It!( 1967)

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Bullets can't kill it! Fire can't burn it! Water can't drown it! How can we destroy IT before IT destroys us?

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After a warehouse fire, museum director Grove and assistant Pimm find everything destroyed, only one statue withstood the fire mysteriously undamaged. Suddenly Grove is lying dead on the ground, killed by the statue? Pimm finds out that the cursed statue has been created by Rabbi Loew in 16th century and will withstand every human attempt to destroy it. Pimm decides to use it to his own advantage.

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Roddy McDowall
Arthur Pimm
Jill Haworth
Ellen Grove
Paul Maxwell
Jim Perkins
Aubrey Richards
Prof. Weal
Ernest Clark
Harold Grove
Oliver Johnston
Curator Trimingham
Noel Trevarthen
Insp. White
Ian McCulloch
Detective Wayne
Richard Goolden
The Old Rabbi
Dorothy Frere
Miss Swanson
John Baker
Guard
Alan Sellers
The Golem

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A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on Sun Feb 17 2019

***The original Terminator, but nowhere near as good*** A London museum acquires a Golem, an indestructible Hebrew statue originally created to protect the community. The assistant curator (Roddy McDowall) discovers how to control the thing but uses it for selfish, destructive purposes. You know what they say: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I've seen a few illustrations of Golems over the years where it looks very block-like (see Wikipedia), but none look like the Golem depicted in this film. Here it's pretty hideous and not block-like at all. Someone described i...