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Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 18632 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English Original language: English Publication details: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Bros. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2000]Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0790751674
  • 9780790751672
Other title:
  • Title on disc label: Exorist, the version you've never seen
  • Title on container: William Peter Blatty's The exorcist
Uniform titles:
  • Exorcist (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3552.L392 E96 2000
Contents:
Iraq: interesting finds -- "Something I must do." -- Face-to-face -- Rats in the attic -- On the set -- Chris' walk home -- Mother and daughter -- Karras visits his mother -- Ouija board -- Birthday ideas -- Lost and unconnected -- Attic noises -- Chapel desecration -- Nervous disorder -- Hospital -- Chris' party -- "You're gonna die" -- "Make it stop!" -- And I shall be healed -- Temporal lobe diagnosis -- "The sow is mine!" -- Pathological state? -- Death strikes; the stairs -- Psychiatric exam -- From Garfield to Mineo -- Heard of exorcism? -- Scene of the crime -- Kinderman's theory -- "Do you know what she did?" -- Just help her -- Unwelcome visitor -- That thing upstairs -- Holy water and tongues -- Chris' realization -- English in reverse -- Body language -- Choosing the exorcist -- Merrin arrives -- Ritual guidelines -- "I cast you out." -- "The power of Christ" -- Karras' own demons -- Merrin's final battle -- "Take me!" -- Absolution -- Keepsake from Karras -- "I've got passes." -- End credits.
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Owen Roizman, Billy Williams ; makeup artist, Dick Smith ; special effects, Marcel Vercoutere ; production design, Bill Malley ; editors, Evan Lottman, Norman Gay, Bud Smith ; special sound effects, Ron Nagle, Doc Siegel, Gonzalo Gavira, Bob Fine ; costume designer, Joe Fretwell ; technical advisors, John Nicola, Thomas Bermingham, William O'Malley, Norman E. Chase, Herbert E. Walker, Arthur I. Snyder.
Awards:
  • National Film Preservation selection, 2010.
  • Academy Awards, 1974: Best Sound--Robert Knudson, Christopher Newman; Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium--William Peter Blatty.
  • Winner, 1974 Golden Globes: Best Director, Motion Picture--William Friedkin; Best Motion Picture, Drama; Best Screenplay, Motion Picture--William Peter Blatty; Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture--Linda Blair.
Cast: Ellen Burstyn (Chris MacNeil), Max von Sydow (Father Merrin), Lee J. Cobb (Lt. Kinderman), Kitty Winn (Sharon), Jack MacGowran (Burke Dennings), Jason Miller (Father Karras), Linda Blair (Regan).Summary: Actress Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly disturbed by the inexplicable behavior of her 12-year-old daughter Regan--mouthing obscenities, predicting the murder of one of Chris's friends, and urinating in public. Doctors and psychologists have no explanation and as a last option, Chris consults a priest. Father Damian Karras, a Jesuit who is having doubts about his own faith following his mother's death, investigates. Karras comes to no other conclusion that Regan is possessed by a demon. Father Merrin, an older Jesuit, helps Father Karras perform an exorcism, battling the demons inside the child. As much a film about Catholicism and the crisis of faith in the modern world as possession, the Exorcist remains a brilliant horror film, one with an archetypal ability to reach and disturb viewers.
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VID VID Chamberlin Free Public Library Video DVD EXO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000409964

Based on the novel by William Peter Blatty.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973.

"Includes 11 minutes of scenes and images deleted before the film's 1973 release"--Container.

Special features: Commentary by director William Friedkin [audio feature]; Cast & crew [text feature]; TV spots (1 min.); Radio spots [audio feature]; Theatrical trailers (4 min.); Text features: Behind the screams, Blatty and Friedkin: Vision and differences, The most famous scene not in the movie, Fast facts, Awards.

Iraq: interesting finds -- "Something I must do." -- Face-to-face -- Rats in the attic -- On the set -- Chris' walk home -- Mother and daughter -- Karras visits his mother -- Ouija board -- Birthday ideas -- Lost and unconnected -- Attic noises -- Chapel desecration -- Nervous disorder -- Hospital -- Chris' party -- "You're gonna die" -- "Make it stop!" -- And I shall be healed -- Temporal lobe diagnosis -- "The sow is mine!" -- Pathological state? -- Death strikes; the stairs -- Psychiatric exam -- From Garfield to Mineo -- Heard of exorcism? -- Scene of the crime -- Kinderman's theory -- "Do you know what she did?" -- Just help her -- Unwelcome visitor -- That thing upstairs -- Holy water and tongues -- Chris' realization -- English in reverse -- Body language -- Choosing the exorcist -- Merrin arrives -- Ritual guidelines -- "I cast you out." -- "The power of Christ" -- Karras' own demons -- Merrin's final battle -- "Take me!" -- Absolution -- Keepsake from Karras -- "I've got passes." -- End credits.

Director of photography, Owen Roizman, Billy Williams ; makeup artist, Dick Smith ; special effects, Marcel Vercoutere ; production design, Bill Malley ; editors, Evan Lottman, Norman Gay, Bud Smith ; special sound effects, Ron Nagle, Doc Siegel, Gonzalo Gavira, Bob Fine ; costume designer, Joe Fretwell ; technical advisors, John Nicola, Thomas Bermingham, William O'Malley, Norman E. Chase, Herbert E. Walker, Arthur I. Snyder.

Ellen Burstyn (Chris MacNeil), Max von Sydow (Father Merrin), Lee J. Cobb (Lt. Kinderman), Kitty Winn (Sharon), Jack MacGowran (Burke Dennings), Jason Miller (Father Karras), Linda Blair (Regan).

Actress Chris MacNeil becomes increasingly disturbed by the inexplicable behavior of her 12-year-old daughter Regan--mouthing obscenities, predicting the murder of one of Chris's friends, and urinating in public. Doctors and psychologists have no explanation and as a last option, Chris consults a priest. Father Damian Karras, a Jesuit who is having doubts about his own faith following his mother's death, investigates. Karras comes to no other conclusion that Regan is possessed by a demon. Father Merrin, an older Jesuit, helps Father Karras perform an exorcism, battling the demons inside the child. As much a film about Catholicism and the crisis of faith in the modern world as possession, the Exorcist remains a brilliant horror film, one with an archetypal ability to reach and disturb viewers.

MPAA Rating: Rated R for strong language and disturbing images; Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby digital surround, 2.0 Dolby digital surround; widescreen presentation preserving the 1.85:1 aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for widescreen televisions.

In English with optional subtitles in English and French ; closed captioned in English.

National Film Preservation selection, 2010.

Academy Awards, 1974: Best Sound--Robert Knudson, Christopher Newman; Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium--William Peter Blatty.

Winner, 1974 Golden Globes: Best Director, Motion Picture--William Friedkin; Best Motion Picture, Drama; Best Screenplay, Motion Picture--William Peter Blatty; Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture--Linda Blair.

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