Top Billed Cast

Bud Cort
Brewster
Sally Kellerman
Louise
Michael Murphy
Shaft
William Windom
Weeks
Shelley Duvall
Suzanne
René Auberjonois
The Lecturer
Stacy Keach
Abraham Wright
John Schuck
Johnson
Margaret Hamilton
Daphne Heap
Jennifer Salt
Hope
Corey Fischer
Hines
G. Wood
Crandall
Bert Remsen
Douglas Breen
Angelin Johnson
Mrs. Breen
Dean Goss
Officer Ledbetter
Gary Chason
Camera Store Clerk
William Baldwin
Bernard
William Henry Bennet
Band Conductor
Ellis Gilbert
Butler
Verdie Henshaw
Feathered Nest Sanatorium Manager
Robert Warner
Asst. Mgr. Camera Store
Keith V. Erickson
Professor Aggnout
Thomas Danko
Color Lab Man
W.E. Terry Jr.
Police Chaplain
Ronnie Cammack
Wendel
Dixie Taylor
Mgr. Tanninger's Nursing Home
Pearl Coffey Chason
Nursing Home Attendant
Amelia Parker
Nursing Home Manageress
Marilyn Burns
Tour Guide (uncredited)
Harvey Keitel
The Photographer (uncredited)

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A review by Brent Marchant

Written by Brent Marchant on Sun Jun 15 2025

Some movies simply defy description. So it is with this 1970 cult classic from director Robert Altman, a multifaceted offering that combines a diverse array of seemingly unrelated, but skillfully blended story threads that make for a quirky, thoroughly entertaining offering. In essence, this comical, surreal crime saga follows the investigation into a series of mysterious strangling deaths taking place in and around the Houston Astrodome, where the only clue is that the victims are covered in bird droppings. The primary suspect, Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort), is an ornithologically obsessed reclu...