The Manitou

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The Manitou ★★ 1978 (PG)

A San Francisco woman suffers from a rapidly growing neck tumor which eventually grows into a 400-year-old Indian witch doctor. (I hate when that happens.) Redeemed only by good special effects, especially those that kept Curtis, Strasberg, and Meredith from laughing. 104m/C VHS, DVD . Susan Strasberg, Tony Curtis, Stella Stevens, Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ansara, Jon Cedar, Paul Mantee, Lurene Tuttle, Jeanette Nolan; D: William Girdler; W: William Girdler, Tom Pope, Jon Cedar; C: Michael Hugo; M: Lalo Schifrin

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