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The Return

Directed by Greydon Clark

MysteryThrillerScience Fiction

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations.

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Jan-Michael Vincent

Wayne

Cybill Shepherd

Jennifer

Niles Buchanan

Dr. Kramer

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The Return is about two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations.

Who directed The Return?

Greydon Clark directed The Return.

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