TY - ADVS AU - Blatty,William Peter AU - Blatty,William Peter AU - Flanders,Ed AU - Keach,Stacy AU - Miller,Jason AU - Wilson,Scott ED - Hen's Tooth Video (Firm) ED - Westchester Films Inc. TI - The ninth configuration PY - 2014///, c1979 CY - [Las Cruces, NM] PB - Hen's Tooth Video, Westchester Film's, Inc. KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Psychological aspects KW - Drama KW - United States KW - Armed Forces KW - Officers KW - Psychology KW - Feature films KW - lcgft N1 - Based on the novel by W.P. Blatty: Twinkle, twinkle, "Killer" Kane!; Released as motion picture in 1979; Special features: audio commenary by writer/director William Peter Blatty, featurette with film critic Mark Kermode, deleted scenes and outtakes; Director of photography, Gerry Fisher ; music, Barry DeVorzon ; editor, T. Battle Davis, Roberto Silvi, Peter Lee-Thompson; Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand, George DiCenzo, Moses Gunn, Robert Loggia; MPAA Rating: R N2 - In an experimental government center for troubled Vietnam veterans, the inmates run the asylum. One works on an adaptation of Shakespeare ... for dogs. Another fancies himself a caped superhero. Still others masquerade as frogmen, nurses, nuns, pirates, doctors. Yet Colonel Hudson Kane, the psychiatrist in charge, eyes all with a stoic reserve. Maybe too stoic: there's a mystery here. And its final resolution is like a thunderclap ER -