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The Projection Booth Podcast

Episode 323: The Ninth Configuration (1980)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Summary

Written and directed by William Peter Blatty, The Ninth Configuration (1980) has been known at points and was based on his novel Twinkle Twinkle Killer Kane. The film stars Stacy Keach as Col. Hudson Kane, a new psychiatrist at an unusual retreat for men who have cracked up during the Vietnam War. Also at this fog shrouded castle is Captain Billy Cutshaw (Scott Wilson), an astronaut who freaked out before his mission to the moon. The two men are at odds about the world, especially around the question of faith.

Heather Drain and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss the Blatty, The Exorcist, Legion, and starting a Joe Spinell street gang.
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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.5

Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.

0:07.6

Somebody's coming.

0:15.7

Toward the end of the war in Vietnam, an unusually high percentage of American servicemen suddenly manifested symptoms

0:22.4

of psychosis. Most of them were in combat or slated for combat and had no prior history of

0:28.1

mental disturbance. These facts, plus the epidemic scope of the problem and the controversial nature

0:33.5

of the Vietnam War, led American authorities to wonder whether many, if not most of the

0:38.4

men, were faking. Among its inmates was an astronaut who, during final countdown, had aborted

0:45.1

a mission into outer space. You're going to be able to court. Abort.

0:56.5

A boy, sir.

0:58.3

There's nothing up there.

1:00.8

Nothing!

1:01.8

Move that!

1:03.0

Move it, you weird.

1:05.3

Come on a quarter for the movies, please.

1:07.5

Damn, son.

1:09.1

There's no color in the air.

1:10.9

What country is this?

1:12.4

The Bronx.

1:14.0

Tees Hutt.

1:15.1

Cutsho, the astronaut.

1:16.6

I'm Colonel Hudson, Kane.

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