The Godsend (film)
| The Godsend | |
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| Directed by | Gabrielle Beaumont |
| Screenplay by | Olaf Pooley |
| Based on | The Godsend by Bernard Taylor |
| Produced by | Gabrielle Beaumont |
| Starring | Malcolm Stoddard Cyd Hayman Angela Pleasence Patrick Barr Wilhelmina Green Joanne Boorman |
| Cinematography | Norman Warwick |
| Edited by | Michael Ellis |
| Music by | Roger Webb |
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| Distributed by | The Cannon Group, Inc. |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.1 million |
| Box office | $1,650,000 |
The Godsend is a 1980 British horror film directed by Gabrielle Beaumont, written by Olaf Pooley, and starring Malcolm Stoddard, Cyd Hayman, Angela Pleasence, Patrick Barr, Wilhelmina Green, and Joanne Boorman. It follows a family who adopt an infant girl from a strange woman, only to find that, as they raise her, their other children begin to die in a series of mysterious accidents. It is based on the 1976 novel The Godsend by Bernard Taylor. The film was released in the United States on 11 January 1980 by The Cannon Group, Inc.