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- BFI identifier56105
- Date1978 (Copyright)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom, USA
- Production company
- SynopsisHorror. American designer Maggie is offered $50,000 to travel to England to work on an unspecified project. She accepts and her partner Pete goes with her. As they explore the English countryside on a motorcycle, they are run off the road by a Rolls-Royce. Its owner, affable artistocrat Jason Mountolive, insists they come for tea at his home while he sees to getting their bike repaired. Unable to decline the offer of help, they join him, but little do they realise what lies in store for them at the remote Mountolive stately home. Their host disappears, the strict Nurse Adams gives them no option but to stay overnight, a number of mysterious guests arrive by helicopter, sinister 'accidents' occur and Maggie is led to a secretive gathering to receive a special message Jason, which leaves her deeply shocked. As occult forces begin to make themselves felt, the Americans find that leaving the mansion and its grounds will be harder than they suspected. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirected by: Richard Marquand
©: Pethurst Ltd
A Turman-Foster production: Turman-Foster Company
view all - CastKatharine Ross (Margaret Walsh, 'Maggie')
Sam Elliott (Pete Danner)
Charles Gray (Karl Liebknecht)
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Title
The Legacy (Original)
The Devil's Doorway (Working)
Psychose (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/999A-47D3-F8AA-EF5D-D13B-XCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: by Jimmy Sangster - SCR-11191
Script - Script type: Shooting script - SCR-11192
Script - Script type: Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster - SCR-11193
Script - Script type: Revised first draft screenplay by Patrick Tilley based on a script by Jimmy Sangster - SCR-11194
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-56105
Medium Pressbook held
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- StillsPhotograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-3396654
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Work - 56105 - 1978 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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