The Norliss Tapes

The Norliss Tapes (1973)

A newspaper publisher listens to the personal tapes of investigative reporter David Norliss, who has disappeared during an investigation. The tapes tell the story of that investigation, involving a recent widow whose late husband has been seen working in his private studio. As Norliss and the widow investigate, they unravel a plot involving Voodoo and the walking dead.

Date of release
1973-02-21
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 12m
Genres
Horror, TV Movie, Thriller
Director
Dan Curtis

Casting

Interesting facts

The Norliss Tapes is a 1973 American made-for-television horror film directed by Dan Curtis and written by William F. Nolan, starring Roy Thinnes and Angie Dickinson. Framed through a series of tapes left behind by the missing David Norliss (Thinnes), an investigator of the occult, it tells the story of his encounter with Ellen Sterns Cort (Dickinson), a widow and her artist husband James who has returned from the dead.

Production

Originally written under the working title Demon, The Norliss Tapes was adapted from a story by Fred Mustard Stewart; writer William F. Nolan said that he took Stewart's basic premise of a "walking dead man" and adapted it into a teleplay that was mostly made up of his own ideas. The film was shot in San Francisco and Monterey, California.

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