A film of intense perversity - the madness of the mind.
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
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- rogercoon TMDB · Dec 20206/10
I remember seeing this when it first came out (1978) and thinking it a bit overblown. Just watched it again (2020) after it was featured in a list of films containing an English cricket match (a short list; The Go Between from the same period is another one, also with Alan Bates in a similar role) It now seems a bit better than I remembered despite some inconsistencies and plot holes. Alan Bates, for all his brooding lumbering around, never quite pulls off the surreal menace that the role of Crossley, the man with The Shout That Can Kill, demands. John Hurt as Anthony the philandering cuckold composer, seems unbelievably weak in the face of Crossley's invasion of his life, but that's what the role as written demands. Tim Curry as Robert Graves (not the real one!) listens to Crossley's tale with suitable wide-eyed innocence in the hut as they are scoring the locals versus loonies cricket match at the asylum. The cast features many well known English actors of the period, including Susannah York getting her nipples out as usual and a young Jim Broadbent ripping his kit off to prance about in his pants in the thunderstorm that terminates the match, and the film. The Devon locations ar
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Cast
- Alan BatesCharles Crossley
- Susannah YorkRachel Fielding
- John HurtAnthony Fielding
- Robert StephensChief Medical Officer
- Tim CurryRobert Graves
- Julian HoughVicar
- Carol DrinkwaterCobbler's Wife
- John ReesInspector
- Jim BroadbentFielder in Cowpat
- Susan WooldridgeHarriet
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- Jerzy SkolimowskiDirector
- Michael AustinScreenplay
- Jerzy SkolimowskiScreenplay
- Mike MolloyDirector of Photography
- Tony BanksOriginal Music Composer
- Mike RutherfordOriginal Music Composer
- Barrie VinceEditor
- Jeremy ThomasProducer
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