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Harlequin Reviews

  • 1980
  • 1 hr 36 mins
  • Drama, Horror, Fantasy
  • PG
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In this modern-day version of the Rasputin story, David Hemmings plays an up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, whose young son is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.

Powell plays the title character, a modern-day Rasputin, who cures the leukemia-stricken child of a powerful senator (Hemmings) and seduces the politician's wife (Duncan). Seeing the potentially dangerous healer rising in the nation's power structure, Doc Wheelan (Crawford) sets out to ruin the mysterious man. Another interesting film from Down Under.