It’s always fun to peruse the impressive career of writer-director Michael Crichton, whose brilliant, commercially savvy ideas so often hit the mark. He even invented a plausibly credible dinosaur movie. This 1981 thriller may be his least coherent show, with too many screwy ideas and a supporting cast that needed better direction. Yet it has the winning combination of Albert Finney and Susan Dey, and some very original thriller elements.
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Warner Archive Collection
1981 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date September 18, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Albert Finney, Susan Dey, James Coburn, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dorian Harewood, Tim Rossovich, Darryl Hickman, Kathryn Witt, Terri Welles.
Cinematography: Paul Lohmann
Film Editor: Carl Kress
Production Designer Dean Edward Mitzner
Original Music: Barry DeVorzon
Produced by Howard Jeffrey
Written and Directed by Michael Crichton
Best-selling writer Michael Crichton got into directing early, and by the time of Coma and The Great Train Robbery...
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Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1981 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 93 min. / Street Date September 18, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Albert Finney, Susan Dey, James Coburn, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dorian Harewood, Tim Rossovich, Darryl Hickman, Kathryn Witt, Terri Welles.
Cinematography: Paul Lohmann
Film Editor: Carl Kress
Production Designer Dean Edward Mitzner
Original Music: Barry DeVorzon
Produced by Howard Jeffrey
Written and Directed by Michael Crichton
Best-selling writer Michael Crichton got into directing early, and by the time of Coma and The Great Train Robbery...
- 9/29/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
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