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Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>Magic (TCM) 1978 movie starring Anthony Hopkins as a magician / 
>ventriloquist who lets his dummy talk him into killing people.  I'm 
>pretty sure I never saw this before now, although I'm also pretty sure I 
>remember previously watching the scene where Hopkins manager (Burgess 
>Meredith) sees if he can keep the dummy silent for 5 minutes and Hopkins 
>fails miserably.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr3y5Q5vr8g

I saw this in theater as a kid. There were a number of similar movies
about ventriloquist dummies in that era in movies and literature (I read
the novel as well), an old horror trope that had gotten revived.