The Ninth Configuration (Blu-ray)

William Peter Blatty, author of THE EXORCIST, proved a workmanlike producer/director for 1979's THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. Army psychiatrist Col. Kane (Stacy Keach) (teetering on the sanity brink himself) tries to minister to the patients in a military mental hospital. The fact that the hospital is located in a brooding old castle is hardly conducive to speedy recoveries. Nor does the mid-film barroom brawl indicate that Kane's approach to mental health is all that workable. Blatty adapted the screenplay for THE NINTH CONFIGURATION from his own novel TWINKLE, TWINKLE, 'Killer' Kane (which also served as the film's title during one of it's many releases). there a God or an afterlife? the result is a film that is by turns hilarious yet suspenseful and moving.

Starring: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand, Moses Gunn, George DiCenzo, Robert Loggia, Joe Spinell, Alejandro Rey, Tom Atkins, Steve Sandor, Richard Lynch, Mark Gordon, William Lucking, Stephen Powers, David Healy, William Paul, Tom Shaw, Gordon K Kee, Bruce Boa, Linda Blatty, Marilyn Raymon, Hobby Gilman, Bobby Bass, William Peter Blatty

Director: Tom Shaw, William Peter Blatty

Rating: R