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User Rating:
6.9/10   222 votes
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Director:
Paul Wendkos
Writer:
David Karp (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 September 1970 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Plot:
A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him. | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination more
User Comments:
A factor in the development of my personality? more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Glenn Ford ... Prof. Andrew 'Andy' Patterson
Rosemary Forsyth ... Vivian Masters Patterson
Dean Jagger ... Chad Harmon
Maurice Evans ... Harry Masters
Will Geer ... Mike Patterson
Eduard Franz ... Dr. Konstantin Horvathy

William Conrad ... Bart Harris
Robert Pine ... Phillip Dunning

William Smithers ... Dr. Jerry Fielder
Logan Field ... Thaddeus Burns

Dabney Coleman ... Agent Shephard
Scott Graham ... Weber
James McEachin ... Police Detective
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Not Rated

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Spoofs "The Joe Pyne Show" (1965) more

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26 out of 27 people found the following comment useful:-
A factor in the development of my personality?, 30 May 2002
10/10
Author: aarthur from Bay Area, CA

I saw this only once -- when it came out when I was ten years old. And I've never forgotten it. To this day I think this is probably the best made-for-TV movie ever.

Being so young when I saw it I'm sure I missed some subtleties, but nevertheless I knew something really wrong and conspiratorial was going on -- it was my first major fictional encounter with overwhelming paranoia and gross injustice, and it has stayed with me my entire life. It may even have been a factor in shaping my detestation of unjustified authority and power elites. I felt such profound, empathetic outrage at what was happening to Glenn Ford...I remember being transfixed the whole time, my blood percolating with anger and worry.

The acting (Glenn Ford was remarkable -- thoroughly convincing), the mood, the story, the crushing anxiety all still resonate within me more than thirty years later.

This is a movie that should see the light of day again -- it really ought to be available on DVD. [10/10]

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