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The Keeper
The Keeper
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  2. The Keeper

The Keeper

1976
1h 28m
Mystery
Horror
Drama

Status

Released

Release

1976

Runtime

1h 28m

Storyline

"Christopher Lee, master of the macabre, takes you and his patients to the brink of insanity."

The Keeper of Underwood Asylum has the mental patients of the wealthiest families in British Columbia. The rest of the family members have been dying under mysterious circumstances, so Biggs hires private investigator Richard Driver, who puts his assistant, Maybelline, in the asylum pretending she is his cousin and that they came from a family where the parents were all first cousins to each other and they decided to keep their love platonic for genetic reasons. Then he tries to get Inspector Clarke to check him in as a narcoleptic who didn't wake up with his body. They all know what the keeper has been doing, but it is a matter of proving it, and avoiding the hypnotized Biggs twins and Danny, who he is able to keep catatonic with his machine. Inspector Clarke gives driver a lot of trouble, and the kid giving shoe shines looks down on everybody, knowing more.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 28m
Jan 1, 1976
Languages
English
Director
T.Y. Drake
Production
Lionsgate Productions
Lionsgate Productions
Canadian Film Development Corporation
Canadian Film Development Corporation
Production Countries
Canada

Top Cast

34 Cast Members

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

The Keeper

Tell Schreiber

Dick Driver

Sally Drake

Mae B. Jones

Ross Vezarian

Inspector Clarke

Ian Tracey

Ian Tracey

The Kid

Bing Jensen

Denny

Jack Leavy

The Biggs Twins

Leo Leavy

The Biggs Twins

Malcolm Britton

The Homicide Squad

Michael Meade

The Homicide Squad

Burke Lundy

The Homicide Squad

David Engleman

Inmate

Wendy Who

Inmate

Victor Mallia

Inmate

Laura Thaw

Inmate

Alex Kliner

Alex Kliner

Inmate

Vikki Vogel

Inmate

Paddy White

Inmate

Edith Powell

Inmate

Christian Bruyère

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