The Medusa Touch
Richard Burton is the man with the medusa touch... he has the power to create catastrophe.
Overview
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
- Production
- Coatesgold, ITC Entertainment
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Cast
Richard Burton
John Morlar
Lino Ventura
Brunel
Lee Remick
Doctor Zonfeld
Harry Andrews
Assistant Commissioner
Alan Badel
Barrister
Marie-Christine Barrault
Patricia
Jeremy Brett
Edward Parrish
Michael Hordern
Atropos - Fortune Teller
Gordon Jackson
Doctor Johnson
Michael Byrne
Duff
Derek Jacobi
Townley - Publisher
Malcolm Tierney
Deacon
Philip Stone
Dean
Robert Lang
Pennington
Avril Elgar
Mrs. Pennington
James Hazeldine
Lovelass
John Normington
Mr. Copley
Robert Flemyng
Judge McKinley
Norman Bird
Major Henry Morlar
Jennifer Jayne
Mrs. Morlar
Crew
- Director
- Jack Gold
- Writers
- John Briley
- Producers
- Arnon Milchan,Jack Gold,Anne V. Coates
- Cinematography
- Arthur Ibbetson
- Composer
- Michael J. Lewis
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Wuchak
April 5, 2022
_**Beware the ‘deathlook’ of Richard Burton**_ A writer in London is convinced he has the power to cause destruction at will (Richard Burton) and it’s driving him mad. Lee Remick plays his psychiatrist while Lino Ventura is on hand as a Scotland Yard detective. "The Medusa Touch" (1978) is a slow burn psychological thriller/horror that takes the psychokinesis element of “Carrie” but throws in the mass disaster angle of the later “The Mothman Prophecies” (2002). Other films covering this …
CinemaSerf
June 4, 2023
Though top billed in this, Richard Burton features but sparingly as a man with a tortured past. His recollections to his psychiatrist "Dr. Zonfeld" (Lee Remick) are relayed to police inspector "Brunel" (Lino Ventura) after he ("Morlar") is found savagely beaten at his London flat. As the investigation expands, it is clear that the normal rules do not apply here. "Morlar" shouldn't even be alive, yet his brain activity coupled with a spate of accidents and with the ever more revealing - but sensa…