ALL SCI-FI

[Bogmeister]

____________
______________________

____________________ Medusa Touch Trailer


__________

Rare sci-fi starring role for Richard Burton.

This was late in his career and he plays an unlikable, creepy sort in this one, someone who finds out that he has vast telekinetic powers which can be used for acts of destruction.
Lee Remick co-stars as a psychiatrist who gradually comes to believe the unbelievable.

Most of the film is actually a flashback. The key scene and what everyone who has seen this remembers is when Burton's character shows off his power on a flying commercial airliner.

This is also part murder-mystery, but Burton's character — the supposed victim — is hard to kill due to a superhuman will to live. Rather hackneyed and a bore . . . similar to The Fury (7 from around the same time.

BEHIND-THE-SCENES:

__________

___

BoG's Score: 4 out of 10


BoG
Galaxy Overlord Galactus

[Bud Brewster]

__________________________________________________

IMDB has several interesting trivia items for this production.
__________________________________________________

~ The Boeing 747 model used was a nine-foot (2.7 meters) long former travel agents window model made out of perspex by Space Models of Feltham. The model was suspended twenty feet (six meters) above the floor of Shepperton Studios for its fifty-yard (45.7 meters) run to the Office block.

Note from me: I wonder what the studio paid for it.

~ According to Lee Remick about Richard Burton: "We each did the film because the other would be in it."

Note from me: I wonder if Elizabeth Taylor knew about this mutual admiration society.

~ Film critic Roger Ebert, then co-starring on the television program Sneak Previews (1975) alongside Gene Siskel, named this picture "The Worst Movie of 1978".

Note from me: Amazing! It's actually worse than Grease and Jaws 2?
_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)