Byron Haskin directed this film produced by George Pal. The story concerns members of a research team being killed one by one with telekinesis. A very interesting concept.
George Hamilton stars as Jim Tanner, the head of a research team that tests endurance of people in physical and mental pain. Suddenly people start dying and Jim is framed for the crimes.
Tanner and his girlfriend Margery Lansing (Suzanne Pleashette) find their lives in danger from someone they cannot see, but has the ability to move and change things with their mind.
Tanner must find the killer before everyone on the team is killed, including him. This is a very well told story, and it moves along quite well. It runs a little long, but if you get involved in the story it flies right by.
There are a lot of familiar faces in this film including Yvonne DeCarlo, Arthur O'Connell, Richard Carlson, Michael Rennie, Earl Holliman, Gary Merrill, Barbara Nichols, Beverly Hills, Nehemiah Persoff, Aldo Ray, Vaughn Taylor, Celia Lovsky and Miiko Taka.
I'm not going to give anything away, but with such a great cast and story this works well. The climax is a very interesting one and the closing line by Tanner is and always has been very true.
If you ever get a chance to see this, you should. It's a wonderful trip into the land of mind control and dark conspiracy.
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