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The Shout

Released 1979

Distributor Films Incorporated

A few years after the success of Deep End, Jerzy Skolimowski directed this equally unsettling drama starring Alan Bates as Crossley, a sinister nomad with supernatural powers. John Hurt and Susannah York are the young couple caught up in the shaman’s web. The film received Grand Prize at the 1978 Cannes Festival.

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