![]() Brunel confronts her and she admits trying to kill Morlar. Failing to get him to stop, she had bashed in Morlar's skull with a blunt object and left him for dead. Zonfeld that he is the instrument of disaster when, with her watching, he forces a jumbo airliner to crash into a London office tower, killing everyone on board.īrunel eventually concludes that Zonfeld has attempted to kill Morlar in order to stop him causing more disasters, the most recent, at the time that he was attacked, involving American astronauts on a space mission to the moon that is being widely broadcast in the media. He inadvertently curses the judge, who soon after dies of a heart attack with a look of unaccountable terror. Morlar's earlier legal career is seen to have halted in a courtroom defence speech that reveals his disgust at the world and offends the judge resulting in a lengthy imprisonment for his client. Zonfeld scoffs at this explanation, asking Morlar if he seriously believes in palmistry as a means of predicting the future.Īs flashbacks continue, it becomes shown that Morlar has powerful psychokinetic abilities. He had become even more convinced when a supposed psychic examined his hands, became greatly unsettled at what he foresaw, and refunded Morlar's fee. Morlar has become convinced that, consciously or unconsciously, he himself willed the things to happen. Seen in flashback, it is filled with seemingly inexplicable catastrophes and the sudden deaths of people he disliked or who grievously offended him. Zonfeld, a psychiatrist Morlar was consulting, Brunel reconstructs Morlar's life. With the help of Morlar's journals and Dr. ![]() As they examine the crime scene, Brunel discovers the victim is still alive in spite of his severe head injuries and has him rushed to hospital. Monsieur Brunel, a French detective on an exchange scheme in London, is assigned to investigate the apparent murder of novelist John Morlar. ![]() The screenplay was by John Briley, based on the 1973 novel The Medusa Touch by Peter Van Greenaway. It stars Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick and Harry Andrews, and features Alan Badel, Derek Jacobi, Gordon Jackson, Jeremy Brett and Michael Hordern. The Medusa Touch is a 1978 British supernatural horror thriller film directed by Jack Gold.
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