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The Ninth Configuration (Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane) (1979)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 9
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Release Date: Feb 29, 1980 Wide

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William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, proved a workmanlike producer/director for 1979's The Ninth Configuration. Army psychiatrist Col. Kane (Stacy Keach) (teetering on the sanity brink himself) tries to minister to the patients in a military mental hospital. The fact that the hospital is located in a brooding old castle is hardly conducive to speedy recoveries. Nor does the mid-film barroom brawl indicate that Kane's approach to mental health is all that workable. Blatty adapted the

R, 1 hr. 55 min.

Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy

Directed By: William Peter Blatty

Written By: William Peter Blatty

In Theaters: Feb 29, 1980 Wide

On DVD: Sep 17, 2002

Cast

Stacy Keach
Col. Kane
Scott Wilson
Capt. Cutshaw
Jason Miller
Lt. Reno
Ed Flanders
Col. Fell
Neville Brand
Maj. Groper
Moses Gunn
Maj. Nammack
Robert Loggia
Lt. Bennish
George DiCenzo
Capt. Fairbanks
Joe Spinell
Spinell
Alejandro Rey
Lt. Gomez
Tom Atkins
Sgt. Krebs
Steve Sandor
First Cyclist
Richard Lynch
Second Cyclist
Bruce Boa
Sergeant in Combat Shac...
David Healy
1st General
Bobby Bass
Driver
Bill [William] Lucking
Highway Patrolman
Tom Shaw
Priest
Mark Gordon
Sergeant Gilman

Critic Reviews for The Ninth Configuration (Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane)

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (3) | DVD (5)

unusual dark comedy, with stacy keach at his best.

January 24, 2005 Comment

Michael E. Grost

Classic Film and Television

At its worst, it is supposed to be profound; at its best it's amusing

June 30, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Shane Burridge

rec.arts.movies.reviews

Should be the centerpiece of a Stacy Keach shrine somewhere . . . should one ever be erected.

March 18, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Brian Mckay

eFilmCritic.com

Brilliant, funny, moving examination of faith from Blatty.

December 29, 2002 Comment

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

An allegory that's so impossibly overstuffed that it can't help but explode

July 15, 2002 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com

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Jeremy Heilman

MovieMartyr.com

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A Marx Brothers movie, with theology.

July 12, 2007

Pierluigi Puccini

Super Reviewer

30 years before the disappointing Shutter Island took viewers to a remote mental asylum with a world-turned-upside-down storyline, William Peter Blatty gave us this supremely fucked-up account of a Marine Corp Colonel (played rather brilliantly by the passive Stacy Keach) that is assigned to take over an asylum housing

December 1, 2010