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Apstein</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Ennio Morricone</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Robert Palaggi</B></div> <div> <B>Make-up by Giulio Natalucci</B></div> <div> <B>Based on an Original Story by Max De Rita & Albert De Martino</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Craig/Keith Mannings..Michael Moriarty (Island of the Alive, Troll)</B></div> <div> <B>Julie Warren..........Penelope Milford (Coming Home, Rosie)</B></div> <div> <B>Bud Waldo.............Cameron Mitchell (The Tomb, The Toolbox Murders)</B></div> <div> <B>Christine.............Sarah Langenfeld (The Act)</B></div> <div> <B>Hedwig................Martha Smith</B></div> <div> <B>Woman in Ballroom.....Virginia McKenna (Born Free, Christian the Lion)</B></div> <div> <B>Inspector Hessinger...Reinhold K. Olszewski</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Thomason.........Geraldine Fitzgerald (Arthur II, Poltergeist II)</B></div> <div> <B>Woman Tourist.........Henriette Gonnermann</B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Adams.............Alex Diaku</B></div> <div> <B>Twins.................Reese and Roy Hasanan</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique: The main beef with the film is that it's too damn long, primarily due to slowness and unnecessary transitions. Poor Cameron Mitchell's weird part is certainly forced - he appears to be ad-libbing his dialogue - as is the relationship with his daughter. Talk about forced! Why would the doctor and boxer bump into each other in Hamburg of all places? Why did the doctor meet that woman in the cafe? When did he leave Hamburg for Berlin? Why? Why? Overall, lots of motivations appear to have wound up on the cutting room floor (if they were ecver clear). Still the idea of Keith's hatred of women and his impotence are fairly consistent, thanks to veteran awful movie saviour Michael Moriarty (Island of the Alive), if his story is rambling at times and a bit dreadfully slow. he plays with his hair when he's inside himself Kristina blithely accepts Manning's explanation. Sadly, this is director DeMartino's masterpiece (see "credits" above). This cast was meant for more coherent things.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: Rich people fox trot one couple after the music stops "She's so lucky to find someone so young- at her age!" He loves his gold watch too. As they dance and she celebrates what he's given her he kills her puts her in a chair and leaves. A phone rings and the man awakes from this vision. It's 745 and his girlfriend Julie calls. Dr. Manning is very popular with his neighbors and really is a swell guy if it weren't for these visions of strange wealthy women who constantly approach him smiling then he sees himself kill them. He tells Julie of his two visions, one asleep and one awake and of the joy he felt in killing them. He theorizes that his experimental therapy has unleashed something in himself. In a presentation to a funding committee the doctors explain that their therapy begins with acupuncture and electrical shock. When Dr. Manning is hooked up, "Those two people against the wall and the boy keeps crying out, "Don't do it don't do it" For some reason, Manning suddenly flies to Cleveland (and boy are his arms tired"  He visits Mrs. Thomason in a senior citizens home and when she sees him she is delighted. It took you long enough to come and see me. She thinks he's Keith, but he explains he's Keith's twin brother. She believing all the while this is Keith, explains that he had to see a psychiatrist per judicial order at age seven. Keith and Craig were Siamese twins. Bert and two borders died in the fire Keith set at age seventeen, Keith, however, contrary to popular belief, did not.Just like Aunt Caroline, Craig can't get a straight answer from Mrs. Thomason. Back at home, Craig tells Julie that he knows his brother is still alive and that he can see what his brother sees. During breakfast in bed, Craig realizes that he may have subconsciously programmed himself to find his brother and in a flashback recognizes the writing "deutsche Werft" and the ballroom on a ship as German. Immediately he makes a list of German harbor cities. On his first day in Germany Dr. Manning meets a woman and a former patient, aging boxer Bud Waldo. Inspector Hessinger of the Hamburg police finds Craig and asks him if he had been in the crystal ballroom before. Waldo wants Manning to give him a clean bill of health so he can get a fight. Unfortunately, during a sparring match Mannings beat Waldo to death and though his daughter Kristina saw the murder, the police say heart attack in training. While lying with a prostitute, Keith senses his brother's presence sees him through the window and calls Waldo's daughter and tells her where she can find her father's killer which she does and stalks him with a knife but he disarms her. He explains to her that his evil twin brother did it, so, relieved, they go to her place for drinks. Suddenly he has a vision that his brother is killing the prostitute and rushes to the brothel where he finds her well and happy at the prospect of doing twins but the brothers have some talking to do. Why didn't Aunt Caroline take both boys. Craig had all the advantages. Keith admits to killing lost aging women. After knocking Craig out, Keith realizes another way to break the link. After having sex with Kristina and sleeping, Craig hears a sound and turns on the light and steps into the shower with Keith right behind him. Keith injects him and climbs into bed with Kristina who immediately spots the scar on the left side. he rapes and murders her "God damn all of you!" leaves and sends the police who arrest Dr. Manning. The German police have Keith Mannings-Thomason's death certificate and don't believe. Craig remembers another witness saw them together the prostitute. When the police arrive she is dead. As Craig tries to get to East Berlin he feels his brother tune in and murders his porter. He heads to the airport Keith blinds Craig by staring into the eyes of a car. Julie appeals to Keith through Craig's eyes and tells him to meet her at the airport bus terminal. She has voluntary sex with Keith and stabs him  which Craig feels and in his delirium he remembers how they lost their parents and why they were separated.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>