Movies
April, 1974
There was no stinting by writer-producer William Peter Blatty nor director William Friedkin on The Exorcist. The film version of Blatty's best seller cost a reported $10,000,000, most of it splashed upon the screen in a deluxe display of opulent settings, fine acting, unnerving special effects and grand camerawork (by Owen Roizman, with an assist from England's ace cinematographer Billy Williams, who shot the hypnotic, ominous prolog in Iraq). Above all, the movie is a triumph of technology--a c...
