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Apprentice to Murder (1988)
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Fire-and-brimstone preacher sees Satan everywhere, trains gullible young boy to "detect" evil, and the...
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Donald Sutherland | ... | John Reese | |
| Chad Lowe | ... | Billy Kelly | |
| Mia Sara | ... | Alice Spangler | |
| Knut Husebø | ... | Lars Hoeglin | |
| Rutanya Alda | ... | Elma Kelly | |
| Eddie Jones | ... | Tom Kelly | |
| Mark Burton | ... | Clay Myers | |
| Adrian Sparks | ... | Irwin Myers | |
| Tiger Haynes | ... | Rufus | |
| Minnie Gentry | ... | Mam Isobel | |
| Blain Fairman | ... | Foreman | |
| Mert Hatfield | ... | Sheriff | |
| Keith Edwards | ... | Cop 1 | |
| Chris Langman | ... | Patterson | |
| Lars Hiller | ... | Prouty |
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Long Lost Friend (USA) (working title)
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I love this movie and have recommended it to my students in folk-magic because it is closely based on a true story of murder, mysticism, and (possible) madness concerning a Pennsylvania Dutch Pow Wow doctor in the mid-1920s. Donald Sutherland is superb as John Reese, the highly eccentric conjure and herbalist. Chad Lowe is quite good as his young apprentice. The location shots, filmed in Norway, are spectacular -- not Pennsylvania Dutch country, exactly, but a wonderful rural landscape, with great old 19th century buildings. There is also a very good look at contemporaneous hoodoo practices, as the Pow Wow doctor seeks an outside consultation to cure his ills. If you're a prop and set decoration fan and knowledgeable about magic, look for the couple of Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs (inexplicably called "hexagrams" -- the movie's one false step) that contain Norse bind-runes thrown in on them -- obviously that was the Norwegian prop-maker's little in-joke. This is a great little underrated classic, and the perfect vehicle for Donald Sutherland.