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5.0/10   92 votes
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Writers:
Algis Budrys (novel)
George Bloomfield (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
23 August 1972 (USA) more
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He turned a man into a fool, and a game into a nightmare.
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A young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Alan Alda ... Maj. Evelyn Ritchie

Blythe Danner ... Lily Frischer
Heath Lamberts ... Timothy Frischer
Eric Clavering ... Stanley
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104 min
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Algis Budrys won a Mystery Writers Edgar Special Award for "The Master of the Hounds," the novella this film was based on, originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, August 27, 1966. more

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The only terror that will ensue is your own..., 22 November 2002
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Okay. I have very little to say about this "movie" since I understand very little of what went on. But I will say, if you see this piece of crap on the shelf at your local video retailer, put it back and rent Strawdogs. This movie had a nonsense plot, a horrible script, bad acting, and the worst tanline this side of the pacific. Blythe Danner can act, but she must have been dealing with some personal issues during this movie (probably working on her clone, the one we now call Gwenyth). Alan Alda as a sadistic, cripple Vietnam Vet. Sorry, I just don't buy it. And you won't either. Please, do me one favor, don't subject yourself to this "psychological thriller". You'll just end up playing Scrabble anyway.

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