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4.8/10   164 votes
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Director:
Michael Anderson
Writers:
Michael Butler (screenplay) &
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Release Date:
December 1982 (USA) more
Plot:
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered... more | add synopsis
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Don't pick up the Phone more

Cast

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Richard Chamberlain ... Nat Bridger
John Houseman ... Stanley Markowitz
Sara Botsford ... Ridley Taylor
Robin Gammell ... Noah Clayton
Gary Reineke ... Lt. Meara
Barry Morse ... Fred Waites

Alan Scarfe ... John Websole
James B. Douglas ... Jack Gilsdorf
Ken Pogue ... Fil Thorner
Neil Munro ... Winters
Jefferson Mappin ... Photographer
Tom Butler ... Detective Tamblyn
Colin Fox ... Dr. Alderman
Luba Goy ... Beth Freemantle

Lenore Zann ... Connie Lawson
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bells (Europe: English title) (video title)
Hell's Bells
The Calling
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Runtime:
79 min (re-edited American version) | Belgium:95 min (video version)
Country:
Canada | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada more

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[last lines]
Nat Bridger: I'll call ya!
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Don't pick up the Phone, 22 July 2001
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Author: mm-39 from Winnipeg

Well this Canadian stinker done by the Canadian film development corporation had a great concept. I remember watching this film, after I finished grade 11, with my dad, and I thought what a great concept. I think of all the movies I've forgotten over the years, and this film is burnt into my memory. Electrocute annoying people by the phone, this would be great for thoes annoying telemarketers who usually phone during dinner. Well, that's besides the point, like most of the Canadian Film development movies of that era this film has an ok concept, but lacks in budget or effects. I like the opening scene with the kids running in the subway, its a good mood setter. It has a great concept like Scaners, and it looks like it too could have been filmed in Monteral.

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