
The Calling(2014)
Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Port Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.


“The other side of sanity”
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.

James Coburn
Patman

Kate Nelligan
Peabody

Fionnula Flanagan
Abadaba

Leslie Carlson
Mr. Abernathy
Candy Kane
Mrs. Beckman

Michael Kirby
Dr. Turley

Alan McRae
Dr. Bloom

Jan Rubeš
Vrakettas
Hugh Webster
Mr. Wolfe

Lynne Griffin
Monica
Mr. Patman is a thriller film released in 1981. Directed by John Guillermin, it stars James Coburn, Kate Nelligan, Fionnula Flanagan. Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.
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