My Favourite Film / Block 4- units 10-12

"The Shining"

Jack Torrance arrives at the Overlook Hotel to interview for the position of winter caretaker, with the aim of using the hotel's solitude to work on his writing. The hotel is built on the site of a Native American burial ground and becomes completely snowed in during the long winters. As a result the Hotel is closed from November to May. Manager Stuart Ullman warns him that a previous caretaker developed cabin fever and killed his family and himself. Jack's son, Danny, appears to have ESP and has had a terrifying premonition about the hotel. Jack's wife, Wendy, tells a visiting doctor that Danny has an imaginary friend named Tony, and that Jack has given up drinking because he had hurt Danny's arm following a binge.

*Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance
*Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance
*Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance
*Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann
*Barry Nelson as Stuart Ullman
*Philip Stone as Delbert Grady
*Joe Turkel as Lloyd the bartender
*Tony Burton as Larry Durkin
*Lia Beldam as Young Woman In Bath
*Billie Gibson as Old Woman In Bath
*Barry Dennen as Bill Watson
*Lisa Burns as Grady Daughter #1
*Louise Burns as Grady Daughter #2