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The Possessed is a american film of genre Horror directed by Jerry Thorpe released in USA on 1 may 1977 with James Farentino
The Possessed (1977)
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Add to a movie listThe Possessed is a 1977 American television horror film directed by Jerry Thorpe, written by John Sacret Young, and starring James Farentino, Joan Hackett, Diana Scarwid, and Harrison Ford. It is about a priest who returns from the dead to battle satanic forces at an all-girls school.
The film was shot on location at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1976.
Synopsis
Kevin Leahy, an alcoholic Catholic priest who has strayed from his faith, crashes his car and is pronounced dead at the scene. As penance, he is sent back to Earth to fight evil as an exorcist, and returns to life. The Helen Page School, a Catholic all-girls college in Salem, Oregon is on the brink of graduation season, and are about to go coed the following semester. Ellen Sumner (Claudette Nevins), is a teacher at the school, where her daughter, Weezie, attends. One evening, the paper in Ellen's typewriter inexplicably bursts into flames.Actors
James Farentino
(Kevin Leahy)
Joan Hackett
(Louise Gelson)
Harrison Ford
(Paul Winjam)
Claudette Nevins
(Ellen Sumner)
P. J. Soles
(Marty)
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