The Medusa Touch (1978)
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col 109m
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura
Synopsis:
A police inspector investigates a series of disasters traceable to a man who has only to look askance at you before mayhem ensues.
Review:
Silly but well wrought thriller of the uncanny along the lines of The Omen and The Fury. Unlike those it rattles breathlessly along, with past and present skilfully intercut to form a continuous narrative. Burton does service as the aging thesp at the centre of the calamities, and has more of those distinctive lines that sound as though they have been uttered over a drinks cabinet. Ventura appears to be reprising his bit from Illustrious Corpses as the mystified policeman. Great entertainment, with exceptional special effects for a non-Hollywood production, and an ending that is right on the nail.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col 109m
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura
Synopsis:
A police inspector investigates a series of disasters traceable to a man who has only to look askance at you before mayhem ensues.
Review:
Silly but well wrought thriller of the uncanny along the lines of The Omen and The Fury. Unlike those it rattles breathlessly along, with past and present skilfully intercut to form a continuous narrative. Burton does service as the aging thesp at the centre of the calamities, and has more of those distinctive lines that sound as though they have been uttered over a drinks cabinet. Ventura appears to be reprising his bit from Illustrious Corpses as the mystified policeman. Great entertainment, with exceptional special effects for a non-Hollywood production, and an ending that is right on the nail.
Country: GB/FR
Technical: col 109m
Director: Jack Gold
Cast: Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura
Synopsis:
A police inspector investigates a series of disasters traceable to a man who has only to look askance at you before mayhem ensues.
Review:
Silly but well wrought thriller of the uncanny along the lines of The Omen and The Fury. Unlike those it rattles breathlessly along, with past and present skilfully intercut to form a continuous narrative. Burton does service as the aging thesp at the centre of the calamities, and has more of those distinctive lines that sound as though they have been uttered over a drinks cabinet. Ventura appears to be reprising his bit from Illustrious Corpses as the mystified policeman. Great entertainment, with exceptional special effects for a non-Hollywood production, and an ending that is right on the nail.