The Power

1968 "YOU feel it until you can't feel anything at all!"

The Power

5.9 | 1h48m | en | Thriller

One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.

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Released: February. 21,1968 | Released Producted By: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , George Pal Productions Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Genre

Thriller , Science Fiction

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Cast

George Hamilton , Suzanne Pleshette , Richard Carlson

Director

George W. Davis

Producted By

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Crew

George Hamilton

as Jim Tanner

Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind Valerie Melvin Smarty Swiped The Congressman Silver Skies Being Evel Milius

Suzanne Pleshette

as Margery Lansing

The Blob Paralyzed Segments: Suzanne Pleshette Tangled Up in Codes The Lion King II: Simba's Pride G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool The Art of 'Spirited Away' Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's The Boys Are Back Diagnosis Murder: A Twist of the Knife Battling for Baby

Richard Carlson

as N. E. Van Zandt

3-D Rarities Freedom 2000 Change of Habit The Valley of Gwangi The Power The Doomsday Flight Kid Rodelo Della Famous Ghost Stories Tormented

George W. Davis

Art Direction

Merrill Pye

Art Direction

Arnold Goode

Props

Henry Grace

Set Decoration

Don Greenwood Jr.

Set Decoration

Ellsworth Fredericks

Director of Photography

Sydney Guilaroff

Hairstylist

William Tuttle

Makeup Artist

E. Darrell Hallenbeck

Assistant Director

Byron Haskin

Director

Art Levinson

Second Assistant Director

Thomas J. McCarthy

Editor

George Pal

Producer

Gae Griffith

Producer's Assistant

Miklós Rózsa

Conductor

Miklós Rózsa

Original Music Composer

Franklin Milton

Sound Recordist

J. McMillan Johnson

Visual Effects

Gene Warren

Visual Effects

Frank M. Robinson

Novel

The Power Audience Reviews

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

a_chinn Colorful supernatural thriller from producer George Pal has George Hamilton playing a scientist who discovers someone on his team has telekinetic powers and is killing off members one by one. Police investigating the first murder believe Hamilton lied about his background and is now a suspect after no one can find any evidence of his academic records. Hamilton must then figure out and stop whoever it is is using their powers to ruin his him and who is killing off his colleagues. "The Power" features some cool 1960s psychedelic special effects, a nice score by golden age composer Miklós Rózsa, a solid mystery, and a cool psychic showdown finale. Not a classic, but pretty entertaining stuff and a bit more serious than most of producer Pal's usual output. Suzanne Pleshette also appears in the film as a fellow scientist helping Hamilton.

LeonLouisRicci The Mid-60's was a troubling time for Movies in that the Culture was changing so fast in attitudes and style that most times Hollywood was not able to keep up and had difficulty making and marketing Films that looked contemporary. This is a good example of this shortcoming.It looks so Hollywood and has an artificial feel that was quickly becoming outdated as traditions were falling and anything that revealed itself as insincere or plastic was becoming painfully transparent. Here, some Men still wear Fedoras but if they become any smaller they will blink out of existence. Traditions die hard.There is some awful miscasting here, Earl Holliman the worst, but there are others (Pleshette). The interesting and fairly new Sci-Fi Plot device of telekinesis and Mind "Power" is given a serious treatment but the fault lies in the overall unfolding of a rather standard Police chase. There are a few eerie scenes, just not enough, and the Movie suffers from a rather confusing Villainous motivation.A mismatch of interesting themes with some good use of Color but even there it has that Studio look too often and after all is said and done (or mostly implied), this is a curious oddity that may be enjoyed for a look at an OOPART (out of place artifact) that is stiffly entertaining. Too bad it is has a consistently dated look because it is trying so hard to be so "Tomorrow" and it comes off as being "Yesterday", especially when it was released.

moonspinner55 A panel of brilliant professors studying human endurance for the space program discover one of their colleagues harbors transcendental powers and is out to kill each one of them (causing heart attacks by the force of his mind). A good example of the major studio B-picture: most of the budget has gone into the 'idea', presented here with sleek visuals and designs, yet with a middle-drawer cast left to sort out the screenplay, which is distinctly without much power. George Pal produced, with amusing shock effects and editing tricks, but the potentially intriguing plot gets muddled up in dead-end scenes and red herrings. Suzanne Pleshette (as the one female on the panel) looks lovely, yet her character keeps popping up without explanation--and her confusing final scene leaves behind nothing but disenchantment. George Hamilton is the film's star, which should tell you how much thought went into the casting. ** from ****

AFernandez58 George Pal's/Byron Haskin's version of "The Power" (based on the good novel by Frank Robinson, not the baseball player) is actually pretty entertaining and thrilling despite the relatively poor production values - quite a bit of 1960s cheesiness - but still the cast of stalwarts gives it all and it is probably the best George Pal film after 1960's "The Time Machine." Acting kudos go to Michael Rennie, Aldo Ray (!!!) and even, who would have thought it, star George Hamilton. This is one of those films whose concept far exceeds its execution but I still feel somewhat generous as I remembered it fondly from my youth and seeing it about 30 years later found out that it held up pretty well.And a great score by Miklos Rozsa too.