Ninth Configuration (The)
- Director: William Peter Blatty
- Writer: William Peter Blatty
- Producer: William Peter Blatty; William Paul
CGiii Comment
Blatty considered this to be the sequel to The Exorcist - what an imagination!
This is for an acquired taste - you will either love it or hate it.
What it does confirm is that Blatty is a better writer than a director.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for mentally ill and A.W.O.L. U.S. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combatting his own long-suppressed insanity.
Cast & Characters
Stacy Keach as Col. Vincent Kane;
Scott Wilson as Capt. Billy Cutshaw;
Jason Miller as Lt. Frankie Reno;
Ed Flanders as Col. Richard Fell;
Neville Brand as Maj. Marvin Groper;
George DiCenzo as Capt. Fairbanks;
Moses Gunn as Maj. Nammack;
Robert Loggia as Lt. Bennish;
Joe Spinell as Lt. Spinell;
Alejandro Rey as Lt. Gomez;
Tom Atkins as Sgt. Krebs;
Steve Sandor as 1st Cyclist;
Richard Lynch as 2nd Cyclist;
Gordon Mark as Sgt. Gilman;
William Lucking as Highway Patrolman