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10 December 1968 (USA)
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A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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Great film! Like a Zen Koan
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael Caine | ... | Nicholas Urfe |
 | Anthony Quinn | ... | Maurice Conchis |
 | Candice Bergen | ... | Lily |
 | Anna Karina | ... | Anne |
| Paul Stassino | ... | Meli |
| Julian Glover | ... | Anton |
| Takis Emmanuel | ... | Kapetan |
| George Pastell | ... | Andreas |
| Danièle Noël | ... | Soula |
| Jerome Willis | ... | German Officer |
| Ethel Farrugia | ... | Maria |
| Andreas Malandrinos | ... | Goatherd |
| George Kafkaris | ... | 2nd Partisan |
| Anthony Newlands | ... | Party Host |
| Stack Constantino | ... | 3rd Partisan |
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The God Game (UK) (working title)
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117 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Average Shot Length = ~5.9 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~5.8 seconds.
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Nicholas Urfe:
This thing, it's like being halfway through a book. You can't just throw it in the dustbin.
Anne: So you throw me instead?
Nicholas Urfe: I'm trying to be honest.
Anne: Honest? It's just like in London. You haven't changed. I'll always be that French girl who slept around. A human boomerang. Throw her away and she'll always come back for another week of duty-free sex.
Nicholas Urfe: That's below the belt!
Anne: Your natural territory.
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Anne: So you throw me instead?
Nicholas Urfe: I'm trying to be honest.
Anne: Honest? It's just like in London. You haven't changed. I'll always be that French girl who slept around. A human boomerang. Throw her away and she'll always come back for another week of duty-free sex.
Nicholas Urfe: That's below the belt!
Anne: Your natural territory.
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I love this movie. I remember seeing it on the big screen when it first came out and how heightened my state of awareness was on leaving the theater. I've read other professional reviews other than the one by Leonard Maltin that thought it was excellent. For those who find it confusing, perhaps you've missed the whole point of the film itself which seeks to push you to a state of awareness beyond your rational thinking mind. Like a zen koan. Do you remember the lines that Nicholas reads from the book he finds which are from T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding"?
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
Does anyone know where I could get a video tape of this fine film or where I could rent it?
P.S. The film "The Game" which failed miserably in it's attempt to rip off the premise of this film is horrible.