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Movie
Ghost Story
Synopsis
This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman), who gather in each other's drawing rooms each winter to sip cognac and spin elaborate ghost stories. The four men also share a dark secret far more unsettling than fiction -- a secret which has literally come back to haunt them, as well as their own adult offspring. Each man is visited by a hideous specter bearing the likeness of a young woman (Alice Krige) they accidentally killed 50 years ago when spurning her mischievous sexual advances.
Cast
- Fred Astaire
- Melvyn Douglas
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- John Houseman
- Craig Wasson
- Alice Krige
- Jacqueline Brookes
- Patricia Neal
- Miguel Fernandes
- Lance Holcomb
- Mark Chamberlin
- Tim Choate
- Kurt Johnson
- Ken Olin
- Brad Sullivan
- Guy Boyd
- Robert Burr
- Helena Carroll
- Robin Curtis
- Breon Gorman
- Cagle D. Green
- Kyra Carleton
- James Greene
- Ruth Hunt
- Virginia P. Bingham
- Deborah Offner
- Russell Bletzer
- Alfred Curven
- Michael O'Neill
- William F. Conway
- Terrance Mario Carnes
- Hugh Hires
- Raymond J. Quinn
- Barbara von Zastrow
- Edward F. Dillon
- Alvin W. Fretz
- Peter Straub
- Tom Rolf
- Dick Smith
- Lawrence D. Cohen
- Jack Cardiff
- Larry Cohen
- Jim Alexander
- Douglas Green
- Norman Newberry
- Albert J. Whitlock
- May Routh
- Ronald G. Smith