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Seen on: 05/21/2012

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Death Line (1972)

Directed by Gary Sherman

Horror

Most recently watched by sensoria, krazykat

Overview

There’s something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are a young couple who get nearer to the horrors underground than they would wish.

Rated R | Length 87 minutes

Actors

Christopher Lee | Donald Pleasence | Norman Rossington | David Ladd | Sharon Gurney | Hugh Armstrong | June Turner | Clive Swift | James Cossins | Heather Stoney | Colin McCormack | Hugh Dickson | James Culliford | Ron Pember | Jack Woolgar | Gerry Crampton | Gary Winkler | Suzanne Winkler | Terry Plummer | Gordon Petrie

Viewing Notes

The best thing about this movie is the lurid poster. Otherwise it’s a pretty boring take on something that had a lot of potential. Donald Pleasence’s inspector character is so bizarre that you can’t even laugh at it; you just kind of stare blankly at the screen and ask yourself “WTF”?

Christopher Lee makes a single appearance, in which he steals the scene of course, as some MI5 director whose involvement in the film and plot baffling.

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