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Cast
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Lino Ventura | ... |
Brunel
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Assistant Commissioner
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Alan Badel | ... |
Barrister
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Marie-Christine Barrault | ... |
Patricia
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Jeremy Brett | ... |
Edward Parrish
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Michael Hordern | ... |
Atropos - Fortune Teller
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Gordon Jackson | ... |
Doctor Johnson
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Michael Byrne | ... |
Duff
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Townley - Publisher
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Robert Lang | ... |
Pennington
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Avril Elgar | ... |
Mrs. Pennington
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John Normington | ... |
Schoolmaster
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Robert Flemyng | ... |
Judge McKinley
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Storyline
John Morlar is watching the British television broadcast when an anchorman states that American astronauts are trapped in orbit around the moon. Suddenly someone in Morlar's room picks up a figurine and strikes him on the head repeatedly. His blood splatters the television screen. A French police inspector, Brunel, arrives at Morlar's apartment to begin an investigation. At first he thinks Morlar is dead, but soon he hears him breathe. At the hospital, Morlar is hooked up to life support systems, one machine in particular monitors the activity of his battered brain. Brunel discovers that Morlar has been in psychological analysis because of his history of being witness to many disasters, other people's disasters. Dr. Zonfeld, Morlar's analyst, explains that Morlar's delusions had begun when he was a child. He believed that he had caused a hated nanny's death... Written by alfiehitchie
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Trivia
Filmed hurriedly in the early summer of 1977 so Richard Burton could begin filming The Wild Geese in South Africa in the late summer. See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: As Inspector Brunel watches the TV news a close-up of the screen reveals that the caption saying "Minster Cathedral" is actually stuck on to the TV screen rather than forming part of the TV picture. The letters cast shadows on to the glass. See more »Quotes
John Morlar: [his first meeting with Zonfeld] I have a "gift" for disaster.Doctor Zonfeld: You seem to have survived it.
John Morlar: I don't mean for me, I mean for others.
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