Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0084296058662
Edition: edited version
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: United American Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: United American Video
Publisher: United American Video
Release Date: October 09, 1998
Running Time: 107 minutes
Studio: United American Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 08, 1978

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For fans of Anthony Hopkins' intensity and versatility as an actor, this late-seventies thriller is a shining obscurity. Hopkins plays troubled loner Corky, his years of preparation as a slight-of-hand magician thrust back in his face by a drunk and distracted debut audience, who then redirects his efforts into a ventriloquism act with an engagingly demented dummy-sidekick, Fats. The resulting sudden thrust into national fame causes a very real split within Corky, who has given away far too ... Read More

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Rating: - Magic.......
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Rating: - Creepy old Anthony Hopkins film
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Rating: - A ventriloquists nightmare
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Rating: - Great oldie
I hadn't seen this film since the seventies. Hopkins was an anonymous actor in those days. Still he brings an enormous performance as the shizophrenic puppeteer, competing against his own puppet.
The play of the seventies is still enjoyable according to today's standards.
Great film !

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