When a Stranger Calls [Blu-ray]

Director: Fred Walton Fred Walton

Overview

In this thriller, a baby-sitter is terrorized by an anonymous telephone caller who turns out to be a particularly persistent serial killer. When a stranger calls to ask, "Have you checked the children lately?" teenaged sitter Jill Johnson (Carol Kane) is understandably spooked. After a series of increasingly creepy calls culminates in a request for "your blood...all over me," Jill learns from the police operator that the man is calling from inside the house. One narrow escape and two dead children later, the police capture British maniac Curt Duncan (Tony Beckley). Several years later, the killer escapes from a mental institution and plagues Tracy (Colleen Dewhurst), a hard-drinking New Yorker. Foiled by John Clifford (Charles Durning), the same cop who investigated the original case, Duncan sets his sights back on his original victim, Jill Johnson, who, now married and out to dinner with her husband, has left her own young children at home -- with a baby-sitter. When a Stranger Calls helped inspire Drew Barrymore's famous opening scene in Wes Craven's Scream. Kane, Durning, and director Fred Walton would return for 1993's TV-movie sequel, When a Stranger Calls Back. Beckley died a year after the original film's release.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/11/2020
UPC:	0683904633736
Original Release:	1979
Rating:	R
Source:	Sony Pictures Home
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:37:00
Sales rank:	12,397

Special Features

English SDH subtitles

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Carol Kane	Jill Johnson
Charles Durning	John Clifford
Colleen Dewhurst	Tracy
Tom Beckley	Curt Duncan,Curt Duncan
Rutanya Alda	Mrs. Mandrakis
Carmen Argenziano	Dr. Mandrakis
Kirsten Larkin	Nancy
Bill Boyett	Sgt. Sacker
Ron O'Neal	Lt. Charlie Garber,Mrs. Garber
Heetu	Houseboy
Rachel Roberts	Dr. Monk
Michael Champion	Bill
Joe Reale	Bartender
Ed Wright	Retired Man,Retired Woman
Dennis McMullen	Maintenance Man
Wally Taylor	Cheater
John Tobyansen	Bar Customer
Sarah Dammann	Bianca Lockart
Richard Bail	Stevie Lockart
Steven Anderson	Stephen Lockart
Lenora May	Sharon
Randy Holland	Maitre d'
Trent Dolan	Policeman
Frank DiElsi	Policeman
Arell Blanton	Policeman
DeForest Covan	Policeman
Charles Boswell	Policeman
Cheryl Wilson	Mrs. Shifrin
James Dooley	Composer
Dana Kaproff	Composer

Technical Credits

Steve Feke

Fred Walton

Jake Wade Wall

Doug Chapin	Producer
Steve Feke	Producer,Screenwriter
Barry Krost	Executive Producer
Melvin Simon	Executive Producer
Fred Walton	Director,Screenwriter
Jake Wade Wall	Screenwriter
Marty Bolger	Sound/Sound Designer