Sandcastles (1972)

Director
Ted Post

Main cast
Herschel Bernardi; Bonnie Bedelia; Mariette Hartley; Gary Crosby; Loretta Leversee

Genres


Description
A young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman who tried to save him.


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