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The Exorcist
Cast
Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb View AllCrew
William Friedkin (Director), William Peter Blatty (Screenplay) View All
Release: Dec. 26th, 1973
Runtime: 2 hours, 2 minutes
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How and why does Burke Dennings die in the Exorcist
I always had this question about the movie. This happens off screen and yet they don't provide proper information to connect the dots. I am talking about the death of the director of Ellen Burstyn's m...
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Even though this was my first true viewing of the movie, I've seen so many scenes before--- the "pea-soup" scene, the "360-degree-head-turn" scene, "the power-of-Christ-compels-you" scene, as well as numerous other iconic scenes from the movie--- that it hampered my enjoyment of the movie.

In all the movie there might be a few minutes worth of material that could have been dropped to make the film little tighter but otherwise it's nearly perfect.

it won two Oscars, one for best adapted screenplay (Blatty), one for best sound (Knudson, Newman), and was the first horror movie ever to be nominated for best picture.