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The Stone Tape

The Stone Tape

19726.01h 30m

Overview

A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...

Directed by Peter Sasdy
Written by Nigel Kneale, Louis Marks
Produced by Innes Lloyd
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Michael Bryant

Michael Bryant

Peter Brock

Jane Asher

Jane Asher

Jill Greeley

Iain Cuthbertson

Iain Cuthbertson

Roy Collinson

Michael Bates

Michael Bates

Eddie Holmes

Reginald Marsh

Reginald Marsh

Crawshaw

Tom Chadbon

Tom Chadbon

Hargrave

John Forgeham

John Forgeham

Maudsley

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Philip Trewinnard

Stewart Jessop

James Cosmo

James Cosmo

Cliff Dow

Neil Wilson

Neil Wilson

Sergeant Paterson

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Themes & Keywords

supernatural

About The Stone Tape

The Stone Tape is a horror, tv movie, mystery, drama film released in 1972 exploring themes of supernatural. Directed by Peter Sasdy, it stars Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson. A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...

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