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The Exorcist III
Why this pick
Blatty again blends mordant humour, spiritual dread and philosophical dialogue, building toward an intensely unsettling confrontation beneath an outwardly procedural surface.
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MOVIE1980 1h 58m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Sometime in the 1970s, "toward the end of the War in Vietnam", a large castle is used by the US government as an insane asylum for military personnel. Among the many patients there is a former astronaut, Billy Cutshaw, who aborted a moon launch and was dragged screaming from the capsule, suffering from an apparent mental breakdown.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ed Flanders
Col. Richard Fell
Neville Brand
Maj. Marvin Groper
Richard Lynch
2nd Cyclist (Richard)
Jason Miller
Lt. Frankie Reno
Scott Wilson
Capt. Billy Cutshaw
William Peter Blatty
Dr. Fromme
George DiCenzo
Capt. Fairbanks
Stacy Keach
Col. Vincent Kane