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  1. The Medusa Touch is a 1978 supernatural horror thriller film directed by Jack Gold. 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 screenplay was by John Briley, based on the 1973 novel The Medusa Touch by Peter Van ...

  2. Apr 7, 1978 · The Medusa Touch: Directed by Jack Gold. With Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews. A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them.

    • (7.6K)
    • Drama, Mystery
    • Jack Gold
    • 1978-04-07
  3. Feb 22, 2020 · John Morlar (Burton) claims to have the power to cause disasters by thinking about them, but is he a true telekinetic or a madman? The film explores his past and present crimes, and the investigation of a French detective (Ventura) who tries to stop him.

  4. A thriller drama film starring Richard Burton as a painter who can cause death and disaster with his paintings. Roger Ebert gives it two stars and praises the cinematography and the cast, but criticizes the plot and the script.

  5. A French detective (Lino Ventura) asks a psychiatrist (Lee Remick) about an Englishman (Richard Burton) with the power to cause disaster.

    • (1.4K)
    • Jack Gold
    • PG
    • Richard Burton
    • The Medusa Touch1
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  6. The Medusa Touch is a 1973 novel by Peter Van Greenaway, which was adapted into a feature film in 1978. The novel tells the story of a novelist, John Morlar, who either has psychokinesis or clairvoyance. The Medusa Touch is one of several Van Greenaway books featuring the character Inspector Cherry of Scotland Yard.

  7. A telekinetic novelist causes disasters simply by thinking about them. John Morlar (Richard Burton) is watching a British television broadcast when an anchorman states that American astronauts are trapped in orbit around the moon. Suddenly someone in Morlar's room picks up a figurine and strikes him on the head repeatedly.