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Cataclysm (1980)
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Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Raw but Suspenseful moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Cameron Mitchell | ... | Lt. Sterne | |
| Marc Lawrence | ... | Abraham Weiss / Dieter | |
| Faith Clift | ... | Claire Hansen | |
| Richard Moll | ... | James Hanson (as Charles Moll) | |
| Maurice Grandmaison | ... | Papini | |
| Robert Bristol | ... | Olivier | |
| Klint Stevenson | ... | Jim | |
| Elizabeth Martin | |||
| Christie Wagner | ... | Ann | |
| Robyn Russell | ... | Mrs. Ziegler | |
| Georgia Geerling | ... | Waitress | |
| T.J. Savage | ... | Morgue attendant | |
| Phil Yordan Jr. | ... | Waiter | |
| Norma Clift | ... | Old bookstore woman | |
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Continuity: The car used to run over Satan's Little Helper towards the end of the movie miraculously repairs its own windscreen between shots. moreSoundtrack:
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This film has good intentions. There is something lacking, but I't hard to put one's finger on it. This tells the tale of a Satanic figure who passes through time by recreating himself. An Nobel author, played by Richard Moll, Bull from "Night Court" of all people, has written a kind of Scientology book about God being dead. It has received much attention and he becomes of interest to the Satanic figure. The movie starts out with a Nazi hunter engaging the police to help him capture the man who was responsible for the deaths of his family members during the Holocaust. The thing that is always in the way is that if Satan is so powerful, why does he need to do much of anything. If there are people who threaten him (which they obviously can't), why doesn't he just kill them outright. I know he is searching for souls and all that, but his invulnerability makes him relatively uninteresting in this film. He does some things that don't make much sense in the world of the film. The ending is kind of fun, I guess.