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Christopher Walken, the young electronics expert and criminal in Sean Connery's The Anderson Tapes, has had the tables turned on him in his latest film The Mind Snatchers. In this gripping new modern-day horror film Christopher is a young Army private who is the "victim" of electronic mind probing experiments. The Mind Snatchers stars Walken with Ralph Meeker and Ronny Cox, who is currently appearing with Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight in Deliverance. The Cinerama Releasing picture is based on the New York stage hit, The Happiness Cage. Bernard Girard directed for producers Richard Lewis and George Goodman.
HOLLYWOOD TURNS TO OFF-BROADWAY FOR NEW FILMS (Filler Material) While the Broadway stage has always been a source of new Hollywood films, New York's Off-Broadway stage is now being tapped for some of the screen's most popular new films. Two recent examples are The Mind Snatchers, a horror-suspense film about the terrifying electronic manipulation of men's minds, and BLACK GIRL, Ossie Davis' sensitive and powerful film. The Mind Snatchers stars Christopher Walken as the young G.I. The Mind Snatchers was first presented at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York during the 1970-71 season, titled The Happiness Cage. Bernard Girard directed for co-producers Richard Lewis and George Goodman. The Mind Snatchers is distributed by Cinerama Releasing. ABOUT THE CAST CHRISTOPHER WALKEN -- The young actor who portrays Private James Reese in The Mind Snatchers is considered of the most talented young men in the American Theater today. Of his performance at the Yale Repertory Theater production of Caligula, New York Times critic Walter Kerr said he was "astonishing and spectacular." Drama critic Martin Gotfried called him "simply stupendous" adding that no other American leading man is in Walken's class. Christopher was the only American actor invited to appear at the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Ontario in the 1968 season where he played Romeo and also Lysander in Midsummer Night's Dream. In New York, Walken received the Theater World Award for his performance as the sailor in the Maureen Stapleton revival of The Rose Tattoo. He is also the winner of the Clarence Derwent Award for his outstanding performance as Phillip in The Lion in Winter. More recently he starred in the Lincoln Center production of Peter Ustinov's The Unknown Soldier and His Wife and in Michael Cacoyannis' Iphogenia in Aulis. In addition to a number of Off-Broadway appearances and a starring role in the touring company of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Walken made his motion picture debut last year as the young electronics expert in Sean Connery's The Anderson Tapes.
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