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Harlequin

Australia

1980

95 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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DIR Simon Wincer

EXEC William Fayman

PROD Antony I. Ginnane, Jane Scott

SCR Everett De Roche

DP Gary Hansen

CAST Robert Powell, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan, Broderick Crawford, Gus Mercurio

ED Adrian Carr

PROD DES Bernard Hides

MUSIC Brian May

SOUND Peter Fenton, Terry Rodman

Synopsis

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the enigmatic stranger who mysteriously comes to “visit” him. Possessing uncanny magical prowess and miraculous psychic abilities, the peculiar, but seemingly benevolent, visitor quickly gains a spell-binding hold over the senator and his family. But a power-lusting political backer is also vying for control over the up-and-coming senator. And he would kill the influential stranger, without question, for that power. But he and the senator are about to be enlightened. —IMDb

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Mr. Arkadin

14Apr12

AKA, *Dark Forces*: Hemmings plays an incredibly unlikable, frustratingly passive character in a morass of other equally unlikable folks. Finding out whether the stranger is or isn't magic is the only thing that might keep your interest (the political corruption plot is muddled and half-done), but as the film does something meant to flip your opinion on the topic every 11 minutes or so, it just becomes tedious.

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