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Date: 1977 (Release)

Country: USA

Director: John Boorman

Synopsis: Father Merrin, who performed the exorcism on Regan, is dead and his posthumous reputation is linked with heresy and satanism. Only if his successful exorcism of Regan is accepted by the Church will his name be cleared. Father Lamont is sent to investigate the truth of the exorcism.

Genre:
Horror
Releases
Date: 1977not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 117 mins

Credits (50)
Production Company: Warner Bros., Producer: Richard Lederer, Producer: John Boorman, Associate Producer: Charles Orme, Production Manager: John Coonan, Production Manager: William C. Gerrity, Location Manager: John James, 2nd unit director/creative associate: Rospo Pallenberg, Assistant Director: Phil Rawlins, Assistant Director: Victor Hsu, Screenplay: William Goodhart, Original characters: William Peter Blatty, Director of Photography: William A. Fraker, Special locust photography: Sean Morris, David Thompson, 2nd Unit Photographer: David Quaid, 2nd Unit Photographer: Ken Eddy, 2nd Unit Photographer: Diane Eddy, Special Photographic Effects: Albert J. Whitlock, Special Photographic Effects: Van Der Veer Photo Company, Process consultant: Bill Hansard, Special Effects: Chuck Gaspar, Special Effects: Wayne Edgar, Special Effects: Jim Blount, Special Effects: Jeff Jarvis, Special Effects: Roy Kelly, Editor: Tom Priestley, Associate Editor: Axel Hubert, Production Designer: Richard Macdonald, Art Director: Jack T. Collis, Art Director: Gene Rudolf, Set Decorator: John Austin, Regan's drawings: Katrine Boorman, Scenic Artist: Ron Strang, Costumes: Robert De Mora, Special make-up: Dick Smith, Make-up: Gary Liddiard, Title Design: Dan Perri, Music composed and conducted: Ennio Morricone, Choreography: Daniel Joseph Giagni, Sound Recording: Walter Goss, Sound Re-recording: Arthur Piantadosi, Sound Re-recording: Les Fresholtz, Sound Re-recording: Michael Minkler, Sound Effects: Jim Atkinson, Synchronisation effects editor: Russ Hill, Entomologist: Steven Kutcher, African technical consultant: Fiseha Dimetros, Hypnosis consultant: Kenneth Fineman
Cast (22)
Linda Blair (Regan MacNeil), Richard Burton (Father Philip Lamont), Louise Fletcher (Dr. Gene Tuskin), Max von Sydow (Father Merrin), Kitty Winn (Sharon Spencer), Paul Henreid (Cardinal Jaros), James Earl Jones (older Kokumo), Ned Beatty (Edwards), Belinha Beatty (Liz), Rose Portillo (Spanish Girl), Barbara Cason (Mrs. Phalor), Tiffany Kinney (Deaf Girl), Joey Green (Young Kokumo), Fiseha Dimetros (Young Monk), Ken Renard (Abbot), John Joyce (Monk), Hank Garrett (Conductor), Lorry Goldman (Accident Victim), Bill Grant (Taxi Driver), Shane Butterworth (Tuskin child), Joely Adams (Tuskin Child), Vladek Sheybal (Voice of Pazuzu)