Daughter of the Mind
1969 | 90m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Walter Grauman |
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| Writer: | Paul Gallico |
| Staring: |
| Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working. | |
| Release Date: | Dec 09, 1969 |
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| Director: | Walter Grauman |
| Writer: | Paul Gallico |
| Genres: | Horror, Thriller, TV Movie |
| Keywords | loss of loved one, supernatural, ghost, esp, dead daughter |
| Production Companies | 20th Century Fox Television, ABC |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 29, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Don Murray | Dr. Alex Lauder |
| Ray Milland | Prof. Samuel Hale Constable |
| Gene Tierney | Lenore Constable |
| Barbara Dana | Tina Cryder |
| Ed Asner | Saul Wiener |
| Pamelyn Ferdin | Mary Constable |
| William Beckley | Arnold Watson Bessmer |
| Ivor Barry | Dr. Paul Cryder |
| George Macready | Dr. Frank Ferguson |
| John Carradine | Mr. Bosch |
| Virginia Christine | Helga |
| Cecile Ozorio | Devi Bessmer |
| Frank Maxwell | General Augstadt |
| Hal Frederick | C.I.C. Technician |
| Bill Hickman | Enemy Agent |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Luther Davis | Teleplay |
| Paul Gallico | Novel |
| Robert Drasnin | Original Music Composer |
| Lionel Newman | Music Supervisor |
| Jack Woolf | Cinematography |
| Walter Grauman | Director |
| Michael Economou | Editor |
| Philip Barber | Art Direction |
| Jack Martin Smith | Art Direction |
| Walter M. Scott | Set Decoration |
| Sven Wickman | Set Decoration |
| Samuel E. Beetley | Post Production Supervisor |
| Jack Sonntag | Production Supervisor |
| Harry Templeton | Unit Production Manager |
| Larry Powell | Assistant Director |
| L.B. Abbott | Special Effects |
| Art Cruickshank | Special Effects |
| Arthur Semon | Executive Story Editor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| William Kayden | Associate Producer |
| Walter Grauman | Producer |
| Charles B. Fitzsimons | Supervising Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Trending Position
At times, this is quite a decent supernatural drama with Ray Milland ("Prof. Constable") as a man haunted by the recent death of his young daughter. When driving home from the cemetery one night, he is certain that he has seen her, heard her - almost touched her! He decides that either this is a rea ... l psychic phenomenon or he is being had, so consults cybernetics man "Lauder" (Don Murray) to get to the bottom of it. FBI man Ed Asner ("Wiener") also has an interest in the case as it transpires that "Constable" is, unwittingly, working for the government on some top secret project and it soon looks like there is a third hand at work here and manipulation on a grand scale is afoot. The use of the visual effects and audio is quite effective in recreating a plausible scenario of re-incarnation but the score from Robert Drasnin overwhelms any subtlety and even Milland's acting is a bit too by the book. There is little by way of menace and as the political storyline develops, it really stops being very interesting. Still, worth watching for the first half hour.