
Epiphany Proudfoot
Stocker Fontelieu
Ethan Krusemark
Brownie McGhee
Toots Sweet
Michael Higgins
Doctor Fowler
Kathleen Wilhoite
Nurse