The Force Beyond (1978)Director:William SachsWriters:Barbara Morris Davison (the book "Secrets of the Gods adapted from the film"), Donn Davison, 1 more credit » |
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The Force Beyond (1978)Director:William SachsWriters:Barbara Morris Davison (the book "Secrets of the Gods adapted from the film"), Donn Davison, 1 more credit » |
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| Orson Welles | ... |
Himself (commenting on The War of the Worlds radio broadcast)
(archive footage)
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Donn Davison | ... |
Host
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Rosko | ... |
Narrator
(voice)
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Gerald Noven | ... |
Pilot, Eastern Airlines
(as Captain Gerald Noven)
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Don Elkins | ... |
Physicist
(as Professor Donald Elkins)
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Michael C. Heleus | ... |
Mathematician
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Ed Herlihy | ... |
Newsreel Voice
(archive sound)
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George Wald | ... |
Nobel Prize Winning Biologist
(as Professor George Wald)
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Peter Byrne | ... |
Bigfoot Expert
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Rene Dahinden | ... |
Bigfoot Expert
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Count Peter Turrolla | ... |
Archaeologist (South America)
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Anonymous Lawyer | ... |
Filmmaker, Bigfoot Film
(voice)
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Peter Tompkins |
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Jack Horkheimer | ... |
Director, Space Transit Planetarium, Miami
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Frances Farrelly | ... |
Psychic Medical Diagnostician
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Stock footage of the Nazca lines and Tiwanaku's Gate of the Sun, tons of blurry, indistinct UFO photographs from the 1960s and '70s, and eyewitness accounts of flying saucer sightings constitute proof--according to host Donn Davison--that something is out there. The big finish: a few seconds of footage of a Soviet cosmonaut ("smuggled from behind the Iron Curtain!") which Davison attempts to pass off as film of an extraterrestrial being. "The Force Beyond" is insulting even to the indiscriminate drive-in audience for whom it was made. (If the synthetic background music sounds familiar, then you've probably seen Bob Clark's semi-legendary horror flick "Deathdream" more than once.)