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10 March 1978 (USA)
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An experience in terror and suspense.
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A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harbor his extremely powerful psychic abilities. full summary | add synopsis
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Psychic
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Experiment
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Gothic
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Severed Head
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Chicago
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1 win
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Messing With His Mind As Well As His Libido
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kirk Douglas | ... | Peter Sandza |
 | John Cassavetes | ... | Ben Childress |
| Carrie Snodgress | ... | Hester |
| Charles Durning | ... | Dr. Jim McKeever |
 | Amy Irving | ... | Gillian Bellaver |
| Fiona Lewis | ... | Dr. Susan Charles |
 | Andrew Stevens | ... | Robin Sandza |
| Carol Eve Rossen | ... | Dr. Ellen Lindstrom (as Carol Rossen) |
 | Rutanya Alda | ... | Kristen |
| Joyce Easton | ... | Katharine Bellaver |
 | William Finley | ... | Raymond Dunwoodie |
| Jane Lambert | ... | Vivian Nuckells |
| Sam Laws | ... | Blackfish |
 | J. Patrick McNamara | ... | Robertson |
| Alice Nunn | ... | Mrs. Callahan |
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118 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Singapore:PG |
Iceland:16 |
Argentina:18 (re-rating) (1978) (cut) |
Argentina:X (original rating) |
Argentina:13 (re-rating) (1985) (uncut) |
Australia:MA (cable rating) |
Brazil:16 |
Sweden:15 |
Australia:R |
Finland:K-18 |
France:-12 |
Norway:18 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16
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For her role as a psychic with telepathic powers, Amy Irving attended a biofeedback clinic to learn about different levels of consciousness. After personally experiencing psychic changes, she had a better sense of how her character could transmit and receive messages.
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Factual errors: Woman gets run down by a current model Ford. She crashes through the windshield, which is made of plain glass. Since 1966, all cars made in the United States have safety glass in the windshield.
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Peter Sandza:
Hester, look at me. I'm proof - proof that my son is alive or else why would Childress be so anxious to put me away?... Well, thank God I'm somewhere.
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Referenced in Reservoir Dogs (1992)
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Does anyone remember the famous Star Trek episode, one of the earliest ones where an encounter with an anomaly in space leaves Enterprise crewman, Gary Lockwood with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men? If you'll remember he was abandoned on deserted asteroid. The Fury deals with a young man on the way to being another Gary Lockwood.
Young Andrew Stevens has those abilities already, they just need to be focused and developed. Stevens is being raised by his widowed father Kirk Douglas who's a government agent. A raid while they're on vacation in the Mediterranean by some Arab terrorist types allows a ruthless bureaucrat played by John Cassavetes to separate father from son. Stevens believes Dad has died, but Kirk doesn't swallow that so easy.
Kirk's on the hunt for his son and the quest takes him to Chicago where people like Stevens with paranormal abilities are being studied and tested so the USA can have them as a weapon. Carrie Snodgrass and Charles Durning are working there as well. And so is Fiona Lewis who's been given personal charge of Stevens and develops the kid's libido as well as his telekinesis.
Brian DePalma directed this film and it's a good one with outstanding performances by all the cast. Look for a good performance from Amy Irving as another young person with such abilities who literally makes Cassavetes fall apart at the end. And there's a memorable bit from a younger and thinner Dennis Franz before the gain of weight and loss of hair that we all know as Detective Andrew Sipowicz. Franz plays a Chicago police officer who's something of a doofus.
Fans of Brian DePalma in particular and horror films in general will very much like The Fury.