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The Force Beyond

  • 1977
  • G
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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The Force Beyond (1977)
Documentary

Join us on this unique and captivating documentary concerning the most unusual phenomena on our strange planet. With headlines that are reminiscent of your favorite science fiction films, th... Read allJoin us on this unique and captivating documentary concerning the most unusual phenomena on our strange planet. With headlines that are reminiscent of your favorite science fiction films, these spectacles appear almost too good to be true... but are they?Join us on this unique and captivating documentary concerning the most unusual phenomena on our strange planet. With headlines that are reminiscent of your favorite science fiction films, these spectacles appear almost too good to be true... but are they?

  • Director
    • William Sachs
  • Writers
    • Barbara Morris Davison
    • Donn Davison
    • William Sachs
  • Stars
    • Orson Welles
    • Donn Davison
    • Rosko
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    • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
    80
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    • Director
      • William Sachs
    • Writers
      • Barbara Morris Davison
      • Donn Davison
      • William Sachs
    • Stars
      • Orson Welles
      • Donn Davison
      • Rosko
    • 4User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Orson Welles
    Orson Welles
    • Self (commenting on The War of the Worlds radio broadcast)
    • (archive footage)
    Donn Davison
    • Host
    Rosko
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Gerald Noven
    • Pilot, Eastern Airlines
    • (as Captain Gerald Noven)
    Don Elkins
    • Physicist
    • (as Professor Donald Elkins)
    Michael C. Heleus
    • Mathematician
    Ed Herlihy
    Ed Herlihy
    • Newsreel Voice
    • (archive sound)
    George Wald
    George Wald
    • Nobel Prize Winning Biologist
    • (as Professor George Wald)
    Peter Byrne
    • Bigfoot Expert
    Rene Dahinden
    • Bigfoot Expert
    Count Peter Turrolla
    • Archaeologist (South America)
    Anonymous Lawyer
    • Filmmaker, Bigfoot Film
    • (voice)
    Peter Tompkins
    Jack Horkheimer
    • Director, Space Transit Planetarium, Miami
    Frances Farrelly
    • Psychic Medical Diagnostician
    Robie Young
    • Horkheimer Subject
    Peter Roberts
    • Newsreel Commentator
    • (archive sound)
    • (voice)
    Tim Richardson
    • Devil's Triangle Pilot
    • Director
      • William Sachs
    • Writers
      • Barbara Morris Davison(the book "Secrets of the Gods adapted from the film")
      • Donn Davison
      • William Sachs
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      Originally released as Secrets of the Gods. It was so successful that two years later, greedy theater owners decided to release the exact same movie under a different title "The Force Beyond." Moviegoers were upset, they complained to the distributor that they'd already seen the movie.
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      Featured in Dusk to Dawn Drive-In Trash-o-Rama Show Vol. 2 (1996)

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    2/10
    Silly, incoherent mess
    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.)
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    • Release date
      • December 2, 1977 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Ukrainian
    • Production companies
      • Institute of Other World Phenomena
      • Film Ventures International (FVI)
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      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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