USA, 1967
108m
35mm film, “filmed in Panavision”, Metrocolor, 2.35:1
mono, English
An American science fiction film directed by Byron Haskin.
Plot Summary
A man who has developed telekinetic powers discovers that there’s another man with the same abilities and is out to kill him.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Byron Haskin
© MCMLXVII 1967] by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. and Galaxy Productions, Inc.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents a George Pal Production
Produced by: George Pal
Unit Production Manager: Ralph W. Nelson
Screen Play by: John Gay
Based on the Novel by: Frank M. Robinson
Assistant Director: E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Director of Photography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Film Editor: Thomas J. McCarthy
Music Composed and Conductor by: Miklos Rozsa
Recording Supervisor: Franklin Milton
Make-Up by: William Tuttle
Hair Styles by: Sydney Guilaroff
Special Visual Effects: J. McMillan Johnson, Gene Warren
Art Directors: George W. Davis and Merrill Pye
Set Decoration: Henry Grace, Don Greenwood Jr
Assistant to the Producer: Gae Griffith
Cast
George Hamilton (Professor Jim Tanner)
Suzanne Pleshette (Professor Margery Lansing)
Richard Carlson (Professor Norman E. Van Zandt)
Yvonne De Carlo (Mrs Sally Hallson)
Earl Holliman (Professor Talbot Scott)
Gary Merrill (Mark Corlane)
Ken Murray (Grover)
Barbara Nichols (Flora)
Arthur O’Connell (Professor Henry Hallson)
Nehemiah Persoff (Professor Carl Melnicker)
Aldo Ray (Bruce)
Michael Rennie (Arthur Nordlund)
Miiko Taka (Mrs Van Zandt)
Celia Lovsky (Mrs Hallson)
Vaughn Taylor (Mr Hallson)
Lawrence Montaigne (Briggs)
Miss Beverly Hills [real name: Beverly Powers] (Sylvia)
Alternative Titles
Aivojen sota – Finland
O Cérebro – Portugal
La forza invisibile – Italy
La Guerre des cerveaux – France
El poder – Spain
Psyko-Killer – Sweden
Die Sechs Verdächtigen – West Germany
Links
Extracts included in
Lionpower from MGM (1967)
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein no.12 p.45, 46
- Castle of Frankenstein no.13 p.62
- Castle of Frankenstein no.22 p.42
- The Daily Cinema no.9512 (24 April 1968) p.7
- The Film Daily vol.132 no.22 (31 January 1968) p.7
- Films in Review vol.30 no.7 (August/September 1979) 416 – review (The Sound Track by Page Cook)
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.199 no.16 (19 January 1968) p.3
- Kine Weekly no.3159 (27 April 1968) p.12
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.35 no.413 (June 1968) p.92
- The Sensational Sixties no.1 (Autumn 2020) pp.14-19 – illustrated article (The Power by Jim O’Brien)
- Variety 24 January 1968 p.6
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction by Phil Hardy (ed) p.266
- Kine Yearbook 1969 p.118
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.379 – credits
- The Stop-motion Filmography by Neil Pettigrew pp.549-551
- World Filmography 1968 by Peter Cowie (ed.) p.624
