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The Fury is a 1978 American supernatural horror thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, and Andrew Stevens. The screenplay by John Farris was based on his 1976 novel of the same name . Produced by Frank Yablans and released by 20th Century Fox on March ...
- $7.5 million
- John Williams
- March 10, 1978
- Frank Yablans
Mar 10, 1978 · The Fury: Directed by Brian De Palma. With Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning. A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from a shadowy secret government agency.
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- 2 min
- Brian De Palma
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Peter Sandza is a secret government agent whose son has extraordinary psychic gifts, which make the young man the target of a kidnapping plot hatched by Peter's duplicitous colleague, Ben Childress. Peter spends eleven months in a desperate search for his son, while cleverly evading Childress, who wants him dead.
The Fury (1978 movie) The Fury. (1978 movie) The Fury is a 1978 American supernatural thriller movie directed by Brian De Palma and based on the 1976 novel of the same name by John Farris. It stars Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, Dennis Franz, Daryl Hannah and was distributed by 20th Century Fox .
Sep 15, 2016 · Following the sensational box office and critical success of 1976’s Carrie big things were expected of De Palma’s next flick. Based on the novel The Fury by John Farris, who also adapted it for the big screen, De Palma’s film unfortunately didn't deliver. With a rather costly budget, for the time, of $7.5million The Fury
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On the plus side The Fury is not one of Brain De Palma’s endless homages to Hitchcock - though the beautiful score by John Williams is very reminiscent of the Bernard Herman’s Hitchcock collaborations - and this film may have been released too soon after his adaptation of Carrie for my liking, but overall it is a well-crafted and superbly cast film with a great “Gotcha!” ending.
