Echoes
Brief Synopsis
An artist is being driven to distraction by recurring nightmares about someone trying to kill him. When a psychic tells him that a brother from a past life is appearing to him in his dreams, he must confront his past to save his current life.
Cast & Crew
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Arthur A. Seidelman
Director
Richard Alfieri
Alberto Serrano; Michael Durant
Nathalie Nell
Christine
Mercedes Mccambridge
Lilian Gerber
Ruth Roman
Michael'S Mother
Gale Sondergaard
Mrs Edmonds
Film Details
Also Known As
Living Nightmare
MPAA Rating
Genre
Fantasy
Romance
Thriller
Release Date
1983
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 29m
Synopsis
An artist is being driven to distraction by recurring nightmares about someone trying to kill him. When a psychic tells him that a brother from a past life is appearing to him in his dreams, he must confront his past to save his current life.
Director
Arthur A. Seidelman
Director
Cast
Richard Alfieri
Alberto Serrano; Michael Durant
Nathalie Nell
Christine
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Mercedes Mccambridge
Lilian Gerber
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Ruth Roman
Michael'S Mother
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Gale Sondergaard
Mrs Edmonds
Mike Kellin
Sid Berman
John Spencer
Stephen
Paul Joynt
Ed
Leonard Crofoot
Danny
Sylvia Fay
Extras
Crew
Randle Akerson
Assistant Editor
Richard Alfrieri
Song Performer ("Time Out Of Mind")
Richard Anthony
Screenwriter
Douglas Armstrong
Key Grip
Hanania Baer
Director Of Photography
Fred Berner
Production Manager
Valerie Y Bolsky
Producer
Ron Bozman
Unit Manager
Henry Bronchtein
2nd Assistant Director
Frank Cocarro
Set Decorator
George Bernard Cohen
Additional Music
Anne Couk
Assistant Editor
Renaldo Dejuan
Other
Neal Deluca
Art Direction
Frank Desmond
Props
Eva Fyer
Production Office Coordinator
Sam Garite
Other
Robert W Glass
Sound Rerecording Mixer
Adrienne Hamalian-mangine
Script Supervisor
Etelvina Hutchins
Spanish Dialogue Consultant
Peter Kunz
Special Effects
Harry Lapham
Sound Recording Mixer
Jennifer Lax
Costumes
Eric Liebowitz
Stills
Harry Madsen
Stunt Coordinator
Frank Mason
Other
Ethel Johnson Meyers
Technical Advisor
Danni Nelson
Hairstyles
George R Nice
Producer
Dan Perry
Editor
Julio Piedra
Makeup
Carol Polakoff
Assistant Director
John Posimato
Props
Barry E Rosenthal
Executive Producer
Stephen Schwartz
Music
Stephen Schwartz
Song
Myles Spector
Associate Producer
Jill Stockland
Makeup
Robert M Thirlwell
Special Effects Rerecording Mixer
Dennis Wayne
Choreography
Elisabeth Wertz
Assistant Editor
John Wilkinson
Sound Rerecording Mixer
Film Details
Also Known As
Living Nightmare
MPAA Rating
Genre
Fantasy
Romance
Thriller
Release Date
1983
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 29m
Articles
Mercedes McCambridge (1916-2004)
She was born Charlotte Mercedes McCambridge on March 16, 1916, in Joliet, Illinois. After graduation from Mundelein College in Chicago, she acted in local radio, doing everything from children's programs to soap operas. By the early '40s, she relocated to New York, where her powerful voice kept her busy as one of the top radio actresses of her day, including a stint with Orson Wells' radio dramas.
In the late '40s she appeared successfully in several Broadway productions, and this led a call from Hollywood. In her film debut, she was cast as Broderick Crawford's scheming mistress in All the King's Men (1949) and won an Oscar® for her fine performance.
Despite her strong start, McCambridge's film roles would be very sporadic over the years. Her strengths were her husky voice, square build, and forthright personae, not exactly qualities for an ingenue. Instead, McCambridge took interesting parts in some quirky movies: playing a self-righteous church leader opposite Joan Crawford in one of the cinema's great cult Westerns, Nicholas Ray's kinky Johnny Guitar (1954); a key role as Rock Hudson's sister in George Stevens' epic Giant (1956, a second Oscar® nomination), and as a gang leader in Orson Wells' magnificent noir thriller Touch of Evil (1958).
By the '60s, McCambridge's career was hampered by bouts of alcoholism, and apart for her voice work as the demon in William Friedkin's The Exorcist(1973, where the director cruelly omitted her from the credits before the Screen Actors Guild intervened and demanded that she receive proper recognition), the parts she found toward the end of her career were hardly highpoints. Some fairly forgettable films: Thieves (1977), The Concorde - Airport '79 (1979) and guest roles in some routine television shows such as Charlie's Angels and Cagney & Lacey were all she could find before quietly retiring from the screen.
It should be noted that McCambridge finished her career on a high note, when in the early '90s, Neil Simon asked her to play the role of the grandmother in Lost in Yonkers on Broadway. Her return to the New York stage proved to be a great success, and McCambridge would perform the play for a phenomenal 560 performances. They were no surviving family members at the time of her death.
by Michael T. Toole
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Mercedes McCambridge (1916-2004)
Veteran character actress Mercedes McCambridge, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar® for All the King's Men, and later provided the scary voice of a demon-possessed Linda Blair in The Exorcist, died from natural causes on March 2 in a rest home in San Diego. She was 87.
She was born Charlotte Mercedes McCambridge on March 16, 1916, in Joliet, Illinois. After graduation from Mundelein College in Chicago, she acted in local radio, doing everything from children's programs to soap operas. By the early '40s, she relocated to New York, where her powerful voice kept her busy as one of the top radio actresses of her day, including a stint with Orson Wells' radio dramas.
In the late '40s she appeared successfully in several Broadway productions, and this led a call from Hollywood. In her film debut, she was cast as Broderick Crawford's scheming mistress in All the King's Men (1949) and won an Oscar® for her fine performance.
Despite her strong start, McCambridge's film roles would be very sporadic over the years. Her strengths were her husky voice, square build, and forthright personae, not exactly qualities for an ingenue. Instead, McCambridge took interesting parts in some quirky movies: playing a self-righteous church leader opposite Joan Crawford in one of the cinema's great cult Westerns, Nicholas Ray's kinky Johnny Guitar (1954); a key role as Rock Hudson's sister in George Stevens' epic Giant (1956, a second Oscar® nomination), and as a gang leader in Orson Wells' magnificent noir thriller Touch of Evil (1958).
By the '60s, McCambridge's career was hampered by bouts of alcoholism, and apart for her voice work as the demon in William Friedkin's The Exorcist(1973, where the director cruelly omitted her from the credits before the Screen Actors Guild intervened and demanded that she receive proper recognition), the parts she found toward the end of her career were hardly highpoints. Some fairly forgettable films: Thieves (1977), The Concorde - Airport '79 (1979) and guest roles in some routine television shows such as Charlie's Angels and Cagney & Lacey were all she could find before quietly retiring from the screen.
It should be noted that McCambridge finished her career on a high note, when in the early '90s, Neil Simon asked her to play the role of the grandmother in Lost in Yonkers on Broadway. Her return to the New York stage proved to be a great success, and McCambridge would perform the play for a phenomenal 560 performances. They were no surviving family members at the time of her death.
by Michael T. Toole
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Released in United States Winter January 1, 1983
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1983