The Ninth Configuration (1980, William Peter Blatty)
The Ninth Configuration (1980, William Peter Blatty) 1080p A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U. S. Army soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combating his own longsuppressed insanity. The Ninth Configuration (also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane) is a 1980 American film directed by William Peter Blatty. It is based on Blatty s novel The Ninth Configuration (1978), which was itself a reworking of an earlier version of the novel, first published in 1966 as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane . The initial 1966 publication of the novel featured an exclamation mark at the end of the title, while all subsequent publications saw it removed. The first half of the film has the predominant tone and style of a comic farce. In the second half, the film becomes darker as it delves deeper into its central issues of human suffering, sacrifice and faith. The film also frequently blur
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