The Legacy (1978) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - November 11, 1979

The images from the TV spots for The Legacy that stuck in my memory were of a woman discovering that she has become trapped under the water in a swimming pool and a pair of withered, skeletal hands slipping a ring onto one of Katharine Ross's fingers. That is pretty much all I remember.

It was years later that I finally saw the film and, well, the swimming pool bit, Roger Daltry choking on a chicken bone, and those withered hands clasping and forcing an evil ring onto Katharine Ross's finger are all I remember about it. Well, there was also a nun, or nurse, that might also have been a cat. I think.

Three trivia things that I do know about The Legacy. 1 - this was movie where Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott met and fell in love. They married in 1984 and are still together. 2 - the script was written by Jimmy Sangster, who I know best for all the classic Hammer movies he wrote, as well as for penning one of the best Kolchak The Night Stalker episodes: Horror in the Heights. 3 - that director Richard Marquand when on to make bigger, better movies, like Return of the Jedi and Jagged Edge.