USA, 21 January 1972
73m
35mm film, colour, 1.33:1
mono, English
Reviewed at The EOFFTV Review
An American horror television film directed by Steven Spielberg.
Plot Summary
Marge Worden moves into a new home with her family (husband Paul, son Stevie and daughter Laurie). The farmhouse at first seems idyllic, but Marge soon comes to realise that they’re not alone in the house – a demon is also in residence and Marge slowly loses her marbles as the demon tries to possess her.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
© MCMLXXII [1972] Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
A CBS Television Network production
Produced by: Alan Jay Factor
Associate Producers: Harvey Lembeck and David Knapp
Production Manager: Edward O. Denault
Unit Production Manager: Sam Manners
Written by: Robert Clouse
Assistant Director: Jack Roe
Director of Photography: Bill Butler
Film Editor: Allan Jacobs
Music by: Wladimir Selinsky
Music Supervision: Morton Stevens
Sound Mixer: George Ronconi
Costumes by: Stephen Lodge, Agnes Lyon
Makeup: Ken Chase
Hair Stylists: Gloria Montemayor
Special Optical Effects: Brandes, Berke & Associates
Production Designer: E. Albert Heschong
Set Decorator: Sandy Grace
Automobiles Furnished by: Ford Marketing Corporation
Filmed at: CBS Studio Center, Studio City, California
Cast
Sandy Dennis as Marjorie Worden
Darren McGavin as Paul Worden
Jeff Corey as Gehrmann
Johnny Whitaker as Stevie Worden
John Rubinstein as Ernest [Lincoln]
Ralph Bellamy as Harry Lincoln
David Knapp as John
Laurie Hagen as Beth
Herb Armstrong [Schiller]
Margaret Avery [Irene]
Norman Bartold [Mr Hackett]
Sheila Bartold [Mrs Hackett]
Lois Battle [Mrs Faraday]
Bella Bruck [Mrs Gehrmann]
Lynn Cartwright [secretary]
John J. Fox [sound man]
Alan Frost
Carl Gottlieb
John Hudkins
Crane Jackson
Michael Macready
Paul Micale
Margaret Muse
John Nolan
Connie Hunter Ragaway
Elizabeth Rogers
Steven Spielberg
Bruno VeSota
Debbie and Sandy Lempert (Laurie)
References
Periodicals
- Empire Special: Steven Spielberg – articles
- Films Illustrated vol.5 no.59 (July 1976) pp.406-407
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.219 no.37 (21 January 1972) p.28
Books
- Cyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Made for Television by Fraser A. Sherman pp.162-163
- Fright Night on Channel 9 by James Arena p.190
- Horror and Science Fiction Films III by Donald C. Willis pp.242-243
- Movies Made for Television: The Telefeature and the Mini-Series 1964-1979 by Alvin H. Marill p.86 – llustrated credits, synopsis
- Steven Spielberg by Donald R. Mott & Cheryl McAllister Saunders pp.18, 177
- Steven Spielberg (2nd ed) by Philip M. Taylor pp.50-51, 74, 80, 144
- Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride pp.208, 502, 507
- Steven Spielberg, Filmmaker by James Robert Parish p.36
- The World of Fantasy Films by Richard Myers p.157
