Movie
The Medusa Touch
Mystery & suspense film with a runtime of 110 minutes, released in 1977. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
In The Medusa Touch Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a mysterious series of disasters. The uncanny events begin happening shortly after writer John Morlar (Richard Burton) was hit over the head by an unknown intruder and rendered comatose. Slowly, Brunel begins to connect the strange things that are happening in the world with the deranged dreams of the comatose Morlar. He gets the final clue he needs from Morlar's reluctant psychiatrist, Dr. Zonfield (Lee Remick), who holds the key to Morlar's past. Once it is discovered that Morlar has the ability to think horrible thoughts and make them come true, Brunel and Zonfield must take off with dispatch to a London cathedral, where the Queen is scheduled to make an appearance -- but Morlar is thinking about the cathedral, and it is crumbling fast. Well-liked in Britain, this movie did not do well in the U.S.
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Cast
- Richard Burton
- Lino Ventura
- Lee Remick
- Harry Andrews
- Marie-Christine Barrault
- Michael Hordern
- Derek Jacobi
- Robert Lang
- Jeremy Brett
- Alan Badel
- Michael Byrne
- Gordon Jackson
- Robert Flemyng
- Norman Bird
- Jennifer Jayne
- Philip Stone
- Maurice O'Connell
- Avril Elgar
- John Normington
- Malcolm Tierney
- James Hazeldine
- Mark Jones
- Wendy Gifford
- Gordon Honeycombe
- Frances Tomelty
- Brook Williams
- Victor Winding
- Anthony Blackett
- John Flanagan
- Denyse Alexander
- Stanley Lebor
- George Innes
- Ian Marter
- Cornelius Bowe
- Adam Bridges
- Denise Alexander
- Joseph Clark
- Christopher Burgess
- Matthew Long
- Earl Rhodes
- Colin Rix
- Arnon Milchan
- Ian Crafford
- Anne V. Coates
- Lew Grade
- Jack Gold
- John Briley
- Michael J. Lewis
- Peter Mullins
- Denis Holt
- Arthur Ibbetson
- Elliott Kastner
