Review of The Power

The Power (1968)
7/10
battle of brainwaves
16 May 2020
Suzanne Pleshette and George Hamilton had both been in the biz for about ten years already. Hamilton and Pleshette are scientists Tanner and Lansing, studying physical limits to the body and brain at some research facility. Art O'Connell is Dr. Hallson, who realizes that someone on the team has an IQ off the charts, and has decided that this must mean they have telekinesis... although the two seem unrelated to me. Co-starts Aldo Ray and Yvonne DiCarlo. and footage of the astronaut G force testing room. fun scene at the "joshua tavern", where the server tries to talk him out of coffee, since she'll have to heat it up. and everywhere Tanner goes, suddenly everyone is trying to kill him for asking questions. it goes a little goofy when they can't find a hotel room, so they buddy up to people at an appliance convention. and when they start tracking down other scientists from that meeting, they seem to end up D-E-D dead. Gary Merrill is in here as Detective Corlane. he's not sure if he believes Tanner... (Merrill was so good in All about Eve) Directed by Byron Haskin. was nominted FOUR times for special effects, and won a special achievement award for camera technology. Written by Frank Robinson, who had three of his novels made into film. Pleshette had already made Birds in 1963. it's pretty good... a bit dated now, but these were probably pretty cool effects for the time. came out the same year as 2001, a space odyssey.
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