Top cast:Mary Maurice,Robert Gaillard
Director:Damián Szifron
Genre:Sci-Fi
Region:Egypt
Year:2004
Storyline:" Brent communicated with the mutant priest telepathically, and shouted back at him in conversation, sensing that Nova was in danger and needed to be saved: "What do you mean there""s no point? Will they hurt her? No, maybe not physically, but here (he gestured toward his brain).This was Polanski""s last film made on location in the US.Writer Robert Towne""s screenplay was partially based on a true Los Angeles scandal in the early part of the 20th century (the story of the nefarious 1908 Owens Valley ""Rape"" and scandalous San Fernando Valley land-grab by speculators).The only two adult chaperones were introduced in relation to one of the students:Miss Colleen Van Deusen (Barbara Bingham), he favorite teacher of gifted 17 year-old Rennie Wickham (Jensen Daggett) with her dog TobyRennie""s detestable, narrow-minded uncle/legal guardian Charles McCulloch (Peter Mark Richman).Rough-hewn, but handsome gumshoe/police detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) of the Homicide Bureau examines the interior of Lydecker""s apartment until the writer calls to him (from off-camera) o join him in his lavish bathroom:McPherson: Nice little place you have here, Lydecker.