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The Keeper

Christopher Lee, master of the macabre, takes you and his patients to the brink of insanity.
Jan 1, 1976 · 1h 28m
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Horror
Drama

PLOT

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.

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CAST

Christopher Lee
The Keeper
Tell Schreiber
Dick Driver
Sally Drake
Mae B. Jones
Ross Vezarian
Inspector Clarke
Ian Tracey
The Kid
Bing Jensen
Denny
Jack Leavy
The Biggs Twins
Leo Leavy
The Biggs Twins
Directed by T.Y. Drake

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Lionsgate Productions, Canadian Film Development Corporation
Country
US

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