Cry for the Strangers (film)

In 1937, a young boy wakes up in the middle of the night and sees apparitions of Native Americans dancing on the beach before discovering his grandparents' bodies buried up to their heads in sand.Dr. Brad Russell (Patrick Duffy), a Seattle psychiatrist, and his wife Elaine (Cindy Pickett) move to a fishing town on the Pacific coast.A local fisherman, Riley (Jeff Corey), believes they are ghosts of the "storm dancers," a tribal sect that once performed executions by burying victims up to their necks in beach sand so that when the tide came in, they drowned.By coincidence, Robby Palmer (Shawn Carson), a hyperactive child Dr. Russell treated years before, is now normal and living with his family in the same town.Dr. Russell theorizes the storms triggered Whalen's traumatic childhood memories, leading him to re-enact their deaths by killing others.
John SaulPeter MedakPatrick DuffyDavid GerberJay DanielFrank StanleyMGM Televisionmade-for-televisionhorror filmbook of the same nameCindy PickettPacific coastJeff CoreyBrian KeithClaire MalisLawrence PressmanRobin IgnicoParley BaerMartin KoveNegativesA Day in the Death of Joe EggThe Ruling ClassThe Third Girl from the LeftGhost in the Noonday SunThe Odd JobThe ChangelingThe BabysitterZorro, The Gay BladeMistress of ParadiseThe Men's ClubThe KraysLet Him Have ItRomeo Is BleedingPontiac MoonThe HunchbackSpecies IIDavid CopperfieldThe WashingtoniansSex and Lies in Sin CityDating Game KillerThe Ghost of Peter Sellers