
Anthony Hopkins
Corky Withers/Fats (voice)
Ann-Margret
Peggy Ann Snow
Burgess Meredith
Ben Greene
Ed Lauter
Duke
E.J. André
Merlin
Jerry Houser
Cab Driver
David Ogden Stiers
George Todson
Lillian Randolph
Sadie
Joe Lowry
Club M.C.
Robert Hackman
Father
Mary Munday
Mother
Beverly Sanders
Laughing Lady
I.W. Klein
Maitre D'
Patrick McCullough
Doorman
Scott Garrett
Corky's Brother
Robert Cole
Pool Player (uncredited)
Valerie Hall
Woman in Line Outside of Nightclub (uncredited)
Norman Palmer
Audience Member (uncredited)




Released
en
$7,000,000.00
$23,800,000.00
- #based on novel or book
- #magic
- #telepathy
- #1970s
- #alter ego
- #ventriloquist
- #evil doll
- #dead body
- #madness
- #split personality
- #high school sweetheart
- #ventriloquist's dummy
- #ventriloquism
- #magician
- #psychological horror
Reviews

After a distinctly rocky solo start, “Corky” (Anthony Hopkins) has become quite a celebrated ventriloquist but that fame with “Fats” has come at a price. Indeed, it’s not always clear who has their hand up whom? In order to take a breather from all this lucrative adulation, and despite the insistence of his more venal agent “Greene” (Burgess Meredith), he seeks somewhere more remote to recharge hi

**_Anthony Hopkins as a schizophrenic magician and Ann-Margret the woman he loves_** A shy man finds success as a ventriloquist with his dummy “Fats,” but vacations in his hometown in the Catskills where he seeks to reunite with a high school friend. As his agent tries to find him, the woman's hubby might show up. Burgess Meredith and Ed Lauter play the latter two. “Magic” (1978) is a slow b

'We're gonna be star-arrrs.' — "Fats" It had been two weeks after seeing Phantasm that my family's weekly "Movie Date Night" continued on with the next film treat on our list: Magic, the Richard Attenborough directed psychological horror, in which the now legendary Anthony Hopkins stars as Charles "Corky" Withers, an aspiring magician and Ventriloquist, whom, "in partnership" with a profanity-












