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  • Director: Lee Philips
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Melodrama
  • Release Year: 1974
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 74 minutes

Plot

Richard Matheson picked and chose the most effective elements of such earlier films as Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, then glossed over all with his own original touch. The result was this superior (if occasionally wavering) TV movie. Barbara Eden, who after five years of I Dream of Jeannie was no stranger to the supernatural, is here cast as a mother-to-be whose baby is inducing more than the standard kicks and labor pains. Fact is, the little stranger in the womb is an extraterrestrial being, bent upon controlling Eden's body and mind. The Stranger Within should not be watched in a natural-childbirth class anywhere at any time. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

David F. Doyle; Barbara Eden; George Grizzard; Nehemiah Persoff; Joyce Van Patten

Credit

Lee Philips - Director, Charles Fox - Composer (Music Score), Richard Matheson - Screenwriter
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The Stranger Within
Directed by Lee Philips
Produced by Neil T. Maffeo
Written by Richard Matheson
Starring Barbara Eden
George Grizzard
Joyce Van Patten
David Doyle
Nehemiah Persoff
Music by Charles Fox
Cinematography Michael D. Margulies
Editing by Samuel E. Beetley
Distributed by ABC
Release date(s) October 1, 1971
Running time 74 min.
Country USA
Language English

The Stranger Within is a 1974 science fiction film that premiered on ABC on October 1, 1974, as the ABC Movie of the Week. The film was inspired by Rosemary's Baby, but included a science-fiction twist.[1]

The film was directed by Lee Philips and starred Barbara Eden and George Grizzard.

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Plot

Ann Collins (Barbara Eden) and her husband David Collins (George Grizzard) are expecting a baby. Unfortunately, Ann is experiencing intense kicking and labor pains. Unbeknownst to the couple is that Ann is expecting an extraterrestrial being that is attempting to take over Ann's mind and body.

DVD release

The Stranger Within was released on Region 1 DVD on October 6, 2009 from the online Warner Bros. Archive Collection.

References

  1. ^ The Terror Trap: The Stranger Within

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