A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost his mind, or is something dark afoot ?

A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash.

诺曼（彼得·温贾德 饰）是一个大学教授，笃信科学，妻子谭茜（珍妮特·布莱尔 饰）却信仰巫术，某天他在家中发现了大量巫具并将其全部销毁，妻子称诺曼的同事对他充满恶意，这么做会失去对他人诅咒的防卫，诺曼起初并不相信，然而，怪事开始发生…

　　此片讲述二次大战期间，在英军驻北非的军营里，一名残暴的指挥官为维持个人自尊而故意用非人的刑罚来惩戒违犯军规者，终于使一位不甘被其虐待的军人挺身而出与之对抗。导演悉尼．卢曼特以火爆性十足的手法来处理这个 “人与制度对抗"的故事，压力逼人而来，肖恩．康纳利在此演出了他的最高水准，是悉尼．卢曼特的名作之一。但本片拍得相当乾涩，娱乐性亦不算太强。

这部影片改编自一部全球知名的小说《指环王》（The Lord of the Rings）。它出自名作家J.R.R. Tolkien之手，由三个各自独立而又相互关联的故事组成。这部小说至少已有1亿5百万人通读过，而浏览过的更是不计其数，可以说它是近100年来少有的一部经典巨作。近几十年来，这一故事曾多次被搬上银幕但均未获得较大的成功，只有1979年拍摄的动画版才获得了一点点好评。这部片子作为70年代的动画大作，画质算是比较不错了。其风格与迪斯尼自是大不相同，似乎有点中国水墨的影子。
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