Are His Powers More Than Magic?
Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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- Wuchakon TMDB · Sep 20256/10
**_What if Rasputin wormed his way into a political family in the modern day?_** A senator and his wife in SoCal (David Hemmings and Carmen Duncan) are puzzled by the sudden appearance of a peculiar man (Robert Powell) who seems to have the power to heal their son suffering from leukemia. Broderick Crawford is on hand as a looming political kingpin. Shot in 1979, "Harlequin" debuted in Australia in 1980, but didn’t make it to America until 1983-84. It was inspired by Grigori Rasputin, the mystic and faith healer who influenced the imperial family in Saint Petersburg of prerevolutionary Russia from 1906 till his assassination in late 1916. This was meshed with the harlequin from Italian theater. What makes the flick interesting is that the eponymous character is portrayed by the actor who played Jesus Christ in the television epic “Jesus of Nazareth” a few years earlier. Interestingly, David Bowie was originally intended for the challenging role. While shot in Perth, producers disguised this fact to boost international sales, making the setting of the story America with references to American states and the political system thereof. This was helped by the inclusion of British and Am
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Cast
- Robert PowellGregory Wolfe
- David HemmingsNick Rast
- Carmen DuncanSandra Rast
- Broderick CrawfordDoc Wheelan
- Gus MercurioMr. Bergier
- Alan CassellMr. Porter
- Mark SpainAlex Rast
- Alyson BestAlice
- Sean MyersBenny Lucas
- Mary SimpsonZoe Cayce
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- Simon WincerDirector
- Everett De RocheScreenplay
- Gary HansenDirector of Photography
- Brian MayOriginal Music Composer
- Adrian CarrEditor
- Antony I. GinnaneProducer
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