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The ninth configuration [videorecording] / written, produced and directed by William Peter Blatty.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Publication details: [Las Cruces, NM] : Hen's Tooth Video : Westchester Film's, Inc., 2014, c1979.Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • William Peter Blatty's The ninth configuration [Cover title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Gerry Fisher ; music, Barry DeVorzon ; editor, T. Battle Davis, Roberto Silvi, Peter Lee-Thompson.
Cast: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand, George DiCenzo, Moses Gunn, Robert Loggia.Summary: 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.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD DRAMA Ninth co Available 33111008290369
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In the final days of the Vietname War, the Justive Department set up a mental hospital for soldiers in a remote castle. A new psychiatrist is assigned to the hospital, to figure out who's faking, and who is really insane in a world gone mad.

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.

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.

MPAA Rating: R.

DVD, widescreen (2.35:1); Dolby Digital mono 2.0.

Can be viewed with subtitles in English.

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