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Jan 6, 2013 · At the beginning of the film, a man named Graves (played by a young Tim Curry) arrives at a psychiatric hospital to help keep score for a cricket match. In the score booth with him is a man named Crossley, played by Alan Bates.
"The Shout" opens during a cricket match between the staff and inmates of an insane asylum, and cricket, of course, is such a crazy game anyway that you can't tell the teams apart. One of the inmates is the scorekeeper, and as he keeps score he tells a visitor of a strange and desolate story.
The couple are played by John Hurt ('The Elephant Man') and Susannah York ('Superman'), and they are both first rate, as is Tim Curry ('Rocky Horror') in a smaller but important supporting role. But as good as they all are this is Bates' movie all the way in an unforgettable performance.
Nov 17, 2014 · Robert Graves (Tim Curry) joins the mysterious Crossley (Alan Bates) in the scoring hut, where Crossley opens up and tells Graves a story. Avant-garde composer Anthony Fielding (John Hurt) and his partner Rachel (Susannah York) live in a dilapidated farm house in North Devon.
- Simon Ball
The Shout: Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. With Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens. A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
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- Drama, Horror
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- 1979-08-10
The Shout is a 1978 British horror film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It was based on a short story by Robert Graves and adapted for the screen by Skolimowski and Michael Austin. The film was the first to be produced by Jeremy Thomas under his Recorded Picture Company banner.
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Sep 16, 2014 · The Shout is a 1978 British movie adapted for the screen from a story by Robert Graves (I, Claudius). Rachel and Anthony (Susannah York and John Hurt) lead a sedate and relatively-happily...
