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Director:
Writers:
Jimmy Sangster (screenplay)
Patrick Tilley (writer)
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Release Date:
14 September 1979 (USA) more
Tagline:
It is a birthright of living death... more
Plot:
A millionaire and a million-dollar prostitute, a star-maker and a nation-killer, a woman whose lusts are as cold as graveyard snow... more | add synopsis
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The Wizard Of Oz 70th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review
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A promising idea becomes muddled. more (28 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Katharine Ross | ... | Margaret Walsh | |
| Sam Elliott | ... | Pete Danner | |
| Roger Daltrey | ... | Clive Jackson | |
| John Standing | ... | Jason Mountolive | |
| Ian Hogg | ... | Harry | |
| Margaret Tyzack | ... | Nurse Adams | |
| Charles Gray | ... | Karl Liebnecht | |
| Lee Montague | ... | Jacques Grandier | |
| Hildegarde Neil | ... | Barbara Kirstenburg (as Hildegard Neil) | |
| Marianne Broome | ... | Maria Gabrieli | |
| William Abney | ... | Butler | |
| Patsy Smart | ... | Cook | |
| Mathias Kilroy | ... | Stable Lad | |
| Reg Harding | ... | Gardener |
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Also Known As:
The Legacy of Maggie Walsh
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Runtime:
102 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1980) | Australia:R | Norway:16 | USA:R
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Continuity: In an establishing shot, one of the rear tires of Mountolive's limo clips one of the spherical concrete bollards, which starts rapidly rolling along the drive revealing that it is fake. more
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Karl Liebnecht: [Speaking to Marggie about the portrait of Margaret Walsingham] She vos dragged from ze haus unt burnt at ze stake on ze orters ov Elizabeth the Furst. She vos succeeded by her illegitimate dorter, who inherited all her velth, all her visdom unt all her POWER! more
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Featured in Terror in the Aisles (1984) more
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ANOTHER SIDE OF ME more
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The original screenplay, ("The Devil's Doorway"), showed promise but re-writes apparently turned this into one of those muddles which has no clear point or purpose other than to string together a few creepy scenes in the hope an audience will "buy" it. Things start to go wrong in the very first reel when Katherine Ross and Sam Elliott arrive in England where Ross has a job waiting for her. They're involved in a road accident and get a lift from a man who turns out to be the reason for their coming to England. Is this a coincidence? If so, it boggles the mind. If it isn't a coincidence, then what is it? The movie never explains because, hey, it's a movie, and it's not supposed to make any sense. Note how leading lady Katharine Ross is overdressed throughout in floor-length skirts and long-sleeved blouses whereas leading man Sam Elliott quickly and completely strips down for a rear-view nude scene -- buns by Michelangelo! -- in which he's shown walking into a bathroom and climbing into a shower. There's no plot purpose for this blatant display of male skin and one suspects someone on the film-making staff simply decided that as long as one has a hot, hairy hunk like Sam Elliott in one's employ, why not tell him to take off all his clothes? For the sake of art, of course. (I'll bet no one missed being on the set the day Sam let it all hang out!)