The Shout Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 15970

Average Rating: 2.4/4

# of Ratings: 6

Theatrical Release Date: 11/09/1979

Language: English

Genre: Horror, Drama

MPAA Rating: R

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

Actors: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Tim Curry, Robert Stephens, Julian Hough

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dukeakasmudge - wrote on 09/04/2011

What a load of crap & boring to

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Bribaba - wrote on 05/05/2011

The backdrop to this startling tale is that bastion of English civility: the cricket match. Going to the wicket here are the staff and inmates at a mental asylum. Keeping score is a young intern and Crossley (Alan Bates), a man whose needs are special and very possibly insane. During the course of the game he describes to his fellow scorer how his life have come to such a pass. He claims to have been living amongst Aborigines for eighteen years, and to have learned how to kill by shouting. In flashback we are taken to Devon where he takes up with a young rural couple (John Hurt and Susannah York) who are skeptical of this and most of his other scary stories. Unsurprisingly considering that, as narrators go, they don’t come much more unreliable than mental patients.

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