Casting the Runes (1979)
The producer of an investigative television programme which is critical of an occultist finds out that he has a curse put on her.
- Date of release
- 1979-04-24
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 49m
- Genres
- Mystery, TV Movie, Horror, Thriller
- Director
- Lawrence Gordon Clark
Casting
- Iain Cuthbertson — Julian Carswell
- Jan Francis — Prudence Dunning
- Bernard Gallagher — Derek Gayton
- Joanna Dunham — Jean Gayton
- Edward Petherbridge — Henry Harrington
- Christopher Good — John Harrington
- Patricia Shakesby — Elise Marriott
- David Calder — John Marriott
- Jane Lowe — Joanna
- Alan Downer — Peter
- Clifford Parrish — Wiggin
- Christine Buckley — Housekeeper
Interesting facts
Casting the Runes is a British supernatural television drama produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1979. Running at 50 minutes, it is based on the story Casting the Runes by British writer and academic M. R. James, first published in 1911 as the fourth story in More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, which was James' second collection of ghost stories. Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark for the anthology series ITV Playhouse, it was first broadcast on 24 April 1979. Adapted by Clive Exton, it reimagines the events of James's story taking place in the late 1970s and changes the central protagonist to be a female character.
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