The Possessed (1977/TV ) (MOD) "Bundles/Compilations"

The Possessed (1977/TV ) (MOD) "Bundles/Compilations"Papers mysteriously burn, curtains suddenly ignite and the class president inexplicably bursts into flame. There's something evil happening at Salem's Helen Page School and only a defrocked minister turned exorcist (James Farentino) can save the students from a fiery fate. Co starring Joan Hackett and highlighted by an eerie score from two time Oscar winner* Leonard Rosenman, The Possessed also features a attention grabbing turn by Harrison Ford as

One brave act and the spell is broken

Nearly four decades later

terse and gripping war-time thriller both plumbs the depths of human depravity and soars to the heights of human charity and sacrifice

neurotic Vera and no-nonsense Flo

Eddie Albert

a band of international refugees flee Budapest

" "Apocalypse Now")

is not just an affectionate filmization of Sandy Wilson's London/Broadway stage hit but also an homage to the movie stagings of Busby Berkeley - complete with imaginative use of kaleidoscopic top shots and rows of leggy chorines

Unschooled homesteader Sayward Luckett couldn't read her name if you showed it to her

It's harder to go straight than to live a life of crime

plays the returned wife who cagily sets out to reclaim her former life

are performances of song standards like Birth of the Blues